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标题: GWD, Questions about the use of "than" [打印本页]

作者: QingHuang 时间: 2007-10-27 21:28
标题: GWD, Questions about the use of "than"

Why is the answer is B, not A? Thanks a lot!

Q16:

Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it was in any previous election.

a greater proportion than it was
a greater proportion than
a greater proportion than they have been
which is greater than was so
which is greater than it has been

Answer: B, not A

why is the answer is D, not E?

Q32:

To develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.

have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic
have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economical
would have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economical
would have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economic
would have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic

Answer: D, not E

作者: QingHuang 时间: 2007-10-28 18:11

up,

Thanks for your help!

作者: chixigua 时间: 2007-10-28 19:15

16、it理论上应该指代Soaring television costs, 但是costs是复数, 应该用they

B选项其实是a greater proportion than （they were）in any previous election. 把they were省略了

32、they would have to do。。。than they do now 。。。

。。。than。。。必须要同等才能比较

do要和 do 比较

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作者: QingHuang 时间: 2007-10-28 21:14
thanks a lot for your explanations!

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