132. According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about equivalent to the enrollment of the nation’s four-year colleges and universities.
(A) equivalent to the enrollment of
(B) the equivalent of those enrolled in
(C) equal to those who are enrolled in
(D) as many as the enrollment of
(E) as many as are enrolled in
請教一下這句
文法怎麼看怎麼怪...
天馬行空的想法中有一個可能---
如果原句是...eight million people, the people who enrolled in the nation's four-year colleges...are about as many as eight million people
難道是把逗點後倒裝成:
...eight million people, about as many as are the people who enrolled in the nation’s four-year colleges...
然後再把the people who去掉???
抱歉我很像在亂講
可是我想不到有什麼可以解釋:
1. about怎麼可以接子句
2. are enrolled是什麼東西...不太可能是倒裝句吧? 人自己去enroll就好不用被動吧???那如果是are 那些enrolled的人, 中間的主詞跑哪去了...
感謝大家
ETS解釋:
The phrases equivalent to in A, the equivalent of in B, and equal to in C have too broad a range of meanings to be used precisely here: that is, they can suggest more than merely numerical equality. Also, as quantitative expressions, equivalent and equal often modify nouns referring to uncountable things, as in “an equivalent amount of resistance” or “a volume of water equal to Lake Michigan.” To establish numerical comparability between groups with countable members, the phrase as many as is preferable. Choice D, however, uses this phrase improperly in comparing eight million people to enrollment, not to other people. The comparison in E, the best choice, is logical because people is understood as the subject of are enrolled.