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1、chap1 comparing apples and oranges the concept of “apples and oranges” relates to the consistency of anything that is compared with something else.whenever you make a comparison in sentence, you have to make sure the things you compare are , in fact, comparable.than主語比較1. because the earths crust is

2、 more solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake in the eastern united states will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will a quake of comparable magnitude occurring in the west.(d-p35-9)2.local residents claim that san antonio, texas, has more good mexica

3、n american restaurants than does any other city in the united states. (d-p78-14)3.the guiding principles of the tax plan released by the treasury department could have even greater significance for the economy than do the particulars of the plan. (c-p8-6)4. because natural gas is composed mostly of

4、methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel. (c-p8-16)5. the united states government employs a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than does any other government. (c-p22-8)6. the pay of s

5、enior executives increased in 1990 by a larger percentage than did the wages of other salaried workers. (c-p67-5)7. a newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the united states into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit

6、than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost. (c-p67-10)8. los angeles has a higher number of family dwellings per capita than does any other large city. (b-p76-16)9. inflation has made many americans reevaluate their assumptions about the future, they still expect to live better than their paren

7、ts did, but not so well as they once thought they could. (b-p80-22)10. .in an assessment of the problem faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant. (b-p80-25)11. in the united states, trade unions encountered far m

8、ore intense opposition in their struggle for social legitimacy than did the organized labor movements of most other democratic nations. (b-p84-9)12. even though bela bartoks music has proved less popular than igor stravinskys and less influential than arnold schonbergs, it is no less important. (b-p

9、84-22)13. in his eagerness to find a city worthy of priam, the german archaeologist schliemann cut through troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years more ancient than the city known to homers heroes. (b-p84-24)14. several studies have found that the coronary patients who exercise most activ

10、ely are at least fifty percent less likely than those who are sedentary to die of a heart attack. (b-p88-11)15. carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in brittany are nearly 2,000 years older than any of their supposed mediterranean predecessors. (b-p106-5)16. a study commissioned by

11、 the department of agriculture showed that if calves exercise and associate with other calves, they have require less medication and gain weight more quickly than those raised in confinement. (b-p162-2)17. tiny quantities of more than thirty rare gases, most of them industrial by-products, threaten

12、to warm the earths atmosphere even more rapidly over the next fifty years than carbon dioxide will. (b-p162-23)18. .domestic automobile manufacturers have invested millions of dollars in research to develop cars even more gasoline-efficient than those at present on the road. (b-p218-19)19. the quest

13、ion of whether to divest themselves of stock in companies that do business in south africa is particularly troublesome for the nations 116 private black colleges because their economic bases are often more fragile than those of most predominantly white colleges. (b-p218-25)20. inuits of the bering s

14、ea were isolated from contact with europeans longer than were aleuts or inuits of the north pacific and northern alaska. (b-p236-14)21. aging is a property of all animals that reach a fixed size at maturity, and the variations in life spans among different species are far greater than those among in

15、dividuals of the same species: a fruit fly is ancient at 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoises at 150. (a-p1-18)22. the mistakes children make in learning to speak tell linguists more about how children learn language than do the correct forms they use. (a-p1-2

16、8)23. freedmans survey showed that people living in small towns and rural areas consider themselves no happier than do people living in big cities. (a-p1-30)24. increases in the cost of energy, turmoil in the international money markets, and the steady erosion of the dollar have altered the investme

17、nt strategies of united states corporations more radically than those of foreign corporations. (a-p1-83)25. holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on defending its coasts from rising seas than the united states does on military defense. (a-p1-234)26. in 1982 the median inco

18、me for married-couple families with a wage-earning wife was $9,000 more than that for families in which only the husband was employed. (a-p1-238)27. the unskilled workers at the allenby plant realized that their hourly rate of $4.11 to $4.75 was better than that offered by many nearby factories. (b-

19、p84-17)28. chicago, whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other american city, was plagued by labor troubles like the pullman strikes of 1894. (a-p1-150)29. judge forer recognizes that the american judicial system provides more safeguards for accused perso

