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1.        Today’s technology allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their production history.

(A) small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their

(B) small cars that are more fuel-efficient than they were at any time in their

(C) small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in

(D) more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in their（C）

(E) more fuel-efficient small cars now than at any time in

理解别的答案是错的.

但是这个that 的定语从句为什么也可以比较呢? 怎样还原呢?

Today’s technology allows manufacturers to make small cars (that are more fuel-efficient ) than those at any other time in production history.

如此断句：

1.Today’s technology allows manufacturers to make  small cars.

2. Small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in production history.

that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in production history 是限定 small cars 的。

that 指的是 small cars, 补全后便为

Small cars are more fuel-efficient than small cars at any other time in production history

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想了一下, 自己给自己答了.

其实是这样.

small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in = more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in

但是more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in 有歧义, 所以就变成了这种that的写法. 可以肯定一点, that 不是指small cars, 因为如果要, 也应该用those.

觉得英文真的很多东西很难掌握.

有异议的人请分享.

From Stanford 校长的就职演说：

..., we are perhaps better poised now to build on the accomplishments of the past than at any other time in our history.

From 白宫发言：

More Americans now own their own homes than at any time in our history,

so, E.