【正文】 Exercises 2. Directions: In each of the following sentences, there are four underlined parts with one part improperly used. Identify that part and put it right in a proper form. 1） On the whole, ambitious students are much likely to succeed in A B their studies than are those with little ambition. C D 2） A great many teachers firmly believe that English is one of the A B most poor taught subjects in high schools at present. C D 3） John’ chance of being elected chairman of the mittee is far A B C greater than Mike. D B ar more likely C most poorly taught D Mike’s Exercises 4） My knowledge of English literature is more inferior to hers. A B C D 5） The harder she tried, the more badly she danced before such a A B C large audience. D 6） The population of China is larger than any other country in the world. A B C D 7） That product that we sell at a slightly higher price is the more A B preferable to the one of a lower price. C D inferior B the worse D that of any country B cancel “the more” Exercises 8） He took down the largest of the two dictionaries and began to A B search for the word he had misspelled. C D the larger B Exercises 3. Directions: Put the following sentences into English. 1）我犯的錯誤比你多多了。 2）你的猜測與正確的答案相差最遠(yuǎn)。 3）我姐姐比你的大哥大 3歲。 I made a lot more mistakes than you (did). Your guess is the furthest from the correct answer. My elder sister is three years older than/senior to your eldest brother. Exercises 4）這個消息使教師們比學(xué)生還感到意外。 5）汽油比前幾年貴了一倍。 6）我感冒更厲害了。這次感冒是我最厲害的一次。 Petrol is twice as expensive as it was a few years ago. My cold is getting worse. It’s the worst cold I’ve ever had. The news was more surprising to the teachers than to the students. Additional Exercises little man was ___ more than one meter fifty tall.（ 1995149）（ 1997136） A. nearly B. quite C. hardly D. almost tap water were as dangerous as some people think ___ would be getting sick.（ 1998141） A. a lot of more us B. more a lot of us C. a lot of us more D. a lot more of us , almost every scientist now finds it impossible to read all the works relevant to his own subject,__ extensively outside of it.(1993年 1月六級題） A. much more to read B. much less to read C. much less reading D. still more reading individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is __ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.(2021年考研題 ) A. everything except B. anything but C. no less than D. nothing more than population of many Alaska cities has __ doubled in the past three years.(托福題 ) A. larger than B. more than C. as great as D. as many as