In Scotland, the number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, by pollution, and by various other threats to the fish’s habitat.
number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting
number of wild salmon is reduced because deep-sea and coastal netting is not controlled
numbers of wild salmon has been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting
wild salmon’s numbers are reduced by deep-sea and coastal netting that is not controlled
E. wild salmon’s numbers have been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting.
A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force
(A)numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B)numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C)numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D)number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E)number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
这里的ABC选项用numbers of women，由于numbers of sth=a large number of sth，因而这里The plural numbers means a large crowd or multitude，while the singular number refers to a specific quantity of individuals．
但在这道题中，因为是用的wild salmon’s numbers，可以避免产生这样的歧义
所以，当做题中看到numbers of sth的时候要提高警惕，看是否会引起歧义；当遇到one’s numbers的时候也要想一下到底是指的a quantity还是形容一大群
作者: Howto 时间: 2009-3-4 17:16
B number of wild salmon is reduced because deep-sea and coastal netting is not controlled
其实B中还有一个错就是这个is,注意A and B 做主语且表示的是不同事物谓语动词要用are!
作者: 丫丫兔 时间: 2009-3-4 18:48
以下是引用Howto在2009-3-4 17:16:00的发言：
B number of wild salmon is reduced because deep-sea and coastal netting is not controlled
其实B中还有一个错就是这个is,注意A and B 做主语且表示的是不同事物谓语动词要用are!
deep-sea 和coastal都是修饰 netting的啊../.所以不是are,是is
作者: vivian0331 时间: 2009-4-22 00:44
这道题总觉得wild salmon’s numbers 别扭，为什么不是the number of wild salmon呢？如果不考虑后面by平行的问题，这里是否可以用the number of的结构呢？
作者: 双鱼游 时间: 2010-9-26 11:36
以前遇到the numbers 经常是错的，这个题注重考平行对称，那number只能解释为不同种类的数量，所以用复数 比如这道题 When the technique known as gene-splicing was invented in the early 1970's, it was feared that scientists might inadvertently create an "Andromeda strain," a microbe never before seen on Earth that might escape from the laboratory and it would kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it.
(A) it would kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it (B) it might kill vast numbers of humans with no natural defenses against it (C) kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it (D) kill vast numbers of humans who have no natural defenses against them (E) kill vast numbers of humans with no natural defenses against them 答案是C BEATTHEGMAT论坛的解释是 Hey guys
So, technically "THE numbers of" or "A numbers of" is wrong - that whole thing, including the article in front, not just "numbers of." You can have "numbers of" without those articles, as in the example at the top of the thread.
(You can also, technically, have "the numbers of" if you are literally talking about multiple numbers - eg, two players have the numbers 7 and 13 on their jerseys, and I say "the numbers of the jerseys are 7 and 13." But that kind of set-up would be very unusual on this test.)
Also, remember that there's almost always an obscure exception to any rule you can think of. Annoying, but true. ("Being" is not always wrong either - it's just almost always wrong on the GMAT.) Because of the frequent, obscure exceptions, we should mostly just worry about the most likely / primary rules.作者: 双鱼游 时间: 2010-9-26 11:43
再贴一道，大家归纳到一起 New Jersey's is one of the five highest number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States. D (A) New Jersey's is one of the five highest number of reported (B) New Jersey's is one of the five highest numbers in reporting (C) New Jersey has a report of one of the five highest numbers of (D) New Jersey has one of the five highest numbers of reported (E) New Jersey reports one of the five highest number of作者: 双鱼游 时间: 2010-9-26 11:44
还是beatthegmat论坛一位instructor的对上题的解释 In that other thread, I said that you can say "the numbers of" in the rare circumstance that you are literally talking about multiple, different numbers. And that's exactly what we're talking about here. Construct a scenario to illustrate:
New Jersey has 10 reported cases New York has 14 reported cases Hawaii has 9 reported cases Maine has 12 reported cases Michigan has 8 reported cases.
There are five numbers: 8, 9, 10, 12, and 14. If I tell you these are the five highest (of all of the states), then New Jersey's number (10) is among the five highest numbers. Make sense?
