语法比较之总结完全版——GMAT

1、1 主语比较12 主语比较特殊形式22 双重比较：（主语+状语vs.主语+状语，一般需要用those, that等）.22.2 整句比较33 主语比较错误形式（不能用they/it,要用those/that）44 谓语比较55 状语比较55 状语比较特殊形式76 宾语比较77 特殊比较（其实不是比较，看起来像而已）71主语比较Prep 1-132A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO's now earn an averaqe of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers do.可

2、以替换成:A recent review of pay scales indicates that, on averaqe, CEO's now earn 419 times the pay of bluecollar workers, as compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio jn 1980.Prepl-161Unlike the other major planets, Pluto has a hiqhly eccentric orbit and is thus closer to the Sun than Neptune is fo

3、r 20 years out of every 230-year cycle, even though it is commonly described as the remotest planet in the solar system(is thus closer than N to the sun)According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, aspiri n preve nts blood clots just as well as a commonly used and more expe

4、nsive bloodthinninq druq doesPrep 1-133省略谓语In the past several years, astronomers have detected more than 80 massive planets, most of them at least as larqe as Jupiter, circlinq other stars.Prepl-134省略谓语，农语后置Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolle

5、d in lowerend insurance Dians that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending less time with eachPrepl-142s省略谓语，农语后置According to a 1996 study published in the Journal of Human Resources, America ns of Middle Eastern descent were twice as likely as t

6、he average American to be selfemDloved(衣语后置。 to be self-employed as the average American)GWD6-Q29:Authoritative paents ae moe likely than peimissive parents to have children who as adolescents ae self-confident; hiqh in self-esteem, andesponsibly independent.87.(29293-!-item-!-188;#058&003892)Re

7、sults of a Un ited States study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine have show n that colleqe-educated women and women living in the South and West are significantlv more likelv to use supplemental hormones than women livinq in the Northeast and Midwest.（省略谓语）50.（27159-!-item-!-188;#058&

8、003134）Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study indicate that the patterns of stress that girls experienee are more likely to result in depression than Mthose that bovs experience.34. GWD17-Q34：No other food available to the birds on Delaware's beaches is as nutritious and ac

9、cessible as |re crab egq*（因为谓语单复数不一致，需要补出）9. GWD31-Q9Pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of learned subjects, Camille Saint-Saens （1835-1921） was among the most gifted and versatile musicia ns of his time and was, as many of his con temporaries were, deeply interested in Oriental t

10、hemes, （were还是补出来了，时态不一致）A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves exercise and associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than those raised in confinement.（含义上有歧义的情况下才需要补出动词）90.（29271-!-item-!-188;#058&004232）Diesel e

11、ngines bum as much as 30 percent less fuel than gasoline engines of comparable size, as well as emittinq far less carbon dioxide qas gpd far fewer of the other qases that have been implicated in global warming.（谓语不补，f Hihavinq beej）71.（28317-!-item-!-188;#058&003604）Paper production acco unts fo

12、r approximately 40 perce nt of the world's in dustrial use of wood, and the market for paper is qrowinq faster than the market foall other major wood products.2主语比较特殊形式2.1 双重比较：（主语+状语vs.主语+状语，一般需要用those, that等）单纯主语GWD3-30Today's technology allows manufacturers to mak学mall cars that ae more f

13、uelefficient than those at any other time in product!on history.（不能用 |he|）37. GWD25-Q37Though the law will require emissions testing of all diesel vehicles, from tractor trailers to excursion buses, it will have no effect on sport utility vehicles, almost all of which are gasoline powered and theref

14、ore not subject to emissionscontrol standards as stringent as those for diesel-powered vehicles.（as stringent as 修饰 standards,后而的 those 也指代 standards.町以改成：not subject to emissions- control standards as stringently as diesel-powered vehicles are, ae 必须补出來，否则可能表示跟 standard进行比较）Paper production account

15、s for approximately 40 percent of the world's industrial use of wood,and the market for Daoer is growing faster than the market for all other major wood products.114.(30583-!-item-!-188;#058&004275)sA study on couples1 retirement tansitions found that women who took new jobs after retiring f

16、rom their primary careers reported high marital satisfaction, more so than those who retired completely 主语加谓语According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were bom to women ovethe age of thirty than under it.Four times as many Americans were

17、killed as (those that)比较双方省略，突出比较对象本身。)Prep2-96.(29547-!-item-!-188;#058&004302)There are hopeful signs that we are shifting away from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels: more than ten times as much energy is qenerated throuqh wind power now 加 was the ca宛 (generated through wind Dower now than i

18、t was ) in 1990.(括号中的部分不对，I刃为用 jit)(可 以改成 |s was cienerated in 1990)Those small domestic mills will take more business from the big American steel mills than (those that) Wouid have been takerjy the foreign steel mills in the absense of quotas.(主动、被动比较)Currently, researchers collect far more backgro

19、und information on patients than (that which) js s(i idl、rzuiTi/for their trials.(省略 that which)GWD7-Q4:Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of themovies fewer than have been killed|by bee stings.nearly eight million people, as many as cue enrolled

20、in the nation's four-year colleges and universities(省略 了 those who)Prep2-39 (26492-!-item-!-188;#058&003168)As is the case with traditional pharmacies, prescriptions are the comerstone of a successful on line druqsto© since it is primarily prescriptions that attract the customers, who t

21、hen also buy other health-related items.A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, as was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers who

22、allowed growers to use it free of charge2.2整句比较Possible/necessary/previously thought/会省略 be 动词，如果前面加 了 currently, medically等，be动词就不省略了Prep 1 -45Applying a new method for analyzing the chemistry of tooth enamel, scientists have examined molars of prehuman ancestors and determined that their diets wer

