It has been estimated that almost sixty percents of the land at the Badlands National Monument is devoid of vegetation. (TOEFL)
我看不出这个句子有什么错误。
应注意 per cent(或写作 percent) 用作名词时,无复数形式:
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45 per cent of Americans were against it. (EED) 百分之四十五的美国人反对它。
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Ten per cent of the pupils are absent today. (JED) 今天有百分之十的学生缺席。
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Prices have risen 6 percent in the past year. (MED) 这一年来价格上涨了百分之六。per cent/percent/percentage
A. I am 100 percent in agreement with you. 我百分之百同意你。
B. Michigan provided 75 per cent of the annual output of motor vehicles in the U.S.A. 密执安州生产的汽车占美国汽车年产量的 。
C. The liquor contains a small percentage of alcohol. 这种酒含酒精的百分比很小。
请问 per cent, percent 与 percentage 这三个词有什么区别?
per cent 与 percent 的用法完全相同,都可用作名词或副词。美国英语喜欢写成一个词 percent。percentage 只能用作名词,前面一般不加具体的数目字,而只加表示定性的词语,如 low, small, high, large, good, great 等:
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A good percentage of our pilots retire early. 我们很大一部分飞行员退休都很早。
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He has succeeded in achieving a high percentage of cures. 他成功地获得了很高的治愈率。
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A large percentage of the people came. 大部分人都来了。
现在我们能够很容易地判定下面句子里的毛病：
A large per cent of the population was against nuclear weapons. (应将 per cent 改为: percentage) 反对核武器的人占人口很大百分比。
请做下面的英语试题：
About ninety-five percentage of the money earned by railroads in the United States comes from A B C D
hauling freight. (TOEFL)