GWD8-41新问!!

yangxuemei0111

我觉得D有两个错误,一是LESS不能修饰NUMBER; 二是one-quarter 后面应该有个of.

C中, there 指代drive-ins, that amount指代4000.把这些指代的名词都代入句子, C看上去就清楚了.

Icanw

支持A. 下面是google到的背景句子。大家把各项代入对照的话，就可以发现A是最佳选项。

At the height of their popularity in the late 1950's more than 4,000
of the country's 16,354 movie screens were at drive-ins. This year,
with the total number of screens exceeding 23,000, there are only 910
in drive-ins, according to the National Organization of Theater Owners.

对于 less 修饰不可数名词的概念，我想如果less后面紧跟一个数字的话，应该也可以用于可数名词。下面也是google 到的句子。

    

Today
        there are less
        than 60,000
Armenians in Turkey compared to at least 1.8 million in 1910.

yangxuemei0111

可是A中的than one-quarter that many也没有听说这样的说法呀.
我还是支持C啦.

joywu1221

Officila Answer is B

anyone could explain why it's B?

dongyintai

en

奕奕生辉

[quote]
Officila Answer is B
anyone could explain why it's B?

-- by 会员 joywu1221 (2009/1/6 12:37:00)

AS MANY可以指之前提到过的数字，是一个惯用法~~~