两道真题，请问斑竹考了什么语法点？

qqqg

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.

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

2、According to public health officials, in 1998 M became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.

b、than born

c、than they are

d、than there had been

e、than had been born

另外：

What is the difference between " two times as...as" and "twice as...as"?

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ca3ltoys

能给出答案吗?

感觉两道题都在A B之间.1---A; 2---A,right??

dashasha

能说一下答案吗？我觉得是B，A。

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-5-4 5:25:17编辑过]

qqqg

答案是c、a。请大家解释一下好吗？谢谢！

dashasha

不理解第一道，我还是坚持B。第二道有什么不理解的地方？

qqqg

第二题a中的than后面是不是省略了，省略了什么？

第一题b中的as many后面好像少了as？

xreox

第一题选C

AB比较不对称，应该是数量的比较amount

D中NUMBER数字不能LESS

E中IT指代不明

第二题选A

省略了babies were born to women ，这里IT指代the age of thirty

LES

以下是引用xreox在2004-5-4 12:48:00的发言：

第一题选C

AB比较不对称，应该是数量的比较amount

D中NUMBER数字不能LESS

D的错误还在于one-quarter 与 the amount之间缺 of，因为没有of的话，两个名词在一起应该是同位语关系，一个是另一个的解释说明，显然这里不对，而是从属关系。

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LES

对不起误导大家了。less 是不可以修饰number。偶改了。

dashasha

以下是引用xreox在2004-5-4 12:48:00的发言：

第一题选C

AB比较不对称，应该是数量的比较amount

D中NUMBER数字不能LESS

E中IT指代不明

第二题选A

省略了babies were born to women ，这里IT指代the age of thirty

同意你对第二题的解释，但是对第一道题，AMOUNT只能指代不可数名词，DRIVEIN这里是可数名词，不可以用AMOUNT来指代DRIVEIN的数量。