OG 89题

A recent national study of the public schools shows that there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were four years ago.

(A) there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were

(B) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were

(C) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were

(D) every thirty-two pupils now have one microcomputer, four times as many than there were

(E) every thirty-two pupils now has one microcomputer, four times as many as

我对答案C没有异议，我的问题是为什么在答案C里用four times as many as there were而不是there was呢？

"there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils"

讲的既是ratio, 也是number of computers, 看后面跟什么，从后面"four times as many as" 看出, 只能比较数量，又因为是there be句型, there were one-quarter as many computers four years ago as there are now, 所以只能用there were.

提问前就看过了，不过还是不明白啊。

同意X_TonY_X的见解,使我们对此题豁然开朗.谢谢!

there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils,(好像补全了后是there are) four times as many (computers now )as there were four years ago.除非极端情况,四年前只能1台,而现在有四台, 128个学生.但这也太凑巧了.

有这样的一种说法：老外数学不好，又懒得算，于是订下了一条规矩，如果不用计算,单复数一致，such as, there is one computer for, or there are two computers for；如果需要计算不论简单复杂，不管3721一律用复数，such as, four times as many as there were two years ago. Or there are now two computers for each group, two times as many as there are two years ago. 他们到是简单了可难坏数学好的XDJM了。

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