Most of the country’s biggest daily newspaper had lower circulation in the six months from October 1995 through March 1996 than a similar period a year earlier.
A. a similar period
B. a similar period's
C. in a similar period
D. that in a similar period
E. that of a similar period
OG758:Prices at the producer level are 1.3 percent higher now than those of a year ago. 这句话OG说是对的,而than a year ago就是错的,因为将price和时间作比较。
但是到了OG775:Total fat is less in wild animals than that of livestock。 这句又是错的,OG说应该是in wild animals 和in livestock平行。所以这句到底是错在that多余了,还是错在介词in/of呢?这里没有提到that的指代性问题。
我是不是可以理解为:
当比较的部分是介词时(in xxx year / of xxx),前面的noun可以省略;而普通状语(a year ago)就不可以呢?
OG758:Prices at the producer level are 1.3 percent higher now than those of a year ago. ...
我觉得主要还是比较的两者是否是同样的东西:
OG758: 两个比较对象应当是prices at producer level和those (指代prices)。如果去掉those of,句子变成Prices at the producer level are 1.3 percent higher now than a year ago. 比较对象变成了prices和a year ago。因此不对
OG775:比较对象应该是total fat in wild animals和total fat in livestock。我个人倾向应该是Total fat is less in wild animals than that in livestock,并不确定是否符合OG答案。这个题应该和OG758一个考点,都是比较的平行结构,指代问题没有什么歧义。
When I said 85%, it was only a crude and conservative approximation (personally I would say almost 100%)....The rest 15% or less you really need to determine case by case...