大全10-补充250-T170

170./DQ17    A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago.

(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago

(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago平行错，用分词表示因果关系

(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago

(D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago（C）不定式的逻辑主语错

(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago in making表达错

A的it was省略了 因为比较的是状语 哪里不对了

查过以前的贴子http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=23&star=2&replyid=214802&id=28842&skin=0&page=1

没有说清

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1.        The rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than they are in national elections because they typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.

answer E

(E) The rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than they are in national elections because local elections typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.

把这道题的结构变换一下：

the construction industry’s economic health is (much )more robust than it was five years ago

和上面的结构就是一样的了。

这两道题和我以前总结的三道题都是一样的，比较的对象是主语，比较的是主语的一个特征，我把它称为主语的局部部分，在比较的时候，一般省略这个比较的局部部分，而保留比较对象，也就是说，把真正比较的那一部分省略了，余下的修饰限制部分不能省略，目的应该就是为了句意的清晰和表达的简洁。加上前面分析的三道题，一共有5道题了。也让我越来越确定ETS的这个prefer了。

leeon,请教总结的是哪三道题？

这和og132比较从句的主语和主句主语相同时可省两码事，是吧？

首先看这两题，比较的是主语的数量，所以省略了比较部分，而只保留了后面限制部分，这里我们把charge多少和enrolled的人数看成是对主语的限制部分，省略比较部分是因为不影响句意的情况下表达的简洁。

According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8000 a year as charge over $16000.

According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about as many as are enrolled in the nation’s four-year colleges and universities.

再看这道题，比较对象是主语，但是比较的是emit pollutants的量，后面同样省略了比较部分，而保留了主语部分限制说明是谁emit。

Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel

由以上三题我们不难看出ETS在比较的时候往往会省略比较部分，而保留对比较的限制部分，从而在不影响句意表达的前提下，保持了表达的简洁。

it was不能省略，省略的一个原则是省略前文出现过的内容，前面没有出现过be动词，所以不能省略it was.

另外，我觉得就算前文有出现，如果比较有时间跨度，也应该补出相应时态的动词。比如：

I earn more money than I did five years ago. 不能说I earn more money than five years ago. 否则，补出的形式是I earn more money than I do five years ago. 时态不符。

这点没有验证过，请大家指正。

198 Although Napoleon's army entered Russia with far more supplies than (it had )for any previous campaign ,it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

rhod: DPG198 it had 原文没有出现过 可是却省略掉了

上面的例子，补出的省略对么？

从with引导的介宾短语结构来看，than后面比较的对象应该是“对俄战役带的supplies”同“其它任何一次战役supplies”来比，所以认为it had是省略形式不行吧

A的歧义形式：

making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than (making...)five years ago

FYI:

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=36523&page=4

这题仍有疑问 请大家帮助看看

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