208Chicago, where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city, was plagued by labor troubles like the Pullman Strikes of 1894.

(A) where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city

(B) which had industrial growth in the nineteenth century more rapid than that of other American cities

(C) which had growth industrially more rapid than any other American city in the nineteenth century

(D) whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city（E）

(E) whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other American city

这道题有我有一处不是特别明白

如果选项e改为

whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other American cities

或者改为

whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of other American cities

可以吗？

不可以

any other表示“任何另外一个”必须用单数，就象我们初中时最常见的例子Jim is taller than any other one(而不是ones) in the class。

第2种改法that与cities不能搭配，应改成those,而改成了those又与前面的growth不搭配，所以只能用 that of any other city