OG10语法268题及GWD22语法总结二十四

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 redun dant.  

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