SAT语法考点比较结构
在SAT语法中，比较结构要求的比较对象概念要对等，比较的性质要一致，比较的结构要平衡。当形容词和副词用于比较结构时，它们采取特殊的句法形式。下面就是此考点的专项练习。
1. The primatologist has argued that sustained observation of a few animals provides better behavioral data than does intermittent observation of many animals.
(A) provides better behavioral data than does intermittent observation of many animals
(B) provides better behavioral data than many animals are observed intermittently
(C) providing better behavioral data than does intermittent observation of many animals
(D) do provide better behavioral data than intermittent observation of many animals do
(E) in contrast to intermittent observation of many animals, provides better behavioral data
2. In a recent year, more tourists from the United States visited museums in Great Britain than Canada.
(A) Canada
(B) Canada did
(C) compared to Canada's
(D) Canadian ones
(E) in Canada
3. The campus newspaper does not print as much world news as does my hometown;
(A) as does my hometown
(B) as does my hometown newspaper
(C) compared to what my hometown does
(D) like my hometown newspaper does
(E) like the one in my hometown does
4. The duties of a firefighter are often as dangerous as a police officer.
(A) as a police officer
(B) as those of a police officer
(C) like a police officer
(D) such as a police officer
(E) like a police officer's
5. Finding a wide variety of financial services in a small city is usually not as easy as it is in metropolitan areas.
(A) it is
(B) is that
(C) for those
(D) for that
(E) are those
6. Today the primary role of advertising may be to appeal and persuade rather than what it once did, educating and informing.
(A) what it once did, educating and informing
(B) what it once did, which was educating and informing
(C) what it once was, education and information
(D) educating and informing, what it once did
(E) what it once was, to educate and inform
7. The programmers always talked of having too much to do, but in truth they had a lesser amount of work to to than their colleagues.
(A) they had a lesser amount of work to do than
(B) their work was the least among
(C) they were having less work to do than
(D) the amount of work they had to do was the least of
(E) they had less work to do than
8. Film audiences in the 1950's saw more musicals than the 1960's and 1970's.
(A) than
(B) than did
(C) than the films of
(D) than with the audiences in
(E) than did audiences in
9. The revolt against Victorianism was perhaps even more marked in poetry than either fiction or drama.
(A) either fiction or drama
(B) either fiction or in drama
(C) either in fiction or drama
(D) in either fiction or drama
(E) in either fiction or in drama
10. The eerie songs of humpback whales, often lower in pitch and longer than birds, are intriguing to scientists partly because whales have no functional vocal cords,
(A) The eerie songs of humpback whales, often lower in pitch and longer than birds,
(B) The eerie songs of humpback whales, which are often lower in pitch and last longer than birds,
(C) Humpback whales' eerie songs, often pitched lower and longer that that of birds,
(D) The eerie songs of humpback whales often lower in pitch and lasting longer than those of birds,
(E) Often being lower in pitch and lasting longer than birds, the eerie songs of humpback whales
11. In the United States, the industrial use of plastics is greater than steel, aluminum, and
A B C D
copper combined. No error
E
12. Because they painted scenes of life as ordinary people lived it, rather than scenes from myths,
A B C
many nineteenth-century American artists differed from earlier times. No error
D E
13. Lions and tigers may be identical in size, but the tiger is the fiercer animal and the lion the
A B C D
strongest. No error
E
14. The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was once more widely read and was more
A B C
popular in high schools in the United States than Charlotte Bronte. No error
D E
15. It is far easier to ride a bicycle than explaining in words exactly how a bicycle is ridden.
A B C D
No error
E
16. There is probably no story more dramatic than baseball’s great hitter and right
A B C D
fielder, Hank Aaron. No error.
