OG Diagnostic test 第39题 求助各位版主及NN们

orange201112

答案是B, 但是为何这里用more  than likely？而非more likely than形式？两个是一个意思么？怎么觉得more  than likely把句子意思也改变了呢？

比如：Tom is more intelligent than Jack is. 如果变成Tom is more than intelligent Jack is? 晕啊


另外最后一句的only用在这里是啥意思呢？

orange201112

刚才附件没有发送成功，题目如下：According to scholars, the earliest writing was
probablynot a direct rendering of speech, but was
more likely to begin as a separate and distinct
symbolic system of communication, and only later
merged with spoken language.


(A) was more likely to begin as
(B) more than likely began as
(0 morethan likely beginning from
(D) it was morethan likely begunfrom
(E) it was more likely that it began

DUKB24

刚才附件没有发送成功，题目如下：According to scholars, the earliest writing was
probablynot a direct rendering of speech, but was
more likely to begin as a separate and distinct
symbolic system of communication, and only later
merged with spoken language.


(A) was more likely to begin as
(B) more than likely began as
(0 morethan likely beginning from
(D) it was morethan likely begunfrom
(E) it was more likely that it began

-- by 会员 orange201112 (2012/11/14 12:05:19)

LZ有木有搜索相关帖子？


我怎么记得我好像看过有人讨论这题，不久前

DUKB24

http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/og-diagnostic-test-verbal-39-t1440.html

http://www.beatthegmat.com/according-to-scholars-a-diagnostic-question-help-plz-t81055.html


看看这两个国外的帖子能不能帮到你


如果还有问题可以再po上来