GWD 1-16，我错在哪儿啊？

Q16:

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.

1. a greater proportion than it was


2. a greater proportion than


3. a greater proportion than they have been


4. which is greater than was so


5. which is greater than it has been

答案是C，我选B。

我觉得C的问题是：首先，时态上有点牵强，感觉上用过去时应该比较好。另外，they在这里应该指代costs,那than从句的结构应该与前面平行。前面说的是costs accounted for，而than后面是用的be动词，不平行啊。

B选项可以看作是比较从句的省略形式，这种省略在OG198和251里可以找到类似的。

sorry, 前面没看清楚题目....cc

至于it指代proportion

再看了一遍, 倒觉的B好....(C)的they不能用来指代proportion; (A)的时态有问题......

why b? 版主能解释清楚一点嘛, 哪有关于这道题的讨论连接呀,

谢谢!

顶

我也没找到以前的讨论。试着解释解释，NN们看对不对：

than后面的从句补全了应该是：than the costs acccounted for in any previous election, 因此，如果要用代词和助动词，也应该是：than they did in any previous election. 这样，其它几个答案都有总题。而B，实际上可以看作是比较从句省略了主谓语，因为这里主谓语都与主句相同。这种例子在OG中有，如：

251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970’s.

(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than

(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than

(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were

(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had（A）

(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than