GWD-8-Q41 中国人很难作对的一题

nemo11

以下是引用AlienX在2009-3-10 1:08:00的发言：
prep1:81. In the major cities of industrialized countries at the end of the nineteenth century, important public places such as theaters, restaurants, shops, and banks had installed electric lighting, but electricity was in less than one percent of homes, where lighting was still provided mainly by candles or gas.

根據nemo的意思, 数字的大小用less, 可是我沒看出homes是有數字的大小的含意...反而有多少的含意(one percent of homes).

umm...可能我沒看懂nemo的意思.

AlienX斑斑，可能我没有说清楚。

我说的数字(如4000是个数字)指的是number这个词，正如D里the number作主语，用less是对的。但是表示数量多少（如4000个drive-ins）用fewer来修饰，例如A里 其实少了一个of，many修饰前边的那个数，表示有1/4那么多，是表示有多少，也就是说数量的问题，而不是数的问题。看D里the number作主语，就是说这个数怎么怎么样，而不是由多少数量。不知道解释清楚了没有。

你举的这个例子 less than 修饰数字one percent（electricity was in.....homes）同样适用。

aeoluseros

以下是引用fighting127在2009-3-10 10:58:00的发言：

A. there are less than one-quarter that many
应该还是主要在于that many---unidiomatic的错误 后面的看理解了 1/4是修饰drive-ins

本来满倾向aeoluseros斑竹对less和fewer的解释 但想了一下我觉得这里B是以there are开头 表示的是有... 所以没有体现出比较的意思 open to discuss

但是还是给我们提了一个醒 要注意这种修饰语的不同

我这个题目也解释不清楚 继续学习大家的讨论

umm..怎么说呢，there are是在比较结构之外，与该比较无关的. 如果如你所说，1-81的句子也不是比较了，而只是说明了一个比例.

aeoluseros

umm..nemo,我觉得就纯D选项不看未划线部分来说是没有问题的the number is less than one-quarter the amount.one-quarter做为形容词/限定词来修饰the amount，中间并没有缺少of.但是amount的指向就错了:4000 drive-ins是可数的.

First of all, if we compare the moon with the earth, we find that the moon is much smaller. It is about one-quarter the size of the earth.

fighting127

umm...(...)我觉得prep-1-81是没比较

另外再把笔记里的这个题目粘贴来看看 能说明问题

In the major cities of industrialized countries at the end of the nineteenth century, important public places such as theaters, restaurants, shops, and banks had installed electric lighting, but electricity was in less than one percent of homes, where lighting was still provided mainly by candles or gas. 

而D是 there was less than one percent of homes that had electricity, having lighting that was still ---was应该改为were, 因为one percent of homes是复数名词; having… 修饰对象不清楚。

1.there be + n 句型中, be动词的单复形式由n的单复形式决定

2.单数复数: the percent of +可数名词复数形式, 谓语动词用复数

再顶

soiler

我的理解：

one-quarter that many 中that many用法不对 ，应为as many,或加of

one-quarter as many 中心词为many，many后省略drive-ins，用fewer

one-quarter of...中心词为one-quarter,用less

ezailshi

这两道题的正解都是B。

lcy19812000

以下是引用soiler在2009-3-10 15:04:00的发言：

我的理解：

one-quarter that many 中that many用法不对 ，应为as many,或加of

one-quarter as many 中心词为many，many后省略drive-ins，用fewer

one-quarter of...中心词为one-quarter,用less

soiler说的就是nemo11 MM想表达的意思吧，大家看同不同意呢？反正我是彻底晕厥了。

wen217

fewer than one quarter --- Google UK search. 约有 4,580,000 项符合 fewer than one quarter 的查询结果

less than one quarter ---  约有 23,900,000 项符合 less than one quarter 的查询结果

It tells!!! No??

soiler

昨天晚上我看白勇的语法书，上面第10章第9题写到，half/percent/quarter...of+n.形式，其谓语动词单复数看of后n.的单复数，这个和fighting127说的一样，和我印象中及楼主说的不一样

grape262001

我想弱弱的问一下，number可以用less来形容吗？

The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.

 

(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than

(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than

(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were

(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had

(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than

答案选A，解释为numbers要用greater来形容。

难道是number和numbers的区别？