因为more/less这两个词既可以跟形容词, 构成比较级, 又可以单独解释为”多”/”少”, 由其引起的歧义不在少数. 它确实是ETS的一个考点, 值得引起注意. 我在版里回答了一些相关问题, 现把OG涉及的题目加以总结, 以便大家系统复习.
98. The financial crash of October 1987 demonstrated that the world’s capital markets are integrated more closely than never before and events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the rest of the village—almost instantaneously.
(A) integrated more closely than never before and
(B) closely integrated more than ever before so
(C) more closely integrated as never before while
(D) more closely integrated than ever before and that（D）
(E) more than ever before closely integrated as
More 只能放在closely 前面, 构成比较级 (程度上更紧密). 如果表达成closely integrated more than….就会造成歧义: 更多integrated (次数上更频繁)
112. Domestic automobile manufacturers have invested millions of dollars into research to develop cars more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road.
(A) into research to develop cars more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road
(B) into research for developing even more gasoline-efficient cars on the road than at present
(C) for research for cars to be developed that are more gasoline-efficient even than presently the road
(D) in research to develop cars even more gasoline-efficient than those at present on the road（D）
(E) in research for developing cars that are even more gasoline-efficient than presently on the road
More gasoline-efficient (更省油)一定要后置, 在cars之后. more gasoline-efficient cars会造成歧义, 因为more可以修饰cars (更多车).
30. What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc has been the use of the new technology to revitalize, in better sound than was ever before possible, some of the classic recorded performances of the pre-LP era.
(A) What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc
(B) The thing that was as remarkable as developing the compact disc
(C) No less remarkable than the development of the compact disc
(D) Developing the compact disc has been none the less remarkable than（C）
(E) Development of the compact disc has been no less remarkable as
这里less修饰remarkable, 意思为"更", 构成比较级. C是正确答案.
242. Even their most ardent champions concede that no less than a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary before solar cells can meet the goal of providing one percent of the nation’s energy needs.
(A) that no less than a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary
(B) that nothing other than a technical or scientific breakthrough is needed
(C) that a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary
(D) the necessity for an occurrence of a technical or scientific breakthrough（C）
(E) the necessity for a technical or scientific breakthrough occurring
此处的no less than虽然形式上与30一样, 都很象正确答案, 但这题里的no less than却是语意重复. 因为这里less是”更少”的意思, no less与后面的necessary redundant.
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