标题: 请教885-补充250-101 [打印本页] 作者: dansy 时间: 2004-2-24 18:22 标题: 请教885-补充250-101 The speculative fever of the Roaring Twenties infected rich and poor alike; vast quantities of people were dangerously overextended, credit was absurdly seasy to obtain, and most brokerage house required only ten percent cash for stocks bought on "margin".
(A) rich and poor alike; vast quantities of people were dangerously overextended
(B) both rich and poor alike; large amounts of people dangerously overextended themselves
(C) rich and poor alike; great numbers of people were dangerously overextended
(D) both rich and poor alike; vast amounts of people dangerously overextended themselves
(E) both rich and poor; great quantities of people were dangerously overextended
答案是C？ 请问这题考点是什么？(如果是考修饰可数不可数，请再看下题)。 还有就是rich and poor alike, both rich and poor, both rich and poor alike的用法是什么？
另一题是新东方补充材料语法第44题：
The commission acknowledged that no amount of money or staff memebers can ensure the safety of people who live in the vicinity of a nuclear plant, but it approved the installation because it believed that all reasonable precautions had been taken.
(A) no amount of money or staff members
(B) neither vast amounts of money nor staff members
(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members
(D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff
(E) no matter how large the staff or how vast amount of money
答案是D。我想请问C的错误在哪里呢？上题可以用numbers of 修饰people, 这题为何不可以用numbers of 修饰staff members? 谢谢！
作者: ecsniffer 时间: 2004-2-24 19:52
顶！
搜了半天也没有收到以前讨论的贴子
这么一大堆量词怎么区分呀
补充101为什么不选A呢？
作者: dansy 时间: 2004-2-25 10:31
UP!作者: ios 时间: 2004-2-25 11:05
stuff members 语义重复。作者: Chamao 时间: 2004-2-25 11:15
除了staff是集合名词，等于staffmembers, 我觉得还有不能直接用“numbers” of staff members，查过字典只有a number of或常考的the number of, （longman)作者: dansy 时间: 2004-2-25 12:03
谢谢楼上两位。
碴猫猫，新东方老师也曾经这么说过关于“a number of或常考的the number of”的问题。但是101题答案中就是用的numbers of 来修饰people啊？ 郁闷。。。
作者: Chamao 时间: 2004-2-26 15:55
以下是引用dansy在2004-2-25 12:03:00的发言： 谢谢楼上两位。
碴猫猫，新东方老师也曾经这么说过关于“a number of或常考的the number of”的问题。但是101题答案中就是用的numbers of 来修饰people啊？ 郁闷。。。
A number of + plural n--> plrual verb ex. A number of boys go to..
The number of+ plural n--> Singular verb ex The number of boys is increasing~~
But I have checked in collin. Longman, there is no numbers of 来修饰!!! I think ETS make a mistake!! Forexample, dioxin is uncountable, but why use many? (one of the question in OG) And there is no such word "dioxins" though some would explain dioxins as different types of dioxin??
作者: mumuwa 时间: 2004-7-1 17:24
(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members (D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff 我觉得C和D的差异在于并列结构的对称和完整，C里 vast amounts of money和 numbers of staff members是不够成对称的，因为后者缺少量的修饰语，而因为money和staff又分别是不可数和可数名词，要求不同的修饰语（就像你举的例子great numbers of people也须有great来修饰numbers的），所以D的结构就很漂漂啦。作者: hallieJJ 时间: 2009-10-9 13:45
新东方赵丽的分析是： 整体不是对个体
staff membetrs 是个体概念 a large staff是整体概念
money是不可数名词，显然不能理解成个体 所以(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members (D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff
