GWD-8-Q41 中国人很难作对的一题

didaxx

我认为应该同意PREP 给出的答案B , 理由如下：

1、few修饰可数名词  less修饰不可数的内容(这一点在OG12的基本语法知识讲解中明确说到了，并举了例子)

drive-in：A drive-in is a restaurant, cinema, or other commercial place which is specially designed so that customers can use the services provided while staying in their cars.

drive-in是可数名词， 因为A、E用less来修饰drive-in，所以可以马上排除A和E;

2、amount是用来修饰不可数名词的(字典中的释义：The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.)，many是修饰可数名词的，many本身可以做表数量的代词（字典中的内容：Also a pronoun. 例句：We stood up, thinking through the possibilities. There weren't many. ）  

所以在这道题中完全不应该使用amount, 所以排除C和D被排除

综上所述，大家应该相信PREP 2中的答案，这道题我也做到了，PREP给出了答案B。这样说来这道题还是有道理的，其他四个选项都是有硬伤的。

遗失的紫水晶

挺有道理的， 按排除法只能选B了，但是我想问一下fewer than。。。as many是个什么用法，这里的as 是怎么用的呢？？？疑惑啊！！！！！请NN们快来解答吧！！！！

liulianf

看晕了·

不过ans里面写的C

B 选项的话，as many 感觉不对吧~ 省略as some 4000 drive-ins?

糖奔奔

看晕了·

不过ans里面写的C

B 选项的话，as many 感觉不对吧~ 省略as some 4000 drive-ins?

-- by 会员 liulianf (2010/5/10 15:37:26)

我也考古了七八个关于这个题的帖子了。。。完全崩溃了。。不过答案确实是B啊，莫非liulianf童鞋你的prep跟别人的不一样？？

我觉得比较信服的的解释就是nemo11和奥特曼小组的天蝎座同学的
我整理了那几个帖子上比较convince我的解释，看看能不能说服你呢^^
as many
a number that is equal to another number
They say the people of Los Angeles speak 12 languages and teach just as many in the schools.

A great trip! We visited five countries in as many days (=in five days).
以下是引用nemo11在2009/3/8 13:30:00的发言：

这道题还是考倒装吧。there be 的倒装

B  there are fewer than one-quarter as many

C there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount

B中there are，one-quarter代表1000，那么谓语用复数are

而C中 one-quarter of that amount中心词还是amount，那么谓语应该是单数is，而不是are

when drive-ins were...,some 4000 drive-ins existed in the United States,but today fewer than one-quarter as many drive-ins are there. drive-ins是可数所以不用less

而且我觉得some 4000 drive-ins与fewer than one-quarter as many drive-ins对应的很好 exised与are对应的很好 in the US与there对应的很好这个句子本来就是想要今夕对比我只是在B和C之间徘徊过



因为drive-ins were 这里用的是复数说明是drive-ins是可数的，用few修饰不能用Little修饰，所以A不对。

这道题的tricky是倒装以及数和数量的区别。

---nemo11

我很同意这个观点也觉得考点就是这个题干专门把some 4000后面的drive-ins和fewer than one-quarter as many drive-ins后面的两个drive-ins省略掉(当然，因为重复也是应该省略掉) 就是看考生能不能读清楚主语是drive-ins 所以用fewer而不是less

章振邦《新编英语语法》P1452

It's more expensive than it was last time but not as good(as it was last time).

在《英汉多功能词典上查到》：

as many: (此为省略随后的as...)

1、 [adj.]  (与前述之数)同数的

例句：They had five quaarrels in as many meetings. 他们见了五次面，吵了五次架。

2、[代] （与前述之数）相同

例句： I have three suits,but I need twice as many

章振邦《新编英语语法》P1452

It's more expensive than it was last time but not as good(as it was last time).

在《英汉多功能词典上查到》：

as many: (此为省略随后的as...)

1、 [adj.]  (与前述之数)同数的

例句：They had five quaarrels in as many meetings. 他们见了五次面，吵了五次架。

2、[代] （与前述之数）相同

例句： I have three suits,but I need twice as many

阳光小捷子

两位牛牛的讨论真是让我好生佩服你们对真理的执着追求啊！我也是个认真的人，所以遇到争议题不喜欢放之聊聊。于是在看了大家的精彩讨论和我网上几番搜查后终于得出以下结论，希望大家多多指教！
GWD-8-Q41:

When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950’s, some 4,000（省略drive-ins，不可能是4000这个数字existed）existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

A.there are less than one-quarter thatmany（that many表达不对；many后省略drive-ins，所以这里的one-quarter不能单独看成是分数用less，而要连着看：one-quarter that many drive-ins，所以这个分数构成的词组修饰的是可数名词，不能less用来修饰）

B.there are fewer than one-quarter as many（省略as are there in the 1950's；fewer和many都修饰可数名词；but连接比较，前后比较对象要有同类一致性，即比较的是drive-ins数量）

C.there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount（amount修饰不可数名词，不能用来修饰4000 drive-ins）

D.the number is less than one-quarter the amount（比较对象不同类，未划线前句比较的是4000 drive-ins这数量与之而不是数字）

E.it is less than one-quarter of that amount（it指代不明；比较对象不同类，未划线前句比较的是4000 drive-ins这数量与之而不是数字）

注：一般来说：如果比较的是单独的分数，百分比，比例，数字等“值”的大小时，用修饰不可数的amount，less，much等及单数谓语修饰；如果是用这些值做词组形成A of B时，（如50%of trees，1/3of milk等）在比较对象为A of B代表的整个数量时，谓语动词和less/fewer等词取决于名词是否可数及其单复数形式。

Eg：Fewer than half of the students in the class were present yesterday due to the flu.

特例：因为英语中一般的A of B的侧重点在于A，所以如果当句子表达的意思强调的是前面的数字部分A时，尤其在比较数据中，即使后面的名词是可数的复数形式，也要用less而非fewer来修饰，因为fewer的话强调的就是名词部分了。

Eg：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 inless than one percent of homes（强调的是比1%还少，而不是1%的家庭数量）, where lighting was still provided mainly by candles or gas.

超超琪琪格

同意楼上的

超超琪琪格

但同时你怎么可以辨别到底是强调数量呢，还是一般的AofB修饰呢？我感觉既然用了分数，并且是精确到百分之多少，多多少少都有点强调数量的意思。

超超琪琪格

我又大意了，你已经强调了“尤其在比较数据中”，ok，明了。

熊熊加小怪

up....已经被绕晕了。。。

lisney

看了几页讨论，，我想问下，less 不是既可以修饰不可数也可以修饰可数的么。。。。。