大全404——平反：fast可以修饰rate

kittycd

404.
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. C

(A) twice as fast as

(B) twice as fast as it was in 相当迷惑性！

(C) twice what it was in

(D) two times faster than that of（C）

(E) two times greater than

大家看看这道题，我看了以前的帖子，关于B选项，主流的解释是fast不能修饰rate，可是我查了，有很多fast rate的用法：2.

These workers produce at a very fast
                    rate.
工人们在以非常快的速度生产。-- 英汉 - 辞典例句
But information technology continues to develop at a very fast
                    rate.
然而，信息技术仍在以一种很快的速度发展。
ast data rate, up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) or over. 其数据传递速率高，可达100兆位/秒（Mbps)甚至更高。



不过我猜测fast修饰rate这种用法不够严谨，故在GMAT中算错。大家觉得呢？

卮言浅夏

I'd go for B coz the "what" and "it" in C sound redundant. They both indicate "rate"
Another example in prep2:61. (
Researchers in Germany have unearthed 400,000-year-old wooden spears from what it appears was an ancient lakeshore hunting ground as stunning evidence of human ancestors who systematically hunted big game much earlier than believed.

(A) it appears was an ancient lakeshore hunting ground as stunning evidence of human ancestors who

(B) it appears had been an ancient lakeshore hunting ground and is stunning evidence that human ancestors

(C) it appears to have been an ancient lakeshore hunting ground and is stunning evidence that human ancestors

(D) appears to be an ancient lakeshore hunting ground, stunning evidence that human ancestors

(E) appears that it is an ancient lakeshore hunting ground, stunning evidence of human ancestors who


key
A的错误原因：what it重复，都指代同一个东西。

winny0821

Hmm...it seems like that "fast rate" is okay...since P2-137 uses "slow rate of technology spending".

Blaming its recent troubles on a widening recession and slow rate of technology spending, the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected to report a loss in its third quarter.

mudiduanger

楼主给的例句里RATE 都是速度的意思

而题目里的RATE则是表示比率

因此不能平反

gabriel_djh

rate of increase of the minority population of the United States 翻译过来就是

美国少数人口增加的速度.


这个好像和比率没有关系啊. 我觉得也应该选B. C 怎么看都不顺, 一般what 只能引导主语从句和宾语从句, 这里明显不是.

dandanapple

rate of increase of the minority population of the United States 翻译过来就是

美国少数人口增加的速 ...
gabriel_djh 发表于 2011-2-27 19:54

    rate of increase 是固定用法－有计算公式的。 所以用fast 形容不好。 所以应选c。what 取代了 it was 后面具体的数字