语法真题讨论 急

fenghsu

    

1: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950’s, some 4000 existed in the US, but today there are less than one-quarter that many. fficeffice" />

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 number

D: the number is less than one-quarter the amount

E: it is less than one-quarter of that amount

我选 B

snow_mountain

我选C。不敢确定。不过这题以前在CD上看到过。楼主方便告知来源吗？说不定好做过search.

delldell

我选A

mariezhu

我选C，感觉上DE用amount来指代可数名词的数量应该不对吧？

freedownload

我蒙C

wangdaya

c one-quarter 怎么用？好好查一下字典。

tianwan

Fewer和less只有less可以直接放在than前面。所以所有的few than的选项错。fficeffice" />

Less than 是一个副词词组。

D错：the number is less than one-quarter the amount， number less than amount？

只有A找不到错误。

mariezhu

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tianwan

应该选C，还有更好的解释吗？

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-3-28 14:04:32编辑过]

snow_mountain

其实这题我也是在A和C之间犹豫。关键在于这个less than 可以修饰population, sales, dollars 等等。fewer than 是有的，虽然不是很多。

这个fewer than one-quarter of that number 看着让人觉得不塌实。

有没有人有比较肯定的解释？