GWD整体第一套的几个问题

Q16:Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it was in any previous election.

1. a greater proportion than it was
   
2. a greater proportion than比较错误
   
3. a greater proportion than they have been
   
4. which is greater than was so
   
5. which is greater than it has been

Choice C is incorrect, because been has no antecedent. Furthermore, if for 1992 the costs already accounted for more than half the spending, in an election that happened before that of 1992, it is impossible to use the perfect have been.

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Q1:

During her presidency of the short-lived Woman’s State Temperance Society (1852-1853), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as she was a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most ardent supporters in her suggestion that drunkenness should be made sufficient cause for divorce.

1. as she was a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most ardent supporters in her suggestion that drunkenness should be


2. as she was a staunch advocate for liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most ardent supporters by her suggestion of drunkenness being


3. in being a staunch advocate for liberalized divorce laws, had scandalized many of her most ardent supporters with the suggestion of drunkenness being


4. a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most ardent supporters by suggesting that drunkenness be


5. a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, she scandalized many of her most ardent supporters in suggesting that drunkenness should be

D 考点，同位语。除了should 和being，in和by的错误外，AB中as 引导从句为什么错？

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7．A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times in 1980.

1. that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times


2. that, on average, CEO’s now earn 419 times the pay of blue-collar workers, a ratio that compares to 42 times


3. that, on average, CEO’s now earn 419 times the pay of blue-collar workers, as compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio


4. CEO’s who now earn on average 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, as compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio


5. CEO’s now earning an average of 419 times the pay of blue-collar workers, compared to the ratio of 42 times

CEO’S加在这里什么用？省略了什么，CEO’s salary语义重复啊。

如果没有猜错，应该是ceos。因为后面用的是earn不是earns.而且ceo's如果表达的是薪水的意思，那么就不能用earn.因为薪水是被earn, 只有人才能赚取薪水。

Q16:

Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it was in any previous election.

1. a greater proportion than it was


2. a greater proportion than比较错误


3. a greater proportion than they have been


4. which is greater than was so
   
   



5. which is greater than it has been

DE which refers to spending, spending is greater was so(行为)错，E it refers to spending in the presidential campaign of 1992

A greater proportion 作什么的同位语？

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