专题09 形容词和副词比较等级易错点解题方法
英语中的形容词和副词有三个等级,即原级、比较级和高最级。比较级主要用于两者比较,最高级主要用于多者比较。注意:不能使用双重比较等级。即构成比较级时不能既加词尾-er,又在其前加more;构成最高级时不能既在词尾加-est,又在其前加most,如不能说more better, most earliest 等。不过比较级+and+比较级这样的形式却完全可用。如:I am getting fatter and fatter. 我越来越胖了。
 使用比较等级要注意合乎逻辑,高考常见考点及解题方法:
考点1:原级比较一般结构  as … as ; not as … as ; the same … as ;
There are as good fish in the sea ___ ever came out of it.
  A. than      B. like      C. as    D. so
【答案】: C.
【解析】:最佳答案C. as.  结构  as … as  ; 意思是:.海里的好鱼是取之不尽的。
考点2A is to B what / as X is Y ;
1. Nine is to three____ three is to one.
A. when    B. that    C. which    D. what
【答案】
【解析】:最佳答案D. what。固定句型。意思是:九比三就像三比一。
2. Intellect is to the mind ___ sight is to the body.
  A. what    B. as      C. that    D. Like
【答案】
【解析】:最佳答案A. what 意思是:知识之于心灵,犹如视力之于身体。
考点3:倍数或几分之几。
1. A new laptop costs about ____ of a second-hand one.
A. the price of three times              B. three times the price
C. as much as the three times price      D. three times more than the price
【答案】
【解析】:最佳答案 B. three times the price意思是:一台新笔记本电脑的价格大约是二手笔记本电脑的两倍。
2. The square itself is five hundred yards wide, five times ___ the size of St. Peter's in Rome.
  A. / .      B. that of  .      C. which is.        D. of
【答案】
【解析】:最佳答案A. /意思是:广场本身有五百码宽,是罗马圣彼得大教堂的五倍大。
3. Some dieters find that after their dieting is over, they eat twice _____ they did before their diet.
  A.more than    B.as many as      C.much than     D.as much as
【答案】D. 
【解析】:最佳答案D. as much as意思是:一些节食者发现,节食结束后,他们的食量是节食前的两倍。
4. A person's blood flows through a pipeline of vessels that, end to end, would stretch more than____ half times around the Earth at the equator.1991
  A. twice      B. two and a   C. two and  D. twice and
【答案】B. 
【解析】:最佳答案 B.  two and a 意思是:一个人的血液通过一条血管管道流动,这条管道的一端到另一端的长度是地球赤道的2.5倍以上.
考点4more than 有很多种用法:
(1) more than “不仅是,非常,十分等,用法和意义较多。
It was ___ success ___ we had hoped.
A. than    B. a ... more than    C. as much of a .... as  D. a ... as much as
【答案】B. 
【解析】:最佳答案 B. a success more than意思是: 这比我们所希望的要成功得多.
(2) more …than “与其说……不如说,不是……而是
Do you know Tim’s brother? He is ___  of a sportsman___ Tim.
A. much more ... than      B. more ...  than    C. more  than    D. more a ...than
【答案】B. 
【解析】:最佳答案 B你认识蒂姆的哥哥吗?他比蒂姆更像一个运动员。
(3) no more than 仅仅;两者都不
Many play for fun, or for_____ their peers’ praise. 
  A. no more than    B. any more than    C. no less than    D. much more than 
【答案】:A.
【解析】:最佳答案A.no more than。许多人仅仅是为了好玩,或者最多是被同侪夸奖。
(4) not more than 不超过;前者不如后者
Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably _____a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.
  A. no more      B. not more     C. even more      D. much more
【答案】:B.
【解析】:最佳答案 B. not more。人口过剩对人类构成了严重的威胁。然而,它对人类的
威胁可能并不比环境破坏更严重。 
(5) no less than = as much as 意为:竟有之多,多达强调多
(6) not less than 意为不少于,至少,客观地描述
. John is____ hardworking than his sister, but he failed in the exam.
  A. no less    B. no more    C. not less    D. no so
【答案】A.
【解析】:最佳答案 A 约翰和他妹妹一样用功,但他考试不及格。 
考点5:在more … than 结构中,than 有时可看作关系代词,相当于than what…
1. The research requires more money than ______.
  A. have been put in   B. has been put in  C. being put in  D. to be put in
【答案】:B.
【解析】:最佳答案 B. has been put in  这项研究需要的钱比投入的还要多。
2. There ought to be less anxiety over the perceived risk of mountain climbing than _______ in the public mind today.
  A. Exists  B. Exist  C. Existing  D. to exist
【答案】A.
【解析】:最佳答案 A. Exists 人们不应该像现在公众认为的那样对登山的潜在风险感到焦虑。
考点6so much as用在否定句中:与其说,不如说
1. It is not___ much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.
  A. that      B. as        C. so       D. very
【答案】C.
【解析】:最佳答案  C使这本书难以理解的与其说是语言不如说是背景。
2. That trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn’t bothered by his loudness ___ by his lack of talent.
  A. so much as      B. rather than    C. as  D. than
【答案】A.
【解析】:最佳答案 A. so much as那个吹小号的人确实很大声。但我并不为他的吵闹而烦恼,而是为他缺乏才能而烦恼。
典型陷阱题分析
1. How beautifully she sings! I have never heard _____ voice.
A. a better        B. a best          C. the better      D. the best
【答案】A.
【解析】容易误选D,认为最高级前要用定冠词。其实此题最佳答案为A,该句可视为…I have never heard a better voice than her voice 之省略,全句句意为她唱得多好啊!我从未听过她这么好的声音。请再看以下类似的实例:
He is fine, never better. 他很好,比以往任何时候都好。
This bird is really lovely. I’ve never seen a finer one. 这只鸟真可爱,我从未见过这样好看的鸟。
less is more英文理解

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