The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.
(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had (E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than作者: lovelyguys 时间: 2010-1-8 02:18
number表示数量是，可以用great/small等形容，表示这个数量的大或小，而不能用more/less，“多/少”来形容。特别是此处使用了复数numbers，如果用more来形容，可以造成歧义：number这个事物的数量变“多”了。也就是说，原来有3个numbers，现在有5个，这显然是不合逻辑的。句子要表达的意思是，这些数量变“大”了，因此要使用greater作者: ARCHER420 时间: 2010-1-8 07:40
over, thanks