GWD-8 - Q14 请高手指点

michellefyj

这道题没有什么解题思路，求高手指点一下：

When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4000 existed in the United States, 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
我觉得可以先把D,E排除，明显表述不符合语法规则，然后可以把A排除，因为是可数的，在B,C之间就没主意了。。。最后答案是C，但是我很怀疑，因为我觉得amount似乎也有表示不可数的意思，有没有大牛明白的？谢谢！

perain

这题答案是B, prep2008笔记里有。GWD的答案是错的哇

michellefyj

噢，明白了~ 谢谢！
P.S. 错误的答案真的是很误人子弟啊！

wupenghui2000

从笔记里面摘出来的：

选项分析:
(A) one quarter加后面的部分应该是一个可数项，而less修饰不可数名词，且用less的话，前面要用there is，
故用less错误；that many的表达unidiomatic。
(B) Correcet；补全省略即there are fewer than one-quarter as many (as there were at the height of their
popularity in the late 1950s)； fewer修饰可数名词正确；one-quarter在此做副词修饰as many，后面
不用再加of，类似于twice as many/much as。
(C) amount修饰不可数名词，不能用来修饰4,000（drive-ins）这个可数的量。
(D) the number指代不清；the amount指代不清，只能修饰不可数名词；the number is less没有问题，less
和smaller都可以修饰数字。
(E) it没有指代对象；that amount指代4,000 drive-ins错，amount只能用于修饰不可数名词。