2012考研必备：考研英语语法精要(25)

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3.考比较级时，考生应把握
    (1)形容词和副词比较级的形式是否和比较连词对应出现，即是否符合原级比较及比较级的结构。如：
    Do you enjoy listening to records? I find records are often as good as, or better than an actual performance.
    On the whole, ambitious students are more likely to succeed in their studies than are those with little ambition.
    (2)比较的成分是否属于同类事物或同类概念。如：
    The number of registered participants in this year’s marathon was half that of last year’s.
    Young readers, more often than not, find the novels of Dickens far more exciting than Thackeray’s.
    (3)比较级的修饰语如 a little, a lot, the, any, even, far, hardly, lots, much, rather，还有表示倍数比较的词等，他们的位置是：修饰语+as…as…, 或修饰语+more…than…。如：
    Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills seven times more people each year than automobile accidents.
    “Do you regret paying five hundred dollars for the painting?” “No, I would gladly have paid twice as much for it.”
    (4)下列词和短语不用比较级形式却表示比较概念：
     inferior，minor，senior，prior，prefer to，superior，major，junior，preferable，differ from，compared with，in comparison with，different from，rather than。如：
    Their watch is superior to all the other watches on the market.