OG SC 251 旧题新问

米米时代007

OG251. 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

A, the best choice, uses a singular pronoun, its, to refer to the singular antecedent The gyrfalcon, and it properly uses the construction its numbers are now ... greater than. In B, the construction its numbers are ... more is not idiomatic: there are more birds, but not more numbers. Choices C and D use a plural pronoun, their or they, to refer to a grammatically singular antecedent, The gyrfalcon.

Choices D and E wrongly use a phrase introduced by now with to modify The gyrfalcon. In both choices, the phrase confusingly seems to parallel with extinction; a new clause with a present tense verb is needed to state what the gyrfalcon's numbers are now.
看了解释DE也不明白为什么with后不能修饰主语The gyfalcon--the numbers are possessed by "The gyrfalcon", aren't they?

livia2012

这道题是现在第二版verbal分册里面的70题

米米时代007

其实我认为这里numbers压根就是错的，应该是number.
Manhattan的Stacey也这么说...
毕竟不是OG题，不靠谱

就算楼上说是1,2,3,...这种
那也是number，不是numbers

The number of students is 50.
而不是 The numbers of students are 50.

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/2/5 13:49:43)

同学你说的都是the number of 这样的结构，我说的是its numbers这样的结构，是不一样的情况

-- by 会员 HateJapan (2012/2/5 14:16:58)

我明白你的意思，在prep08里有关于Numbers和number的详解。
the numbers就指的是好几个不同的Number就可以

HateJapan

其实我认为这里numbers压根就是错的，应该是number.
Manhattan的Stacey也这么说...
毕竟不是OG题，不靠谱

就算楼上说是1,2,3,...这种
那也是number，不是numbers

The number of students is 50.
而不是 The numbers of students are 50.

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/2/5 13:49:43)

同学你说的都是the number of 这样的结构，我说的是its numbers这样的结构，是不一样的情况

babybearmm

其实我认为这里numbers压根就是错的，应该是number.
Manhattan的Stacey也这么说...
毕竟不是OG题，不靠谱

就算楼上说是1,2,3,...这种
那也是number，不是numbers

The number of students is 50.
而不是 The numbers of students are 50.

HateJapan

正解应该是这样：这里的number不是“数量”，而是“个数”，是能够1,2,3,4...这样数下去的那种。
我们可以用反证法来证明：
倘若这里的number不是“个数”而是“数量”，则后面的five times greater than就不能解释了。
因为我们通常用的只能以单数形式出现的number，都不是用great形容，而是用large来形容的。

HateJapan

啊？可是这里也没说明白，为什么是its numbers而不是its number啊？原文确实是its numbers，而且所有的选项都是这么写的说明its numbers是正确的表达……

米米时代007

那个链接里面,ron说的意思是: ", now with ..." 那个now没有修饰对象
我们知道now是副词，需要修饰动词，假如说把now去掉，逗号后面的成分是 with+noun+noun modifier
根本不存在动词，所以now在逗号后面没有修饰对象。

另一个问题是with后那一串为什么不能修饰the g..?

-- by 会员 米米时代007 (2012/2/1 16:33:15)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/2/1 16:53:10)

嗯 就这么理解 谢谢！

米米时代007

在08prep语法笔记的58页有有关这道题的，是具体number的讲解

-- by 会员 crystal522 (2012/2/1 20:32:08)

是啊 我刚刚看到 也准备上来说呢 谢谢你~加油考个750 哈哈

crystal522

在08prep语法笔记的58页有有关这道题的，是具体number的讲解