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小豆豆

Q8: PP70.

Employment costs rose 2.8 percent in the 12 months that ended in September, slightly less than they did in the year that ended in the previous quarter.

 

A.    less than they did
            

B.    less than it did
            

C.    less than they were
            

D.    lower than

E.     lower than they were

costs 是不可数 所以 用 less 和 it 选b 答案选a

美剧在哪里

cost  c.n. (commerce)amount of money one spends or has to spend in order to make s.t.
      u.n. amount of money, price, one pays or has to pay (for s.t.)in order to wen it, get it done

企鹅字典上的解释

小豆豆

没懂

babee2queen

就是说cost做成本讲的时候是可数的

http://www.google.cn/dictionary?q=cost&langpair=en|zh&hl=zh-CN&ei=4L6HSrmEAc-dkAX99dGpCA&sa=X&oi=translation&ct=result

所以原句用they木错

benja

http://www.beatthegmat.com/sentence-correction-from-gmat-prep-t11199.html