Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.
movies—less than those
movies—fewer than have been
movies, which is less than those
movies, a number lower than the people
movies, fewer than the ones
题目分析:
略。
选项分析:
A选项:由于比较对象是“人”,而人是可数名词,因此less than(用于不可数名词)应改为fewer than。代词those的指代对象是people,比较对象没有问题。
B选项:Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。另外,本题用fewer than those也没有问题。
C选项:定语从句which is less than those killed by bee stings,其在字面上会就近修饰名词,即,the man-eater of the movies,逻辑有误。less than错误同选项(A)。
D选项:比数量应该用fewer than而不是lower than,数量只有多少,没有高低。
E选项:代词the ones指代有误。这个代词通常用于指代前面出现过的一堆人或物种的几个,例如:
I planted a lot of roses in my garden. The ones in white I like the best.
例句中的the ones指代的是a lot of roses中的几朵。在本题中,显然同一群人不可能即被鲨鱼咬死又被蜜蜂咬死。
when you consider parallel constructions, your main goal is just to pick the choice with the best parallelism.
if you were a writer, then you would need all kinds of subtle intuition about this kind of thing -- because writers don't get multiple-choice options!
but you get multiple-choice options, so we needn't complicate the issue any more than necessary.
“if you were a writer, then you would need all kinds of subtle intuition about this kind of thing -- because writers don't get multiple-choice options!”
That part of the quote is just awesome;)
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