※ 引述《tootoobenee (A级垂耳兔)》之铭言： : ※ 引述《glendy (glendy)》之铭言： : : 第16题 : : Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending : : in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it : : ---------------------------- : : was in any previous election. : : --- : : 答案是Ｂ： : : a greater proportion than : : 但我选C： : : a greater proportion than they have been : : 是否they have been是多余的字眼？或有其他原因？ : 这题是走同位语的独立主格结构, 还原句为 : a proportion (that was) greater that it was in any previous election : a proportion是以同位语方式修饰half of the spending : 省略後因为be动词that was的was消失了,所以後面than的主词及be动词也跟着省略 : 这样比较结构才会平衡 : 一点浅见... 【原题照引】第16题 Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it ---------------------------- was in any previous election. --- 答案是Ｂ：a greater proportion than 【解法】 一、这题的语意乃「此比例 (more than half) 比原本之前的任何一次选举的比 例都高」。所以这句话在完整情况下可以写成： Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, which is a greater proportion than it was in any previous election. 二、1992 之後的 which is 可以省略，而使得 a greater... 成为同位语。这 应该不用解释吧！ 三、根据文法规定， than 之後的省略情况有一条规则： 「若主要子句与从属子句的时态不同时，不能省略动词（或助动词），但若 有『表示时间的字』时，就可以省略。」 例如： It is warmer today than (it was) yesterday. 故原题中 than 之後的部分，因为有表时间的字 (in any previous election)，故可以将 it was 省略。 四、如此便得到原题答案 (B) 的 a greater proportion than in any previous election. 供参考 --

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