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According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

1. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
2. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
3. minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
4. it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
5. it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

请NN们帮我分析一下这是什么用法？谢谢

nearly ... more, 没有 nearly ... as likely as 的。

在这里，前后是比较planning to practise in socioeconomically deprived areas, 所以B错，因为B没有提到minority graduates在什么方面上是other graduates的4倍。所以答案是A

to the best of my knowledge, I could not agree with lester's opinion

I think both "nearly 4 times more likely than" and "nearly 4 times as likely as" are correct use of it's respective phrase.  The reason why C is incorrect is because it's missing "are" after "as likely as"

moutain A is 3 times higher than is mountain B (or moutain B is)

moutain A is 3 times as high as is moutain B(or moutain B is)

both should work

please correct me if I am wrong.

我们不会说“和你一样接近4倍”，这话不合逻辑，”比你多接近4倍“会比较好吧。

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