two questions

Despite the recent election of a woman to the office of prime minister, the status of women in Pakinstan is little changed from how it was in the last century.

A is little changed from how it was

B. is a little changed from how it was

C, has changed little

D. has changed little from how it has been

E. is little changed from the way it was

The answer is C. But I think has changed little cann't match with in the last centruy. It should be has changed little since/ from the last century.

Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one, they are much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and fakes.

A. much less exper in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and

B. far less expert in distinguishing good paintings form poor ones, authentic art from

C. much less expert when it comes to distinguish good paintings and poor ones, authentic art form

D far less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and

E far less the expert when in comes to distinguish between good paintings, poor ones, authentic art, and

The answer is B. I think A is better than B.

But the sentence can't match the rules of using distinguish

1.sb. distinguish between A1 and A2

2.a feature/character distinguishing A1 from A2.

From this rule, it seems there is no correct answer.

1－has changed in the last century表达的是到现在为止，前一个开始的一段时间，所以用现在完成时是合理的。

2－本题中你提到的两条标准很正确，但是对于第二条还有个补充，那就是sb也能引导 distinguish A from B；另外，通过对所有相关正确答案的比较发现，much这个词通常用于表达‘正’这个概念的修饰，比如：much more / much better等等，而一般不用于表达‘负’这个概念的修饰，例如此句。

另：建议Qiongwang01最好能在以后的帖子中标明题目的出处，以便后人查阅和本区管理人员归整，谢谢！

Thanks

But lots of people said " the situation is much worse than before.  I feel conservative about the words -much这个词通常用于表达‘正’这个概念的修饰，比如：much more / much better等等，而一般不用于表达‘负’这个概念的修饰