GWD-8-Q41 中国人很难作对的一题

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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

Ans: A

今天无意间看了Erin的帖，发现原来分数的量词要用不可数名词。我也已将less than one-quarter这样的词组在NYTimes验证，果然是这样用。


Anyway, what you want to know: yes, you are right that we generally use non-count modifiers (less, amount, much, etc.) when we are referring to percentages and fractions, even when those numbers refer to count nouns.
The concept behind this is that we are focusing on the number itself,
not on the things the number represents. And this case would be no
exception.

附上连结

http://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentence-correction/12444-two-sentence-corrections-sentencecorrection-com.html

以上供叁考

ricee

我看的答案怎么是C呀？如果象LZ得到的那样解释，修饰重点在于%或分数可以用LESS而非可数的FEWER，那么请问D有什么问题呢？

哦，看了连接了，Also, D and E are awkward or wordy, in addition to the some other problems.
So, let's address the last part of the underline--many or amount. In this case, since we are referring to a count noun, drive-ins, we should use a count modifier, many or number.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-2 23:03:27编辑过]

leogm

我看到的答案也是C，不过看了Erin的解释，开始赞同A了。

想讨论一下下面这道题，如果答案选B，可以有这样的省略？

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

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fewer後面省了people的

latuan1982

我觉得C挺好的。A可以硬说的通，还是C顺阿。。。

leogm

C中which指代不明，从逻辑上应该是seven people；而且谓语is肯定不对

vivianclr

c is wrong

search for "than one-quarter of that amount" in NY times.

1.He said he hoped the United States would pledge about $10 billion a year, more than one-quarter of the amount the committee said would be needed from donor ...

2.On the basis of the pending bill Federal taxes will take much less than one-quarter of that amount, and Federal and State taxes combined will take less than ...

3.WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. -- The bank deposits of the people of the United States aggregate $8,300,000,000, an average of $108 per capita. Ten years ago they aggregated $4,232,700,000, or just half the amount of to-day, and twenty years ago they were $2,600,000,000, or a little more than onequarter of those of to-day.

4.He said he hoped the United States would pledge about $10 billion a year, more than one-quarter of the amount the committee said would be needed from donor ...

5.As such it stood in stark contrast to a grievously one-sided House bill that provided $27 billion in incentives for the oil, gas and coal industries and less than one-quarter that amount for efficiency.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-8-28 13:09:58编辑过]

lovebing

以下是引用vivianclr在2008-8-28 12:12:00的发言：

c is wrong

search for "than one-quarter of that amount" in NY times.

5.As such it stood in stark contrast to a grievously one-sided House bill that provided $27 billion in incentives for the oil, gas and coal industries and less than one-quarter that amount for efficiency.

根据该例句，这么说D是正确答案了？

google里面几乎没有"less than one-quarter that many"

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-9-13 4:07:03编辑过]

vivianclr

以下是引用lovebing在2008-9-13 3:59:00的发言：

根据该例句，这么说D是正确答案了？

google里面几乎没有"less than one-quarter that many"

我選D, 清楚没有歧义．

其他感觉都不太对．

fightbear

He was tired enough to make ten errors in as many (=in ten) pages.

他疲倦得十页中犯了十个错误。