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16. Los Angeles has a higher number of family dwellings per capita than any large city.
(A) a higher number of family dwellings per capita than any large city
(B) higher numbers of family dwellings per capita than any other large city
(C) a higher number of family dwellings per capita than does any other large city
(D) higher numbers of family dwellings per capita than do other large cities
(E) a high per capita number of family dwellings, more than does any other large city

答案是C。

不明白的是，这里是数字的比较，但a number of本身是有特别意思的，等于many呀～

还有一道number的题，答案是D，C怎么错了呢？可以讲讲numbers of的用法吗？谢谢！

19.The commission acknowledged that no amount of money or staff members can ensure the safety of people who live in the vicinity of a nuclear plant, but it approved the installation because it believed that all reasonable precautions had been taken.
(A) no amount of money or staff members
(B) neither vast amounts of money nor staff members
(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members
(D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff
(E) no matter how large the staff or how vast the amount of money

16.Choice A is illogical because it implies that Los Angeles is not a large city. Choice B emends this problem by specifying any other large city, but the plural numbers is incorrect in that there is only a single number of such dwellings. Choice C is best. The plural numbers is again wrong in choice D, which in addition fails to establish that Los Angeles exceeds all other large cities in family dwellings per capita. Choice E is wordy and very awkward. This question is of middle difficulty.

19.

In choice A, amount of … staff members is incorrect; amount properly refers to an undifferentiated mass, as in the case of money. Choice B does not make clear whether vast amounts is supposed to describe money only or money and staff members, and in choice C it is not certain whether vast modifies amounts only or amounts and numbers. Choice D is best. Choice E cannot fit grammatically into the original sentence because it supplies no noun that can function as a subject for the verb can. This question is a little more difficult than the average.

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我的想法：

的确A NUMBER OF 表示很多，那要是用HIGHER表多，又用A NUMBER OF 表示很多，不是重复了吗. 这里比较的是PER CAPITA的“家庭居住人数”的这个数字的大小，这里的HIGHER NUMBERS OF 我想不是NUMBERS OF 的用法，而是HIGHER 修饰NUMBERS，然后用OF来说明，是什么的NUMBERS.

^0^谢谢jnlvo和flowerrainn

16题的number就是指数字的意思，不是a number of当many讲。

19题说c错在vast是否修饰menbers的不确定性上，看来我只能死记了，neither nor的平行结构，修饰成分怎么能串呢？也就是neither A nor B，如果A前面有修饰成分，而B前面没有，那A的修饰成分就可能修饰B？这里就是要考vast不能修饰可数名词吧，如果vast能修饰可数名词，串了也没关系吧。

BTW：jnlvo的ETS解释在哪能找到？我在大全里没搜索到这道题的解释