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tiantian · 发表于 2004-9-6 09:54:00

251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970’s.

(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than

(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than

(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were

(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had（A）

(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than

I quite don't understand OG's explanation. (In B, the construction its numbers are ...more is not idiomatic: there are more birds, but not more numbers. ) What's the difference between ..more than... and ...greater than...? What's the difference between its number and its numbers? og 161 also tests the difference between ...more than... and ...greater than...., and it says " Density, an abstract 'mass' noun, is logically construed with greater than". Can some NN give me a general rule of using more than vs greater than? Thanks in advance.

tiantian · 发表于 2004-9-6 22:13:00

我真的搞不清楚何时用more than，何时用greater than。请牛牛们帮着看看这道题。而且its numbers指的是什么？不是只有a number of and the number of， numbers一定错吗？

rt316 · 发表于 2004-9-7 00:50:00

I have more apples than you have.

The number of apples in the basket is greater than that in the box.

由此可见，more than是比较具体事物，而greater than用于比较number这个概念

shiningstar · 发表于 2004-9-7 02:44:00

斑竹的这个例子中that指代谁啊？根据数的关系的出肯定指代number但是带回原句than number in the box,逻辑意思对么？还是指代总的number of apples?是不是改成than that of those in the box?这样又罗嗦了。that可以指代number of apples么？

agk99 · 发表于 2004-9-7 03:32:00

哈囉　又見面了　我的看法是後者

the number of apples=that

舉例來說

OG-8. Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the amount of energy used by equipment, such as lights, that are visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate that used by unobtrusive equipment, such as water heaters.

(A) equipment, such as lights, that are visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate that

(B) equipment, such as lights, that are visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate it when

(C) equipment, such as lights, that is visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate it when

(D) visible equipment, such as lights, that must be turned on and off and underestimate that（D）

(E) visible equipment, such as lights, that must be turned on and off and underestimate it when

答案選D，這裡的that是指the amount of energy

版主講的是同一個意思

shiningstar · 发表于 2004-9-7 04:06:00

thansk!!!!

tiantian · 发表于 2004-9-7 10:21:00

实在太谢谢agk99了，是否可以再解释一下number和numbers的区别？这里为何用numbers?

shiningstar · 发表于 2004-9-7 11:30:00

建议楼主搜索以下number会有好多相关链接的哦 http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=11529

almarabbit01 · 发表于 2004-9-14 10:54:00

请问greater than 后面是不是省略了those(parallel to its numbers)

Thanks

almarabbit01 · 发表于 2004-9-14 20:35:00

Post again:

请问greater than 后面是不是省略了those(parallel to its numbers)

Thanks

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