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sunyuwei

Some scientists have been critical of the laboratory tests conducted by the Federal Drug Administration on the grounds that the amounts of suspected carcinogens fed to animals far exceeds those that humans could consume

A. far exceeds those that humans could consume

B. exceeds by far those humans can consume

C. far exceeds those humans are able to consume

D. exceed by far those able to be consumed by humans     (E)

E. far exceed those that humans could consume

答案是E
对于exceed我有些问题为什么主谓一致不是单数形式， the amounts of 难道侧重的不是数量？就像 the number of 侧重数量所以用的是单数？

三塘木

Amounts 是复数，主语和谓语一致所以要用exceed

sunyuwei

三塘木 发表于 2014-10-24 07:10
Amounts 是复数，主语和谓语一致所以要用exceed

the amount of 就用单数？

三塘木

sunyuwei 发表于 2014-10-24 07:28
the amount of 就用单数？

the amount of的话就是单数了
amount 和 number有点不一样
number用来形容可数的名词（countable）,在gmat里只能有the number of和a number of这两种，前者是单数，后者是复数
the amounts of 和 the amount of 的区别就在于看你是想说两堆还是一堆，这里的the amounts of suspected carcinogens 意思上应该是说不止是一种致癌物carcinogens，可能是有很多种致癌物做衡量标准，所以要用amounts表示复数，如果原来的选项里有把amount画线的话，那就要特别区分说到底句意是想说一个还是多个

sunyuwei

三塘木 发表于 2014-10-27 06:02
the amount of的话就是单数了
amount 和 number有点不一样
number用来形容可数的名词（countable）,在gma ...

嗯 受教了。那 amount of 后面不是加uncountable noun 吗？