大全613一个想不明白的问题(本题讨论区没有)

613.     Sales of United States manufactured goods to nonindustrialized countries rose to $167 billion in 1992, which is 14 percent more than the previous year and largely offsets weak demand from Europe and Japan.

(A) which is 14 percent more than the previous year

(B) which is 14 percent higher than it was the previous year

(C) 14 percent higher than the previous year’s figure

(D) an amount that is 14 percent more than the previous year was

(E) an amount that is 14 percent higher than the previous year’s figure

排除ABD，在C和E中为什么是E呢？一个amount(数量)，逻辑上怎么可能高于一个数字(figure)，一个量和一个数字怎么可以互相比较呢？C做$167 billion的同位语，这个数字是可以和去年的数字比的。

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