[讨论]感觉真题4的答案A中的第二个are多余

mzyzhu

感谢小按提供最新真提和答案。但是感觉语法低4 题正确答案值得商榷。先看一下4题
4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

答案选择位A. 因此简化就是：
graduates A are 4 times more likely than graduates B are in doing something.

感觉are在那别扭，不解？ 前面也有人就此发问。
http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=14527

但是解释不太令人信服。现在说一下个人意见，感觉答案A中的第二个are 多余。从885中没有找到一提将第二个be动词补出的情况，但却找到2提在逻辑上类似，但都没有在第二个人称名次前/后补出be动词。请看：

Section 4/11. Several studies have found that the coronary patients who exercise most actively are at least fifty percent less likely than those who are sedentary to die of a heart attack.

简化：patients A are 50% less likely than patients B to die of a heart attack

补充250/60. Studies show that young people with higher-than-average blood pressure whose families have a history of high blood pressure are more likely than others to develop a severe form of the condition.

简化：people A are more likely than peole B to develop a condition

从语感的的角度，A is xxx time more/less likely than B to do something比较顺畅。由于more likely than和 as likely as 在表达上都可以接受，（当然表示的倍数前者比后者多一倍）。感觉C应该比较好。

希望听一听其他高手的意见。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-16 3:00:08编辑过]

braveMBA

谈谈我的观点：
1. four times 后跟more...than比较符合习惯. twice/fourfold as比较常见。

2. 我理解句意是"A在做某个方面的事情四倍于B在做某个方面的事情"，比较的FOCUS是在做事情上，不是在A和B的属性上，（因为是ARE，所以要考虑是不是属性）所以补出ARE是最好的。

merlion

就象小安说的， “ARE在此处不算错”。但没有ARE也不算错。

到市“A are four times more likely than (are) B in doing"有点别扭。我觉得“A are four times more likely than (are) B to do" 更常见些。

iamweng

likely to do sth 是习惯用法,C 要好些