20、ns than does the legal system of any other country, but she believes there is a great disparity between the systems of justice accorded rich and poor. (a-p1-198)30. the decisions of john marshall, the fourth chief justice, have has a greater influence than those of any other chief justice in history

21、. (e-p42-16)31. the man was always aware, sometimes proudly and sometimes resentfully, that he was a small-town midwesterner thrust into a world dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than he. (e-p75-11)介詞1. more ancient ebyptian temples were constructed in the reign of ra

22、mses than in any other.(d-p10-2)2. certain pesticides can become ineffective if used repeatedly in the same place; one reason is suggested by the finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that

23、 are free of such chemicals.(d-p35-11)3. st. johns , newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as paris, france, but in spring st. johns 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 northe

24、ast storm. (d-p78-21)4.some psychiatric studies indicate that among distinguished artists manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times more prevalent than in the population at large. (d-p108-11)5. the investor who is uncertain about the future is more likely to put money into blue

25、-chip stocks or treasury bills than into gold. (c-p41-20)6. nowhere in prakta is the influence of modern european architecture more apparent than in its government buildings. (b-p80-18)7. according to a recent study, the elderly in the united states are four times more likely to give regular finacia

26、l aid to their children than to receive it from them. (a-p1-64)8. the human growth hormone, made by the pituitary gland, is secreted in higher concentrations during sleep than during waking hours. (a-p1-69)9. during the 1980s it became clear that for environmentalists who sought financial aid, it wa

27、s far more efficient to solicit private funds than to go to state or federal agencies. (a-p1-166)10. .one reason more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year is undoubtedly that school vacations give adolescents more free time. (e-p75-25)than ever, than an

28、ticipated1. new techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that records radiation from surface areas, have made it possible to study in greater detail than ever before the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river. (d-p108-16)2. the report on the gross national productthe nations tot

29、al production of goods and servicesshowed that second-quarter inflation was somewhat lower than previously estimated and that the savings rate was slightly higher. (c-p8-10)3. the spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot

30、 errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than anticipated. (a-p1-33)4. the reports from the department of commerce indicated that the economy had grown at an annual rate much higher than most economists had predicted. (a-p1-143)5. the amount of paper that will be recycled this year is expec

31、ted to be greater than ever, due to new mandatory recycling laws in municipalities across the nation. (a-p1-154)6. the financial crash of october 1987 demonstrated that the worlds capital markets are more closely integrated than ever before and that events in one part of the global village may be tr

32、ansmitted to the rest of the villagealmost instantaneously. (b-p218-5)賓語1. bihar is indias state, with an annual percapita income of $111 lower than that of the most impoverished countries of the world. (d-p72-16)2. although napoleons army entered russia with far more supplies than for any previous

33、campaign, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.(d-p35-10)3. in addition to having more protein than wheat does, rice has protein of higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet. (b-p106-19)4. once positioned in space, the hubble space telescope w

34、ill capture light from source twenty times fainter than those that can be detected by ground-based instruments. (a-p1-57)5. .in his work, leon forrests work is more reminiscent of henry millers obsessive narratives and toni morrisons mythic languages than james joyces internal explorations. (e-p65-1

35、7)than+句子1. that the new managing editor rose from the publications “soft” news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than that she is a woman. (d-p108-19)2. florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of them in such high-paying fields as e

36、lectronics and banking, making the states economy far more diversified than it was ten years ago. (b-p106-25)3. since the movie was released seventeen ufos have been sighted in the state in the state, more than had been sighted in the past ten years. (a-p1-168)4. a large rise in the number of housin

37、g starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industrys economic health much more robust than it was five years ago. (a-p1-170)5. the rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than they are

38、in national elections because local elections typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.(a-p1-171)6. in japan elderly people are treated with far greater respect than they are in most western countries. (a-p1-172)7. for many travelers, charter vacations often

39、turn out to cost considerably more than they originally seemed. (a-p1-188)more than, less than 及其他。1. founded in 1983, the magazine has since more than doubled its circulation and its advertising. (c-p22-11)2. the number of undergraduate degrees in engineering awarded by colleges and universities in

