两道XDF语法题（手敲的也），加上885最后真题4

john1388

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

I support A.

Pls substitute " four times as 100%":

(A) minority graduates are nearly 100% more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice

(C) minority graduates are nearly 100% as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

A is perfect, but C is comfused!

2. "plan to practice" is better than "plan on practicing".

ippohsu

以下是引用john1388在2003-11-4 4:55:00的发言：
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

I support A.

Pls substitute " four times as 100%":

(A) minority graduates are nearly 100% more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice

(C) minority graduates are nearly 100% as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

A is perfect, but C is comfused!

2. "plan to practice" is better than "plan on practicing".

看了前面好多人的討論....我想提出ㄧ個看法..請各位nn指教

這題用比較級...是否因為nearly...如同og5

A和B只差在一個原級一個比較級

5.     Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.

(A) as old as any of their supposed

(B) older than any of their supposed

(C) as old as their supposed

(D) older than any of their supposedly（B）

(E) as old as their supposedly

hpp920

讨论的很精彩! 牛牛们有结论了吗?

dreamerps

GEMJ说选C就选C吧~

yingmin0601

开始我也是选C，后来用GOOGLE SERCH了一下，有FOUR TIMES MORE 的用法，没有SERCH到 FOUR TIMES AS， 另 有LIKELY IN SOMETHING， 没有 PLAN ON DOING ，so THE CORRECT CHOICE IS A

XUANYA2005

你正是不会省力啊，那个字典来查好了，保证你能找到plan on doing sth, be likely to do sth.

而你那个four times more 和four times as 根本不是一个固定的，也许你可以试试five times as。