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.
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 (E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
这题正确答案是A 不明白这里的its不会有歧义吗?指代extinction?
还有就是倍数表达的方式,five times greater OK吗?记得说twice greater than是错误的表达,那为什么five times就可以。。