GWD 1-16，我错在哪儿啊？

rhod

以下是引用coolluoxi在2004-9-9 0:18:00的发言：
我觉得it不对，因为它指代a greater proportion 而不是proportion，所以A肯定不对，愚见，请赐教！

I agree this point!

Maggieyin

我选B，因为A中it 指代不清。除了大家给出的OG的例子，大全里一个例子不知合不合适。

1.        In 1990’s, there are more babies born by women over thirty years old than under it.

(A) than under it

(B) than were they under it

(C) than had been under it

(D) than were the babies（A）

(E) than those were under it

asicschu

嗯, 我也選B唷!!

irene2023

以下是引用coolluoxi在2004-9-9 0:18:00的发言：
我觉得it不对，因为它指代a greater proportion 而不是proportion，所以A肯定不对，愚见，请赐教！

me too！

so I think choice(B) is the correct answer.

hpp920

我觉得it不对，因为它指代a greater proportion 而不是proportion，所以A肯定不对，愚见，请赐教！

说了我想说的!支持B.

davidcopper

这题做时选的B, 讨论看得我迷迷糊糊, 干扰了思路, 最后思路是:

1.这题比较的动词应该补出, 因为是针对不同时期的比较

2.可以用it指代a proportion, 因为是同一个概念,不是具体实物

3.a greater proportion than it was=a proportion that is greater than it was

最后,觉得A的时态有问题, 应该是was和it had been相比较, 所以可能还是B好一点吧, 因为用名词短语比较情况下可能可以不用补出动词

nosmoking

综合大家的看法，我觉得应该是 B

句子补全应该是Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than (it had been)in any previous election.    it指代 proportion

所以A错在时态上，C则比较对象不对，因为they只能指代costs。这确实类似于OG198  Although Napoleon's army entered Russia with far more supplies than (supplies) for any previous campaign, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.   根据OG198的讨论，for前省略的是supplies，虽然OG解释中有这么一句话：If than is followed by a clause referring to army, the subject of that clause must be singular (it). Furthermore, the verb of that clause will need to be in the past perfect form (had had) because it refers to a time before the simple past of entered.   但注意，解释的开始有If表示假设，表前提。

weiqifang

我认为应该选B， 省略的既不是IT，也不是THEY，而是a greater proportion than that in any previous election

而今迈步从头越

赞同选B，发现GMAT喜欢在描述数字的时候（很多时候是百分数），常常用一个概括性的名词来指代前面出现的数目。本题中：proportion指代more than half. 同意nosmoking，A的错误在于时态错，而不是指代错。

Og 81：

81. In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an average thirty-year-old male's income; and forty-four percent in 1984.

(A)  income; and forty-four percent in 1984

(B)   income; in 1984 the figure was forty-four percent

(C)  income, and in 1984 forty-four percent

(D)  income, forty-four percent in 1984 was the figure

(E)   income that rose to forty-four percent in 1984

wenkexin

我个人认为应该选a。因为it指代的不是costs而是指代more than half这个proportion.