drive-ins和大白鲨 求解

我是一条鱼

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 one-quarter as many
C. there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount
D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount
E. it is less than one-quarter of that amount


Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.

a. movies—less than those
b. movies—fewer than have been
c. movies, which is less than those
d. movies, a number lower than the people
e. movies, fewer than the ones

please tell what r your answers? why?

我是一条鱼

我的答案是B & B

请NN们反驳我

z520m

答案不确定，建议去看讨论总汇

三脚猫

第一题我选Ｃ。Ｂ中B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many表达不妥，既然有了比较级fewer than和as many表达意思重复，并且也应该是as many as ...啊

第二题选Ａ。those指代people,killed by... 做those的定语。

我是一条鱼

看了部分讨论,但似乎也没有定论.

有几个争论重点:

1.less是不是只能修饰不可数名词? 或者说less管不可数,fewer管可数

2.number往上用greater, 那往下用什么来修饰? less? fewer? lower?

3.amount能否修饰和不可数名词一百年拉不到关系的drive-ins?

4.如果说number有指代不清的问题,那什么情况下可以用number?是不是有number必错?有没有OG的例题?

5第二题E选, 如果换成movies, fewer than those,会是正确答案吗?

最后我在网上查看了一下第一题的原文是关于什么美国腾飞的,原文里用的是there are....

所以我在ABC里挑了一个最没有可数不可数争议的B

z520m

B应该不对，这个as many代表什么呢？绝对有问题，gmat中没有这样的表达。有than,又有as many，怎么可能有这么繁琐无意义的表达？如果是B,那么这个one-quarter是什么的1/4？不是违背了原文的含义？所以应该是C

redyoyo

i don't think is B. "as many" is not right.

why is not D ?

钢琴123

https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/when-drive-ins-were-at-the-height-of-their-popularity-in-the-t6550.html

livingston9527

钢琴123 发表于 2016-6-29 11:11
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/when-drive-ins-were-at-the-height-of-their-popularity-in-t ...

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