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redragon124

C两个错误：

（1）which指代有错误；

（2）原句中that can be caught是修饰monkfish 的，但C向用于修饰cod and haddock，改变了原意

ll_422

看了这么多讨论 41题终于可以定论了 答案是C 我开始也选D 可后来想了想 THE NUMBER指代不清 它逻辑上不是指句中SOME 4000 EXISED IN THE .... 而是指TODAY 中暗含的存在的数字

D里面，number犯了我说的第二点里面的错误，即不能用less来形容，要给为smaller。

---I agree with these two. but can rule out D

wsdoll

41题：

老美论坛看到了。我又动摇选A了。

Post2ashish, i agree with your reasoning on question !. the reason why I reposted this here was because, almost all member who looked at this question at sentencecorrection.com were choosing fewer, stating that drive-in is a countable noun.
To me, I think the comaprison here is not on drive-ins but on the number.
So far as we cannot say that the number of people in this room is fewer than twenty, we should forget about using fewer in this question.

 

Anyway, what you want to know: yes, you are right that we generally use non-count modifiers (less, amount, much, etc.) when we are referring to percentages and fractions, even when those numbers refer to count nouns. The concept behind this is that we are focusing on the number itself, not on the things the number represents. And this case would be no exception.

This gets rid of B and C. Also, D and E are awkward or wordy, in addition to the some other problems.

So, let's address the last part of the underline--many or amount. In this case, since we are referring to a count noun, drive-ins, we should use a count modifier, many or number.

You were confused by that many; the that is a demonstrative and refers to the number 4,000 that was already mentioned in the sentence. Compare it to something like I didn't know that many people would show up.

The as many in B isn't quite right, either--we use as... as...for comparisons, and ETS usually wants us to have the other as in the sentence to make it grammatically complete.

wsdoll

大全937中说和修饰数字，用less than.

yyisme

查了，fish复数可以原形，monkfish这里指复数，各种大小的monkfish，所以their绝对没问题。

选A

nemojia

那NUMBER到底能不能用less来修饰啊```

aqboy

Number 可以用less 修饰

 

ETS的数学题目里面就有很多这种用法

ricee

C不太好，there be表自然存在，后面跟名词，这里的名词是amount，自然存在只有具体名词，而amount这样的抽象名词不适合。

D也不太好，number怎么和amount对应呢? one quarter缺了个of. 但前面是人数，后面的确是可以用the number,见例子：

OG11-4  A survey by the National Council of Churches showed that in 1986 there were 20,736 female ministers, almost 9 percent of the nation’s clergy, twice as much as 1977.

(A) twice as much as 1977

(B) twice as many as 1977

(A) twice as much as 1977

(B) twice as many as 1977

(C) double what it was in 1977

(C) double what it was in 1977

(D) double the figure for 1977 （D）

(D) double the figure for 1977 （D）

(E) a number double that of 1977’s

(E) a number double that of 1977’s

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-5-17 15:39:32编辑过]

january_ye

有没有41题的定论....