关于倍数表达问题

renprince

看了大家的讨论深受启发，终于搞懂了一原来没想通的关于比较中的it特指和that泛指的问题。现贴过来供大家归类比较。
17. In the 1980’s the rate of increase of the minority population of the United States was nearly twice as fast as the 1970’s.

twice as fast as

twice as fast as it was in

twice what it was in-正确

two times faster than that of

two times greater than

这是斑竹weiyu关于代词总结中的一个题目，我的疑问是two times faster than that of 也就是d选项为什么不对呢?

谢谢

mariezhu

首先rate用faster来修饰值得商榷；

其次，gmat里的两倍是twice，不用two times，三倍是triple，不用three times

hope it helps...

mariezhu

首先rate用faster来修饰值得商榷；

其次，gmat里的两倍是twice，不用two times，三倍是triple，不用three times

hope it helps...

dashasha

同意MARIEZHU的说法，RATE不能用FASTER来修饰，因为RATE本身就有速率的含义了，应该用大小来修饰。