Prep-T1-Q50

[dibert8]

50.

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

(A) are those that boys experience
(B) what boys experience
(C) boys' experience would
(D) boys' stress patterns do
(E) stress patterns of boys




Ans: A

比較對象 = patterns of stress
(A) those = patterns of stress
(B) what = those that
(A) (B) 差在 be 動詞.有什麼好的理由需要 be 動詞咧?

[dibert8]

有兩個比較的對象: 1. 主詞 patterns of stress, 2. 受詞 depression
因此 (B) what 可以是 patterns of stress that, 也可以是 depression that
加 be 動詞(跟主詞的動詞一樣), 表示和主詞比較.

[ggethan]

比較本題和pp1-142
142. (32496-!-item-!-188;#058&006253)

According to a 1996 study published in the Journal of Human Resources, Americans of Middle Eastern descent were twice as likely as was the national average to be self-employed.
(A) as was the national average to be self-employed
(B) as the average American to be self-employed
(C) as the national average that they would be self-employed
(D) to be self-employed than was the average American
(E) that they would be self-employed than was the national average
答案(b)
142不須補出助動詞was的原因是(b)把to be self employed放到句尾,使得前面只有主詞跟be動詞,不補出也很清楚
若題目把to be seld employed搬到前面,就要加was了:...Americans of Middle Eastern descent were twice as likely to be self-employed as average American was

而本題就是因為把to result in depression搬到前面,所以必須補出are

[hwatai]

(B)的what，用在比較時顯得不精確
what 不一定等於 patterns of stress that，what可以等於任何事 (無限定)

只有those以代名詞的功用才發揮同類比較的意思 (被限定)

[lucyyeh]

請問為什麼A選項的are跑到前面去了?

[Brendaphyu]

倒裝句
原句than those that boys experience are more likely to....
are後面重複的資訊剩省略只留be動詞，會頭重腳輕所以要倒裝到前面