E
17. A mixture of jazz and classical idioms, the music of Gershwin was more innovative than most of his contemporaries.
(A) than most of his contemporaries
(B) than most of his contemporaries were
(C) than were most of his contemporaries
(D) than that of most of his contemporaries
(E) than most of his contemporaries, as far as music is concerned
18. Twice as many bird species inhabit Ecuador as in North America.
(A) as in
(B) as inhabit
(C) instead of in
(D) when compared to
(E) than
19. Because of its innovativeness and its effective presentation, Mary’s science
A
project received more judge’s votes at the exhibit than did Jim. No error
B C D E
20. At the art show, Amy enjoyed looking at her friend Mark’s innovative paintings,
A
which she thought were more original than the other artists. No error
B C D E
21. Just how critical an improved balance of trade is to a healthy economy has never been more
A B C D
clearer than it is now. No error
E
22. For many a brilliant architect, being free to innovate is more important than being well paid.
(A) being free to innovate is more important than
(B) having freedom of innovation is more important than
(C) there is more importance in the freedom to innovate than
(D) freedom to innovate has more importance than
(E) to have the freedom to innovate is more important than
23. In the early songs of the Beatles, one hears plaintive Blues-inspired melodies that would seem to be more a product of rural southern America than an English industrial city.
(A) a product of rural southern America than an English industrial city
(B) a product from rural southern America than that of an English industrial city
(C) produced in rural southern America than by an English industrial city
(D) a product out of rural southern America than from an English industrial city
(E) a product of rural southern America than of an English industrial city
24. Someone living in a technological, consumption-oriented culture probably taxes the environment at a rate many times that of a country such as Myanmar.
(A) that of a country such as Myanmar
(B) that of someone living in a country like Myanmar
(C) what you find in Myanmar, for instance
(D) the rate in a country such as Myanmar
(E) a citizen of Myanmar, for instance
25. Unlike the hollow body of an acoustic guitar, which acts as a sound box to project sound, the solid-body electric guitar is almost soundless without the aid of an amplification system.
(A) the hollow body of an acoustic guitar, which acts
(B) the hollow body that an acoustic guitar has, it acts
(C) an acoustic guitar’s hollow body, acting
(D) an acoustic guitar, whose hollow body acts
(E) an acoustic guitar and its hollow body, acting
26. About 35 percent of the world’s orange juice is produced by Florida, compared with Brazil, the world’s largest orange producer, which has nearly 50 percent.
(A) Brazil, the world’s largest orange producer, which has nearly 50 percent
(B) Brazil, with nearly 50 percent, it is the world’s largest orange producer
(C) nearly 50 percent that are produced by Brazil as the world’s largest orange producer
(D) the production of Brazil, the world’s largest orange producer, with nearly 50 percent
(E) nearly 50 percent produced by Brazil, the world’s largest orange producer
27. Winston knew that if he practiced often enough he would one day be able to play the piano as well as his brother’s playing.
(A) his brother’s playing
(B) that of his brother
(C) his brother’s
(D) his brother could
(E) what his brother did
28. This legend about Admiral Nelson, like other naval heroes, are based only partially on fact.
(A) like other naval heroes, are
(B) like those of other naval heroes, are
(C) like other naval heroes, is
(D) like legends about other naval heroes, are
(E) like legends about other naval heroes, is
29. Scientist Brain has studied two-and three-year-olds’ “spoken stories,” often more color-fully imagined than elementary school children, and recorded them in his book The Folk stories of Children.
A) often more color-fully imagined than elementary school children
B) which are often more colorfully imagined than elementary school children
C) often more color-fully imagined than that of elementary school children
D) often more color-fully imagined than those of elementary school children
E) though often more colorfully imagined than elementary school children’s
30. The villagers found the visitors equally as fascinating as their customs were mystifying.
(A) equally as fascinating as their customs were
(B) equally fascinating and their customs;
(C) as fascinating and their customs
(D) as fascinating as their customs were
(E) as fascinating and their customs were
专项训练：1-5：AEBBA 6-10：EEEDD 11-15：DDDDB 16-20：DDBDD
21-25：DAEBD 26-30：EDEDD