OG 23

joshla

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

选D。

但是，说"the number of...accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth...", 这样的表述逻辑上合不合理啊？能不能说a number accounts for 62%呢？

cckjenius

以下是引用joshla在2007-4-9 18:58:00的发言：

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.

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

选D。

但是，说"the number of...accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth...", 这样的表述逻辑上合不合理啊？能不能说a number accounts for 62%呢？

朗文: account for something -- to form a particular amount or part of something
         Ex: Afro-Americans account for 12% of the US population.

所以句意= 女性外出工作的數目上升35%, 且此數目佔了超過62% of bla bla bla....

用accounted 就是跟前面的 increased 平衡囉~

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dormousedzc

number可以说grow么?

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-11-23 18:18:03编辑过]

longbai

在刘振民的GMAT语法改错一书中，第161页 "动词+百分数或倍数" :

the personal income last year rose 1.1%

bright1798

看到国外论坛上的解释，跟大家分享一下。

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase Wrong - "numbers" is not appropriate for noun "women"; "more than...increase" is redundant.

(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent Wrong - "numbers", same reason as above; "grew" is not idiomatic for percentages.

(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent Wrong - "numbers", same reason as above; passive construction creates an illogical meaning and signifies that women were raised by percentages.

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

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