23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
A. numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
B. numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
C. numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
D. number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
E. number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
1. 简洁:(一级排除 A,E)grew/raise 和 increase 重复
the phrase grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase is redundant and wordy,
was raised by ... increase is redundant.
2. 词法 :(二级排除 A,B,C )
表示统计数据用 单数 the number , the number of ……
1. 被动语态(二级排除 C,E )
被动语态要有合理的发起
because there is no identifiable agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed.用被动要有动作的逻辑发起
