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1.        In Holland, a larger percentage of the gross national product is spent on defense of their coasts from rising seas than is spent on military defense in the United States.

(A) In Holland, a larger percentage of the gross national product is spent on defense of their coasts from rising seas than is spent on military defense in the United States.

(B) In Holland they spend a larger percentage of their gross national product on defending their coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military defense.

(C) A larger percentage of Holland’s gross national product is spent on defending their coasts from rising seas than the United States spends on military defense.

(D) Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product defending its coasts from rising seas than the military defense spending of the United States.（E）

(E) Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on defending its coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military defense.

请看ETS怎么说：

Since In Holland modifies all of the sentence that follows, A states confusedly that Holland spends a percentage of its gross national product on military defense in the United States.

可是请看下面，大全386：

1.        In Japan elderly people are treated with far greater respect than most Western countries.

(A) most Western countries

(B) most Western countries do

(C) most Western countries are

(D) they do in most Western countries（E）

(E) they are in most Western countries

按照上一题的说法，日本的THEY跑到米国去了呀。

这ETS也忒损了吧

偶觉得elderly people是泛指老年人，所以在这里没有问题。

如果前面用的是Japan's elderly people，则是“日本的THEY跑到米国去了”。

我的管见：384than前面说了GDP，所以受In Holland限（即GDP of Holland），than前后主语从逻辑上讲肯定不同（因为所在国家不同）所以than后面一定要补出主语，但把“a larger percentage of the gross national product ”换成"a larger percentage of the NATO budget"就不受In Holland限了，根据不同的意义than后面主语可省(nato花银子)可不省（老米花银子）。

当然，窃以为386似乎用those比they更好一些

怎么双重原则了呢？

偶上面的解释就是说明它们的区别呀？

第一题，In Holland, 状语位于句首修饰整个句子。

第二题，由于elderly people是一个泛指概念，所以E选项的比较对象是（在日本的）老年人和（在西方国家的）老年人。they 仅指代老年人。

嗯，同意，嘻嘻

哪儿都有elderly people

不知从这个角度理解是否正确：

在第一题里，“In Holland，”（注意有逗号）是修饰整个句子的，后面句子的内容都在这个“In Holland”的管辖下。

第二题：In Japan后面没逗号，不是修饰整个句子，只是补充说明elderly people的。其实句子的顺序也可以变成 Elderly people in Japan are treated with far greater……。

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