【揽瓜阁语法打卡小分队】Day179

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11.GWD-26-Q17
Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth.
C.astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to.
D.astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will.
how likely will be 意思明显更错，to do /for doing不是这题关键

DonkeyG

4.GWD17-Q18:
Over the course of the eighteenth century,the average output of ironwork tripled as a result of several improvements inblowing machinery and because coal replaced charcoal as the fuel used in thesmelting of iron ore.
A.Over the courseof the eighteenth century, the average output of ironwork tripled as a resultof several improvements in blowing machinery and because coal replaced charcoalas the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore.
B.Over the course of the eighteenth century a triplingin the average output of ironwork was due to the replacement of charcoal bycoal for the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore, in addition to severalimprovements in blowing machinery.
C.Withcharcoal’s being replaced by coal as the fuel used in the smelting of iron oreand several improvements in blowing machinery, the average output of ironworktripled over the eighteenth century.
D.The replacement of charcoal with coal for thefuel used in the smelting of iron ore and several improvements in blowingmachinery, the average output of ironwork tripled over the eighteenth century.
E.Charcoal being replaced by coal as the fuelused in the smelting of iron ore, and several improvements in blowingmachinery, which tripled the average output of ironwork over the course of theeighteenth century.

A错选C， by using 'with', the sentence C fails to tell us the logic relationship between the 'improvements of techniques' and 'tripling of iron output'，但A也真的很怪。。

8.GWD-8-Q41:
When drive-ins were at the height of theirpopularity in the late 1950’s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, buttoday there are less than one-quarter that many.
A.there are less than one-quarter that many.
B.there arefewer than one-quarter as many.
C.thereare fewer than one-quarter of that amount.
D.the number is less than one-quarter theamount.
E.it is less than one-quarter of that amount.

Countable:many, several, one, two, each, every, a number of, few
Non-Countable: less, amount, much, hardly any,great,

所以选B而不是C，错选了C