72. The number of undergraduate degrees in engineering awarded by colleges and universities in the United States increased by more than twice from 1978 to 1985.
(A) increased by more than twice
(B) increased more than two times
(C) more than doubled
(D) was more than doubled
(E) had more than doubled
正確答案是(C)
而我要問的是(B)選項,為什麼不對,ETS解釋如下:
B distorts the sentence’s meaning, stating that the
number of engineering degrees conferred increased on
more than two distinct occasions.
這是不是說B誤把兩倍的成長改成兩個分開的時間或事件?
但是我在字典上有查到一個例句:
Foreign investments there increased five times.
那裡的外國投資增加了五倍
也就是說
increase xx times應該是可以用的,難道問題是出在more than???
不懂
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