40、 the united states more than doubled from 1978 to 1985. (b-p177-6)3. degler does more than merely summarize existing research; he constructs a coherent picture of two centuries of studies dealing with the changing roles of women. (a-p1-123)4. .a labor department study states that the number of women

41、 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.(b-p142-1)5. in 1978 only half the women granted child support by a court received the amount awarded; more than a mil

42、lion others had no support agreements whatsoever. (b-p162-15)6. no less remarkable than the development of the compact disc has been the use of the new technology to revitalize, in better sound than was ever before possible, some of the classic recorded performances of the pre-lp era. (b-p142-8)7. e

43、ven though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounted to less than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-care inflation. (b-p218-8)8. with total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and

44、 fewer new subscribers than last year, the new england theatre company is in danger of losing its building. (a-p1-151)9. no less an authority than walter cronkite has reported that half of all americans never read a book. (a-p1-117)9/.less detrimental than the effects of bacterial transformation are

45、 the effects of bacterial deterioration: spoilage of food, corrosion of metals, decay of wood, and other undesirable alternations of substances. (e-p20-7)10. irs provision 354-b requires that an s corporation with assets of greater than $200,000 send w-2 forms to its full-and part-time employees on

46、or before jan.31. (a-p1-156)11. the visiting pharmacologists concluded that the present amalgam of chinese and western medicine is probably as good as, or better than, any other system that might be devised for the patients treated at the nan kai hospital in tian-jing. (c-p41-10)12. two new studies

47、indicate that many people become obese more because their bodies burn calories too slowly than because they eat too much. (c-p90-6)13. 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. (b

48、-p80-21)14. dr. hakutas research among hispanic children in the united states indicates that the more the children use both spanish and english, the greater their intellectual advantage in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic. (b-p106-7)15. as a result of the continuing decline in t

49、he birth rate, fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980s than did in the 1960s and 1970s, a twenty-year period during which people born after the war swelled the ranks of workers. (a-p1-129)16. the rarer something becomes, whether it is a baseball card or a musical recording or a postage

50、stamp, the more avidly it is sought by collectors. (d-p78-7)17. of the twin supernovas, the more recently discovered it the larger, but it is the smaller one that has irrevocably altered astronomists ideas about the origins of the universe. (e-p65-23)as sothat, so as to, such as., such that.1. facto

51、ry outlet stores, operated by manufactures, are usually located miles from downtown and regional shopping centers so that they do not compete directly with department stores in the same trading area.(d-p10-16)2. unlike a hurricane, which can be observed from within a tornado is so small that such a

52、study has not been practical.(d-p44-14)3. the black hole has entered the popular imagination as an object so massive that neither light nor matter can escape its gravitational pull.(d-p78-1)4. most energy analysts now agree that the costs of building and maintaining nuclear reactors are so high that

53、 nuclear power is unlikely to prove cheaper than coal or oil in the long run.(d-p108-1)5. the evolution of the technology of microelectronics over the past decade has been so rapid that it is sometimes called a revolution. (c-p8-3)6. among the cossacks, vegetable farming was once so despised that it

54、 was forbidden on pain of death(c-p41-13)7. the number of mountain gorillas is declining so rapidly that the population was halved in the twenty years between a count made by george schaller in 1960 and the one made by dian fossey in 1980. (c-p41-23)8. in 1527 king henry viii sought to have his marr

55、iage to queen catherine annulled so that he could marry anne boleyn. (c-p90-2)9. so poorly educated and trained are many young recruits to the united states work force that many business executives fear this country will lose its economic preeminence. (c-p90-8)10. .roy wilkins was among the last of

56、a generation of civil rights activists who led the nation through decades of change so profound that many young americans can not imagine, much less remember, what segregation was like. (b-p80-2)11. an array of tax incentive has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant

57、has capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build. (b-p106-20)12. congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.(b-p177-1)13. students in

58、 the metropolitan school district are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries. (b-p218-10)14. judicial rules in many states require that the identities of all prosecution witnesses be made kno

59、wn to defendants so that they can attempt to rebut the testimony, but the constisution explicitly requires only that the defendant have the opportunity to confront an accuser in court. (b-p236-18)15. although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries