补充题 14

The earnings of women are well below that of men in spite of educational differences that are diminishing between the sexes.

(A) well below that of men in spite of educational differences that are diminishing

(B) much below that of men’s despite educational differences diminishing

(C) much below men in spite of diminishing educational differences

(D) well below those of men in spite of diminishing educational differences（D）

(E) below men’s despite their educational differences that are diminishing

题满简单，就是想问问well below和much below的区别。多谢了！

虽然无法给出一个令人满意的答复，但是我希望下面的例子能有所帮助。

OG补充38题，在much less和far less之间，ETS给出了偏好：Moreover, far is a better modifier of less expert than much is in A and C。虽然在OG250中我们也看到了much less这种用法（未划线部分），但是，我个人认为，ETS还是倾向于在表示‘增加的’意思时用much来修饰，比如：much more difficult ...；而在表示‘减少的’或负特征的词时避免用much来修饰。