[問題]大全987-Q9

[mcpopcorn2001]

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

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

答案d

我選b問題是為什麼不能用the numbers of呢? 這不是表復數嗎?

是不是要對應accounted for more than sixty-two percent
所以後面必須 increased by more than thirty-five percent

請大牛指教
謝謝

[dibert8]

因為只有一個 number, 而且限定為 women employed outside the home, 所以是 the number.

是的. increased by 和 accounted for 平衡.

ETS 其實蠻講究結構對稱.

[mcpopcorn2001]

感謝你!

[iambear2320]

increased by XX %是很慣用的寫法壓