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wwwhahchn

以下是引用小女公子在2005-5-25 21:06:00的发言：

112.    Domestic automobile manufacturers have invested millions of dollars into research to develop cars more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road.

(A) into research to develop cars more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road

(B) into research for developing even more gasoline-efficient cars on the road than at present

(C) for research for cars to be developed that are more gasoline-efficient even than presently the road

(D) in research to develop cars even more gasoline-efficient than those at present on the road

(E) in research for developing cars that are even more gasoline-efficient than presently on the road

Choice D, the best answer, uses the preposition than to compare two clearly specified and grammatically parallel terms, the cars the manufacturers hope to develop and those at present on the road. In A, the phrase more gasoline-efficient... than presently on the road does not identify the second term of the comparison. In B, the misuse of modifying phrases produces an ambiguous and awkward statement: even more gasoline-efficient cars could refer either to more cars that are efficient or to cars that are more efficient. Choices B, C, and E all use research for [verb] where the idiom requires research to [verb]. In addition, C awkwardly separates even from more, and C and E again fail to indicate the second term of the

这个问题一直就没搞懂，现在终于冒出来了。为什么这里的than后面就能省，112题中就不能省？？？还是说，这题也能省，只是不省更好。

than什么时候做conj，什么时候做关系代词啊？？

Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.

1. movies—less than those
   



2. movies—fewer than （people） have been
   



3. movies, which is less than those
   



4. movies, a number lower than the people
   



5. movies, fewer than the ones
   

根据我的经验，省略的情况一般出现在than后面跟句子、且主语同前面相同时，ETS给出的解释通常是understandable

rosebudxiaojie

以下是引用LES在2004-4-26 17:36:00的发言：

less 与 lower	1. lower 是长度概念：比…矮；比…短
	2. less 是数量概念：比…少，GMAT中常用less

Jerry, 见上less 与 lower的用法，lower 是不可以修饰 number 的。

修饰数字可以用高低，修饰数量用多少

D的错误是在于选项用number和people比较，比较的对象概念不对等，所以错，并不是因为用lower修饰number错了

rosebudxiaojie

以下是引用nowait在2005-4-25 12:02:00的发言：

support B.

from google, one example is found:

"In two years, a total of 348 people have died in seven countries in attacks that could be loosely linked with al-Qaeda or its many affiliates and emulators--far fewer thatn have been killed by bolts of lightning in the same period."

The sentence above resembles our question much!

顶

支持B

howardwang

支持B.

E中 the ones有歧义。是指代people ，还是更近的movies呢？

而且，如果选择E fewer than the ones, ，那么将than后省略的句子成分补全，没办法补.

因为 killed by bee stings 修饰the ones （逻辑意思只有指代people） ，所以，补全可能是the ones killed by bee stings  have been killed.逻辑意思很荒谬。

而且，破折号有个用法，就是表示附加或补充。

综上，答案是B。

miracle_tiger

大家不要纠缠细节了。

1）__killed出现动词肯定是than在动词或整句而非简单名次对象的比较，可以简单纳入比较的parallel;

2)如是句子比较than后主语可省略，不举例了

seekmydream

Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.

movies—less than those

movies—fewer than （people） have been

movies, which is less than those

movies, a number lower than the people

movies, fewer than the ones

dash后是形容词短语,之所以用dash是因为中间有一同位语the man-eater of the movies,表示dash后面的内容是对前面主句的补充说明.如果没有这一同位语,直接用逗号就可以.

people 可以省略是因为have been killed 的主语已经知道是people(主句已告知).该题与OG132是一样的.

z520m

那么说来，答案Ａ也没什么问题了，在ｌｏｎｇｍａｎ上，ｌｅｓｓ可以修饰可数名词！

seekmydream

那么说来，答案Ａ也没什么问题了，在ｌｏｎｇｍａｎ上，ｌｅｓｓ可以修饰可数名词

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"less than 2 percent..." is ok

but "less than those/people" is not acceptable, it should be "fewer than those/people" instead.

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-10-4 23:00:40编辑过]

nyc_cfa

发现OG112和本题省略主语,同时比较的对象都是数量,OG112是17个UFO,这里是7个人.

我觉得主语可以是number,也可以是those or people,省略主语要反而简单明了。

scorp_w

我觉得b

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