[求助]两题

lazykid

1. [Three percent of beer volume is alchohol, compared with wine's twelve percent and whiskey, cognac, and rum's forty percent]
a. 原文
b.Three percent of beer volume is alcohol;of wine it is twelve percent, and of whiskey,cognac,and rum it is forty percent.
C.By volume, beer is three percent alcohol, compared with wine, which is twelve percent alcohol; whiskey,rum,and cognac are each forty percent alcohol.
d.The percentage of beer volume that is alcohol is three,compared with wine's twelve, whiskey's forty, cognac's forty,and rum's forty.
e. The percentage of beer volume that is alcohol is three; that of wine is twelve, and that of whiskey, cognac and rum is froty.

2. [Although nearly 30 percent of the more than 9 million]residents of New York city and African-Amercian, the nation's most populous city did not elect its first African-American mayor until 1989.
a. Although nearly 30 percent of the more than 9 million
b. Although nearly 30 percent of over 9 million of the

lyricling

第一题：我的答案是C。该题主要考比较成分对等，看看选项，只有C符合。
A项，将wine's 不知指代什么。
B项，将it 还原，应该是Three percent of beer volume ，那么of wine,Three percent of beer volume  is twelve percent，荒谬了。
D项，wine's还原，应该是wine's percentage of beer volume that is alcohol 不对。
E项，that指代什么？The percentage of beer volume that is alcohol of wine is....错误

第二题：我的答案是A。是9百万纽约市民的30%是黑人，不应该是纽约市民中的9百万的30%是黑人。

1stzhang

1、B

2、A

请确认答案

tocean0222

The answer of questions 1 is C. B is incorrect because the percentage or some percent of a kind of drink's volumn itself  cannot be used to refer to a certian content contained in such a beverage.

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-7-11 13:47:08编辑过]

joywzy

1,C

2,A