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OG12-85

Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of anancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nile Delta and the rivervalleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.

(A) that flurished at the same time as the civilizations

(B) that [url=]had flourished[/url][alan1] at the same time as had the civilizations

(C) that flourished at the same time those had

(D) flourishing at the same time as[url=] those[/url][alan2] did

(E) flourishing at the same time as those were

GWD真题
According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College an University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year as those charging over $16,000.

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[alan1]过去完成时和过去时要成对出现

[alan2]as前后单复数不同，需要补出，不能用those代替

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[url=]4[/url][alan1] .主系表结构，主谓结构

Prep1-134 省略谓语，表语后置

Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members to be enrolled in lower-end insurance plans that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending less time with each.

212. (GWD-10-Q1)

According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than [url=]are[/url][alan2] other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

A.
minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice

B.
minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing

C.
minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as[url=]other graduates[/url][alan3] to plan on practicing

D.
it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(C)

E.
it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study indicate that the patterns of stress that girls experience
are
more likely to result indepressionthan
are
those that boys experience.

(the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely than those the boys experience to result in depression)

St. John’s , Newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as Paris, France, but in spring St. John’s residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes than to be bracing themselves against arctic chills, shoveling snow, or seeking shelter from a raging northeast storm.

The pay of senior executives increased in 1990 by a larger percentage than did the wages of other salaried workers.

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[alan1]than前若有宾语，则其后的助词需补出，时态要据后定。主语相同可省

[alan2]be likely in doing错误，be likely to do

[alan3]系动词are要省略

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5.数量的比较与表达方式

倍数表达：twice (as much as) (sth)that….
X times adj. than
X times as adj. as

the X of A is 3 times that of B

the X of A is 3 times B

the X of A is 3 times more than B

more/less==greater+degree/amount/number/density

larger/smaller +number/proportion

Providing initial evidence that airports are a larger source of pollution than they were once believed to be, environmentalists in Chicago report that the total amount of pollutant emitted annually by vehicles at O’Hare International Airport is twice as much as that which is being emitted annually by all motor vehicles in the Chicago metropolitan area.

A.
as much as that which is being emitted annually by all

B.
as much annually as is emitted by the

C.
as much compared to what is annually emitted by all

[url=]D.
that[/url][alan1] emitted annually by all

(D)

E.
that emitted annually compared to the

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[alan1]twice后面可以直接接名词，twice as much as也是对的
这里that 指代pollutant

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PREP07-66

Africa's black rhino population in the mid-1970's numbered about 20,000, ten times the estimated population of 2,000 in 1997.

(A) the estimated population

(B) that of their estimated population

(C) more than the population's estimated amount

(D) more black rhinos than their population estimate

(E) more than that of their population's estimated amount

238. (GWD-4-4)

A new hair-growth drug is being sold for three times the price, per milligram, as the drug's maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient.

A.
as

B.
than

C.
that

D.
of what

(C)

E.
at which

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2010.5真题

某industry   ， grow 划线 something's growth rate
a) 3 times
b) 3 times of
[url=]c[/url][alan1] ) at 3 times
d) at 3 times of
e) at 3 times that of

OG12-16(OG第12版语法16题)

Retail sales rose 8/10 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubled that of the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending for the previous quarter.

A. that personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubled that of

B. that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double

C. of personal spending in the July-September quarter, that it more than doubled

D. of personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubling that of

E. of personal spending in the July-September quarter, that it would more than double that of

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[alan1]也可以说grow at 3 times that(the growth rate of something

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The number of people flying first class on domestic flights rose sharply in 1990, doubling the increase of the previous year.

Retail sales rose 8/10 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double the 1.4 percent [url=]growth rate[/url][alan1] in personal spending for the previous quarter

According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of
young adults used cocaine in 1979, twice the number reported in the 1977 survey.

A Labor Department study states that the number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

its number is now five times
[url=]greater[/url][alan2] than when…

The recent surge in the number of airplane flights has clogged the nation's air-traffic control system, leading to a 55 percent increase in [url=]delays[/url][alan3]
at airports and prompting fear among some officials that safety is being compromised.

In 1914 a total of 469,000 cars and trucks were produced in the United States, but in 1929 almost twice that number of trucks alone came off the assembly lines.

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[alan1]double the growth rate/increase

[alan2]number 用larger/smaller/greater修饰，不能用more!!!

[alan3]不是55percent more delays 也不是an increase of 55 percent in delays

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6.同位语比较

经典考题

In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an average thirty-year-old male’s income; [url=]and forty-four percent in 1984[/url][alan1] .

(A) income; and forty-four percent in 1984

(B) income; in 1984 the figure was forty-four percent

(C) income, and in 1984 forty-four percent

(D) income, forty-four percent in 1984 was the figure

(E) income that rose to forty-four percent in 1984

看compared with 的比较对象问题

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[alan1],a proportion less than （that） in 1984

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[url=]20[/url][alan1] . GWD26-Q20

In 1981 children in the United States spent an average
of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing
household chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week.

A.
chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours
a week

[url=]B.
chores[/url][alan2] ; by 1997 that figure [url=]had[/url][alan3] grown to nearly
six hours a week

C.
chores, whereas nearly six hours a week were
spent in 1997

D.
chores, compared with a figure of nearly six hours a week in 1997

E.
chores, that figure growing to nearly six hours a week in 1997

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[alan1]gmat看到代词，逗号后的分词结构，马上看就近修饰时否有歧义

[alan2]正解，注意看figure的用法。A选项they指代不明确，D选项的compared with 就近修饰chores!

[alan3]by 1997，所以用过去完成时

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prep

In the United States, while the number of foreign-born residents and their children is higher than ever, the percentage of the population they represent is not; in 1910 this group made up 35 percent of the population when compared to 20 percent in 2000.

(A) population when compared to 20 percent in 2000

(B) population [url=]as compared to[/url][alan1] 2000, when it was 20 percent

(C) population, comparing it with 20 percent in 2000

(D) population, unlike 2000, with 20 percent

[url=](E)[/url][alan2] population, compared with 20 percent in 2000

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[alan1]这里比较对象不对等，percent 和 2000做了比较

[alan2]此为正解，相比前面那题这里compared with 修饰35 percent of the population,比较对象相当！

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新Prep语法笔记- 132. (31556-!-item-!-188;#058&004545)

A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO's now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, [url=]compared to a ratio of 42 times[/url] in 1980.[alan1]

(A) that CEO's now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, [url=]compared[/url][alan2] to a ratio of 42 times

(B) that, on average, CEO's now earn 419 times the pay of blue-collar workers, a ratio that compares to 42 times

(C) that, on average, CEO's now earn 419 times the pay of blue-collar workers, [url=]as[/url][alan3] compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio

(D) CEO's who now earn on average 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, as compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio

(E) CEO's now earning an average of 419 times the pay of blue-collar workers, compared to the ratio of 42 times

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[alan1],a greater ratio as compared to that in 1980

as compared to what was 42times in 1980

[alan2]比较对象不对等，pay和ratio比较

[alan3]这里比较对象对等，pay 和pay比较