Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it was in any previous election.
Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it was in any previous election.
Aa greater proportion than it was
Ba greater proportion than
Ca greater proportion than they have been
Dwhich is greater than was so
Ewhich is greater than it has been
答案是B
这种题目在做题时怎么解题呢?
比如说前面给出一个spending,一个cost,反正就是一个数量级的短语之类,后面是a great number或者 that number做比较。
这样的话比较对象到底怎么分辨,以及他们的谓语怎么看,有些句子会补出之前没有的谓语。
就拿这道题来说吧,A的it was,it指代的是前面的spending还是 proportion呢?
完整的补出B选项的话是怎么样的?a greater proportion (in the presidential campaign of 1992) than (a greater proportion) in any previous election?还是?
这样的题目是一类题型,叫做独立主格。 独立主格有两种,一种是with独立主格表全程同步伴随。另一种独立主格是n+修饰,作用是补充说明和解释说明的。 你问的这道题目就是第二种独立主格。 这道题首先排除DE,which仅前指代1992,或者指代campaign,哪个都改变了原句句意。 其次PK ABC; 这里ABC里首先可以去掉C,为什么。这里是porpotion在1992年和之前几年进行比较,而这个they指代的是costs,就变成costs和porpotion进行比较,所以不对。 AB里怎么选? 其实这里的A和B都对,但是! B更好一点,因为简洁。 那么你要说了,为啥B对啊,它是propotion和时间比较啊,不是比较错误吗? 这里我举一个例子:the weather in shanghai now is better than 5 years ago。这句话是对的,因为前面有时间now,后面有时间5years ago,所以很清楚知道是weather在时间上的比较。那么另一句话 the weather in shanghai is better than 5 years ago,这样就错了,因为前面没有提出时间,会产生weather和5years ago进行比较的歧义。 所以如果说题目中,比如这道题,前面是1992年,后面是previous election,时间提出的很明显,比较就不需要再补出it was了。什么时候补出? 看例子:the weather in shanghai is better than it was 5 years ago前面没有时间,后面必须补出it was,这样才知道是weather 和 weather比较,而不是和时间比较,不会产生歧义。