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Avantasia

这题明显就是一个比较对像的对等性问题, 只有D的比较对像才是对等的.

oldest

呵呵，D终于开始有人支持了

sammaijgd

D后面少个of,如果有的话，才有可能作为正确答案之一

PKGMAT

A的 less和many不parallel?

mmfoolish

我感到有点奇怪，为何我手中的答案C用的是amount呢？否则我也选C了，谢谢

Q41:
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

kelly_wong

以下是引用dreadpower在2004-3-28 15:55:00的发言：
  众位都是选A，C吗？？  我实在不敢说自己选D~~~晕

  理由是两个：the number 和4000对应
                       less than修饰数字，不能用fewer than
  其他的我觉得意思都不对啊，there are ...那里存在。。。的数字/量的四分之一

支持D

howardwang

以下是引用Avantasia在2005-5-12 8:36:00的发言：
这题明显就是一个比较对像的对等性问题, 只有D的比较对像才是对等的.

支持D

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-9-24 20:28:51编辑过]

nickt

the number is less than one-quarter the amount --Number不能用less 来形容

deanjiang

选C

看了LONGMAN上的几个词解释：

4 any amount of something used to say that there is plenty of something, and no more is needed:

The school has any amount of resources and equipment.

amount可修饰可数名词

that3 S1 W2 [+ adjective/adverb]

1 spoken used to say how big, how much etc, especially when you are showing the size, amount etc with your hands:

It was quite a large fish - about that long.

He missed hitting the car in front by that much.

that many前不能直接加名词，需要介词

few S1 W1 comparative fewer, superlative fewest

1 [no comparative] a small number of things or people

a few

I have to buy a few things at the supermarket.

Pam called to say she's going to be a few minutes late.

There were a few people sitting at the back of the hall.

There are a few more things I'd like to discuss.

fewer修饰可数名词就ok

综合起来看就选C，其他都有问题

NN们指教

moomoo

这题我选(B), 思路如下

首先，some 4,000 (drive-ins) existed in the United States... 此处的主语应该是省略掉的drive-ins，而不是4,000;这一点逻辑上来说应该是很明显的，而却一个数字/amount(4,000)不能existed in the United States...然后，如果后半句要用there are的话，应该也是省略了drive-ins，(B) there are fewer than one-quarter as many (drive-ins). 这样语法上是没有问题的。

关于其他选项：(A)、(E)很明显。(C)无法带入省略的drive-ins. (D) number/数字是不能和amount/数量比的；an amount of 4,000 cars, an amount of 4,000 dollars, 而不是an amount of 4,000.

关于比较级和as ... 不能同时使用的rule,嘿嘿，我从来是不认同这种rule的（类似的还有rather than/instead of) - ETS可能有自己的倾向，但我还是坚持具体情况具体分析。比如说，单独的说There are fewer than as many as 4,000 students 显然是啰嗦冗余；但是结合上下文，School A has 4,000 students, and school B has fewer than half as many.　就很合适啊。

最后，这道题里，如果选项Ａ用的是fewer而不是less,我认为也是正确的。

ps. 最后一招，大家google一下"fewer than a quarter(half) as many"吧。