易错题-为二战攒RP

　　断句比较，比较级在逗号后面还有

　　GWD1-Q16628)

　　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.

　　A. a greater proportion than it was

　　B. a greater proportion than

　　C. a greater proportion than they have been

　　D. which is greater than was so

　　E. which is greater than it has been

　　解题思路：断句比较中，重要的是弄清楚比较对象，此处的比较点是 a greater proportion than所以比较对象应该是half，“比例”和“比例”比较。

　　语意不对，排除D/E，C指代一个复数，比例是一个单数，排除。剩下A/B比较，明显如果than后面要加上it was(或其他结构)前面也必须要有一个相对应的结构。但是A明显前面没有be动词对应结构，剩下B。

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　　Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.

　　A. movies—less than those

　　B. movies—fewer than have been

　　C. movies, which is less than those

　　D. movies, a number lower than the people

　　E. movies, fewer than the ones

　　解题思路，less不对，应该用fewer，排除A/C;选择B，结构上更对称。

　　Employment costs rose 2.8 percent in the 12 months that ended in September, slightly less than

　　they did in the year that ended in the previous quarter.

　　(A) less than they did

　　(B) less than it did

　　(C) less than they were

　　(D) lower than

　　(E) lower than they were

　　解题思路：lower不对，排除D/E;剩下A/B/C，选B。costs rose less than they did

　　比较的平行。

　　Prep新-36

　　Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices of subject--the advances in modern surgery, the discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves--was as disturbing to his own time as it is compelling for ours.

　　(A) was as disturbing to his own time as it is

　　(B) were as disturbing to his own time as they are

　　(C) has been as disturbing in his own time as they are

　　(D) had been as disturbing in his own time as it was

　　(E) have been as disturbing in his own time as

　　解题思路：前面内容很多，谓语动词需要复数，排除A/C;as…as对称，选择B

　　Prep新-50

　　Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study indicate that the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely to result in depression than are those that boys experience.

　　(A) are those that boys experience

　　(B) what boys experience

　　(C) boys' experience would

　　(D) boys' stress patterns do

　　(E) stress patterns of boys

　　解题思路：对象1，the patterns of strss that girls experience are more likely than 对象2：the patterns of stress that boys experience are，选择A

　　98.

　　A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

　　(A) per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as

　　(B) annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that

　　(C) California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop

　　(D) California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that

　　(E) California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs

　　per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that

　　解题思路，为划线部分是个状语从句，主句肯定主语是California，排除A/B/C，

　　C. 逻辑主语是CA's annual per capita consumption…

　　D. 正确

　　E.per capita与per person重复

　　以上对GMAT语法-断句比较进行了较为详细的阐述，考生不妨以此为鉴，通过反复练习逐步掌握其在GMAT语法考试中的使用规律，从而在GMAT语法考试中发挥出更好的水平。