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wishwill

According to analysts, an alliance between three major personal computer companies and most of the nation’s largest local telephone companies would enable customers to receive Internet data over regular telephone lines with speeds much higher than is currently possible.

A.      with speeds much higher than is

B.      with speeds that are much higher than are

C.      at much higher speeds as are

D.     at much higher speeds than that

E.      at speeds much higher than are

答案是E，are的主语是什么啊？

When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950’s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

A.      there are less than one-quarter that many

B.      there are fewer than on-quarter as many

C.      there are fewer than on-quarter of that amount

D.     the number is less than one-quarter the amount

E.      it is less than one-quarter of that amount

答案是C，不太明白fewer和amount都是修饰什么？

请nn指点

菁菁

According to analysts, an alliance between three major personal computer companies and most of the nation’s largest local telephone companies would enable customers to receive Internet data over regular telephone lines at speeds much higher than are currently possible. ARE前省略了SPEED

大全里类似的考题有：

In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil war,…, four times as many Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of N. (would 前省略Americans)

Companies in the U.S are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about as many as are enrolled in the nation’s four-year colleges and universities.( are前省略 people)

When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950’s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are fewer than on-quarter of that amount.

fewer drive-ins

that amout- some 4000(some表示大约）

wishwill

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