23、e more varied than had been |(than they had been supposed to be )Prep 1-152Recent research indicates that two doduE arthritis druqs mav not be as safe initially believed to be.Prep 1-43(than people previously thought they develop, or what)77.(28689-!-item-!-188;#058&003708)Scientists have found

24、signs that moving water changed the chemical makeup of the surface ofMars jn recent eras and have therefore concluded that the planet's cust harbors up to threeA one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been founp in the Afar region of Erit

25、rea, indicating that modern humans developed much earlier than Dretimes as much water up to three times as much water as (that which have been)Deviouslv thoughtGWD7-Q32:A surge jn new home sales and a drop in weekly unemploymentthat the economymiqht not be as weak as (the economy) jome analysts pevi

26、ou?Y thouq诚to be).22.(25727-!-item-!-188;#058&00212刀The company announeed that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts hdd expectejand that its business would improve jn the second half of the year.at speeds much hiqher than (those that)断 currently possiblQ (状语比较，比较的是主

27、语)areas that exhibit as many of the critical features as (those that are) boriblc3 主语比较错误形式（不能用they/it,要用those/that）Today's techno logy allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuelefficie nt now tha n at any time in their production history(C )A. small cars more fuel-efficient now than at a

28、ny time in theirB. small cars that are more fuel-efficient than they were at any time in their 不能丿H theyC. small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time inD. more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in theirE. more fuel-efficient small cars now than at any t

29、ime inSoaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a qeateproportion than (it was) in any previous election(公掉 it was。t 指 proportion,不对)34. GWD30-Q34：正确Books in Europea n libraries last Ion ger tha n books in libraries in the United States

30、because, althouqh the climate in EuODe is failv humid, libraries there ae not subjected to the extremes of temDeatue and humidity that damage collections in the United States, nf 以的.同一套 extremes 即 damage 了欧 洲的，也damage T美国的。4谓语比较She received less than she asked for.1.(24465-!-item-!-188;#058&0009

31、82)To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as they qrow naturally, cuttinq their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special dietsPrepl-36.(26371-!-item-!-188;#058&002614)Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choi

32、ces of subject-the advances in modern surgery, the discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves- wee as disturbinq to his own time as they are compelling for ours.5状语比较GWDl-32状语比较.自己和自己比To develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers wou

33、ld have to know a qeat deal more than thev do now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.34： GWD-18-Q31状语比较，口己和门（2比Between 1990 and 2000 the global economy gew more than it did duing the 10000 veas from the beqinninq of agriculture to 1950.24.(25819-!-item-!-188;#058&002130)Empl

34、oyment costs rose 2.8 percent in the 12 months that ended in September, slightly less than thev did in the year that ended in the previous quarter.There is one PC for every 32 pupils in American four time as many as there were four years ago.146.(32521-!-item-!-188;#058&007141)The gyrfalcon. an

35、Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times qreater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's (E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than (E不对，没有说明是谁的numbers)GWD1-16Soaring television costs accounted for m

36、ore than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992z a qeateproportion than (it was不对，不能川it,而丄因为时态致，可省c仃时候用that,这 里也是可以省略的)in any previous election.55.(27389-!-item-!-188;#058&003179)Shipwrecks are more likely to be found undisturbed at great depths than in shallow coastal waters, wh

37、ere archaeological remains are exposed to tubulenee and are accessible to anyone in scuba gear, whether archaeologist, treasure hunter, or sport diver.106.(30167-!-item-!-188;#058&004112)Officials at the United States Mint believe that the Sacagawea dollar coin will be used as a substitute for f

38、our quarters more than for the dollar bill because it weighs only 8.1 qramsMB112.(30491-!-item-!-188;#058&004240)Though certain breeds of dog areenowned for their sense of smell, there is often a qeater differenee in seentinq ability between two members of a sinqle breed than between members of

39、d iff ere nt breeds A do sth than usual/everbefore/people expected(这个属主语比较特殊形式)GWD-18-Q11In no othehistorical sighting did Halley's comet cause such a worldwide sensation as in its return of 1910-1911Prep2-100 (29731-!-item-!-188;#058&004378)Patienee Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks e

40、xhibit preceded Madame Tussaud*s work by 30 years, became as well known foher eccentric pesonality as for heskillful wax rendeinqs of popular public fiqures. (well known as much for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures)As well known for a as for bWel

41、l known as much for a as for bWell known for a as much as for bThey are as likely to occur because of poor monitoring by boards of directors as to be caused by incentive compensation for managersNot so much asOne of the primary distinctions between our intelliqenee and that of other primates may lie

42、 not so much in anv specific skill as in our ability to extend knowledge gained in one context to new and different ones.Q27：TT-GWD 2-30Most jnsomnia is not an illness oa physical condition so much as a symptom of another problem that may simply be aeaction to certain medications, anxiety about trav

43、el, or stress before a job jnterview.Prep2-40.(26538-!-item-!-188;#058&003184)According to one expert, the cause of qenetic irreqularities in many breeds of dog is not so much that doqs are beinq bred folooks or to meet other narrow criteria as that the breeds have relatively few founding member

44、sNot so much .asNot .so much as5.1 状语比较特殊形式Therefore, if servers in Penn sylva nia regularly wrote 'Tha nk you" on restaura nt bills, their average in come from tips would be sign ifica ntly higher tha n it otherwise would have been.Virtually all patrons of the Pennsylvania restaurants in t

45、he study who were given a bill with ''Thank you" written on it left a larger tip than they otherwise would haveIf the group faces food scarcity, individuals in the group will reach reproductive maturity later than otherwise 6宾语比较Prepl-153A recent United States Census Bureau report shows that there are more than three times as many households where the children and gandchildren are living in their grandparents' home as there are households where the qrandparents are living in their children's or grandchildrerTs home.Prep2-9The Env