GWD-8-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 (less than 修饰不可数名词, 错)
B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many (as many 没见过, 应是unidiomatic吧, 错)
C. there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount (that amount 指4000, 很好啊)
D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount (number 可以用less than, one-quarter the amount 也对,这句话单拎出来没有任何语法错误! 可是看看前后文, the number 指的只能是4000, 而不是愿意想表达的今天的数据, 4000小于4000的四分之一, 逻辑错误)
E it is less than one-quarter of that amount (it指代不清, 错)
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