McGraw-Hill's 500 Spanish Questions by Eric W. Vogt

Author:Eric W. Vogt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: Comparatives and Numbers

101. (D) This is the only choice that both deals with the comparison of inequality and does not embellish the English statement, as in choice (A). Choice (C) is a statement of equality, as is choice (B).

102. (B) While choice (C) expresses the same notion—that of wanting to buy an equal number of shoes—only choice (B) does so in the clear, formulaic way in which comparisons of equality are formed. Even choice (A) comes close, but only conceptually. Choice (D) expresses a wish to have the exact styles.

103. (B) Although choices (C) and (D) convey the same information and also in the proper form for the superlative, the English calls Fred “a person,” and thus they are not the best answers. Choice (A) uses the absolute superlative, and is therefore incorrect.

104. (B) Choice (A) tells the same information as choice (B), but without using the comparative structure as prompted by the English. When de is used with más instead of que, there could be fewer books, but no more than six. When que is used with más, it indicates that there are exactly six.

105. (B) The use of de in a positive assertion tells us that the speaker could have more than eight suits, but that eight is the minimum. Choice (A) indicates that he has as many as eight suits—in other words, that eight is the maximum number of suits he owns. Choice (C) tells us that he has exactly eight (compare with answer 104).

106. (B) The only other choice that might have been tempting should have been choice (C), but it is incorrect. While con prisa means in a hurry, it doesn’t tell how fast someone is going. Choice (A) is the absolute superlative and choice (D) is a comparison of equality.

107. (A) This is the only choice that gives a comparison of inequality. Choice (B) indicates that they both get bad grades, without any clear statement of whose grades are worse. Choice (C) says they both get the worst grades in the class, again without any clear idea of how they compare to each other. Choice (D) differs from (C) only in that it says their grades are bad, not that they are the worst.

108. (D) Choice (A) is tempting, but states only that Timothy is the most athletic student in his school, not that he is actually the best athlete, as in the most successful. Choice (B) just says he’s very athletic, while (C) says he stands out the most as an athlete—but for what?

109. (C) This choice indicates, as in the English, that ten is the minimum number of students possible in the class—there could be more. Choice (A) only says there are fewer than eleven, but that makes it possible for there to be any number up to ten students. Choice (B) says there are not more than ten, whereas choice (D) says there are fewer than ten—and this is not what the English sentence means.

110. (D) Although choice (B)

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