When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.
there are less than one-quarter that many
there are fewer than one-quarter as many
there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount
the number is less than one-quarter the amount
it is less than one-quarter of that amount
(A) one quarter加后面的部分应该是一个可数项,而less修饰不可数名词
(B) Correcet;补全省略即there are fewer than one-quarter as many (as there were in the late 1950s); fewer修饰可数名词正确;
(C) amount修饰不可数名词,不能用来修饰4,000(drive-ins)这个可数的量。
(D) the number指代不清;the amount指代不清,只能修饰不可数名词;
(E) it没有指代对象,that amount指代4,000 drive-ins错。
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