Prep Test1-142

[kotokolin]

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
又寫錯了, 考試的時候得把眼睛睜開

考idiom: as...as + be likely to , 所以可以去掉(D)和(E)
剩下A, B, C
(A) 變成"average"被employed啦! 平均數不會工作所以不用被僱用@@
(B) 同類比較, 省略了were=> as+ (were)+ the average American to be self-employed
(C) that 指national average, 那they指誰???

[dibert8]

(A) (C) Americans 和 average 比較不同類
(B) 時態一樣,動詞 (was) 應省略

不過 (B) 有點疑問: 只有一個美國人合理嗎? 還是 the average Americans 比較好呢?

[Kal-El]

這個the average American應是泛指

[dibert8]

一般的美國人
Americans {of Middle Eastern descent} 和 the average American 比較

[pimi]

請問這裡的descent是當血統翻嗎？

[小花]

我在寫這題時猜想應該是指後裔

fron Collins

You use descent to talk about a person's family background, for example their nationality or social status. (FORMAL)
All the contributors were of African descent.
= origin, ancestry

[ad264]

請問一下句意寫 sb was likely to be self-employed是要特別強調什麼？強調自己當老闆的意願嗎？

查一下字典 likely to be N/adj

不過很多題我也一直看到 to be adj，像grow to be...所以想要請教這種類似的用法是單純因為to V要接adj，所以用 to be adj還是句意上有別的用意呢？

謝謝

[larry.tw]

(A) (C) Americans 和 average 比較不同類
(B) 時態一樣,動詞 (was) 應省略

不過 (B) 有點疑問: 只有一個美國人合理嗎? 還是 the average Americans 比較好呢?

請問一下,這樣B選項were/was省略不會有不清楚的狀況嗎?
我知道如果是主詞比較的話,不是were/was要補出來才會清楚嗎!!?

[Kal-El]

此處不會不清楚
若是及物Vt, 有S和O須區別, 則S須補出V來區別.

[larry.tw]

所以be動詞應該不是及物動詞吧!??
那是否可以用前面be動詞來判斷as..as後面一定可以省略be動詞?

[Kal-El]

要看是否有歧異

[CUGGYER]

as...as的be動詞通常都可以省略，因為可以清楚辦判斷所要比較的對象就是主詞
但如果有含時間上的比較，不同時態的be動詞則一定不能省略。
本題是主詞部份Americans {of Middle Eastern descent} 和 the average American的 比較， 即使省略be動詞，也不會造成誤解，因此省略是可以接受的。