[原创]大全317 [补充-030]--希望这能给这道题最终定论

317.      Freedman’s survey showed that people living in small towns and rural areas consider themselves no happier than do people living in big cities.

(A) no happier than do people living

(B) not any happier than do people living

(C) not any happier than do people who live

(D) no happier than are people who are living（A）

(E) not as happy as are people who live

一直以来这道题似乎都存在争论，到底要表达的是consider的比较，还是happy的比较。和很多朋友一样，我开始也选的是E，而且看了很多NN的解释之后似乎还是不能完全信服。所以我特地问了一个美国的native speaker。他给我的解释让我豁然开朗。所以借花献佛，希望能帮到跟我有同样困惑的XDJM们。

A is actually correct as-is. You could insert "to be" before "no happier than..." to make it clearer. It would be: "Freedman’s survey showed that people living in small towns and rural areas consider themselves [to be] no happier than do people living in big cities".

The sentence suggests that the reader may assume or believe (because living in a small town is envisioned as more peaceful, innocent, romantic, etc.) that people living in small towns and rural areas are happier than their (stressed-out, hurried, etc.) city-dwelling counterparts, but that in fact, Freedman's survey showed that they (the people living in the small towns and rural areas) do not believe or consider that they are any happier than those in the big cities.

所以，可以看出native speakers一看句子，就可以清楚地知道作者到底要表达什么意图。但这对我们来说，则需要长期文化的积累。那么单从语法上怎么排除掉E呢？我在摆脱了对原意的固有思维之后，发现E是有明显语法错误的。

E应改为：

Freedman’s survey showed that people living in small towns and rural areas consider that they are not as happy as are people who live in big cities.

只有这样are people中的are 才是用来修饰happy而不是consider。当然句子未划线部分是不能改的，所以，无论是从句意和语法上讲，A is the best！

我看的几个语法点:

1,consider sb sth

2,no比not any 要好,这点在OG上讲过,剩下AD选项比较

3,比较结构前后分句必需完全一致,前面是LIVING,后面也只能是LIVING,答案就是A了.

4,THAN后面比较结构中谓语用do,是用助动词代替实意动词consider,同时主谓倒装的一种省略结构.

其实这里只要用2,3点分析就可以出来了.

eaglesmile的解释is great.

助动词补出时前面一定要有指代的对象，E中的are在前文中没有可指代的对象。

而eaglesmile修改后的E选项使得are有了指代的对象：

Freedman’s survey showed that people living in small towns and rural areas consider that they are not as happy as are people who live in big cities.

也就是说，你表达两种不同的比较都可以，而具体要表达哪一种比较，就选择哪一个助词。

比较consider就选用A。比较are happier就选用修改后的E选项。