白勇第7章-36题

1.        In the 1980’s the rate of increase of the minority population of the United States was nearly twice as fast as the 1970’s.

(A) twice as fast as

(B) twice as fast as it was in

(C) twice what it was in

(D) two times faster than that of

(E) two times greater than

答案是c，白勇说b错是因为it was in the1970是个句子，和名词短语不对应，我觉得可以这样说啊~~~

我觉得白勇语法里面好多解释的很奇怪。有一些也是有问题的

it was in the 1970's 应该不是句子，it指代rate，in the 1970's修饰rate

这道题里，twice as fast as it was in， 我觉得错误是因为rate of increase不能用fast来修饰，number is twice, 或者 increase twice as fast as

还请思路清楚的NN来解答一些吧，本来觉得挺简单的问题，刚才跟我lg讨论，结果越讨论越乱

我一开始也是这么认为的但是在Google了一下fast rate，似乎有这样的用

法。可是白勇这么一说真让人不明白，我就是选B的，大牛帮看看吧

我也在想这道题 看了一个美国人的解释 还是和fast有关

The key here is that we cannot use fast (or slow, for that matter) for

rate--we don't say a fast or slow rate, do we? Isn't it more natural to

say a high or low rate?

I call these "measurement" words, and they come up from time to time in

ETS grammar. For example, we don't say a hot temperature, we say a high

temperature, right?
The correct answer provided is C.