OG 23

lilyzy

23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
答案是D没问题.

想问一下B如果numbers改成number, 是否正确? 有没有number grew 30%的用法, 还是number grew by 30%比较好.

lilyzy

nn请帮忙看看.

lixunhuan

Sometimes, you can use "grow xx%" in an informal manner. For example,

"UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts' web-based learning division, today announced that online education program revenues and enrollments grew 47 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in the 2004 academic year (September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004)."

But, I suspect the freaking ETS would only regard "grow by xx%" as the correct answer.

lilyzy

谢谢xunhuan的解释.

我还是有些困惑. ETS是否认为grow by x%是正确的选择呢? 还是increase by x%是ETS的only choice?

lixunhuan

"increase by" and "grow by" are the same. I don't think Ets will force you to make a choice soley based on these two...

lilyzy

谢谢xunhuan

dongchuang358

请问nn，答案d中的 number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent ，这个by是否可以省略？increased more than thirty-five percent感觉也没问题呀？困惑，请指教

薰衣紫草

我觉得这个by不能省略.

increase sth: 将sth 增加 比如: increase salary

increase by ... : 增加了多少

increase more than 35 percent的意思就变成:将more than 35 percent 增加.

查了langman, 前面也是有by的: Food prices increased by 10% in less than a year.

dongchuang358

谢谢熏衣斑竹，偶明白了！！！多谢！

思谦

23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

(A)  numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase

(B)  numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

(C)  numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

(D)  number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

(E)   number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

Because a count of women employed outside the home at any given time will be expressed by a single number, the use of the plural noun numbers in choices A, B, and C is illogical. In A, the phrase grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase is redundant and wordy, since the sense of increase is implicit in the verb grew. In C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are inappropriate because there is no identifiable agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed. In choice E, was raised by ... increase is redun­dant. Choice D, which presents the comparison logically and idiomatically, is the best answer.

问题：there is no identifiable agent responsible for放在这里是什么意思？In C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are inappropriate because there is no identifiable agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed.