RSP 65

RSP 65

Multiple Choice

1. Traveling in the UK is not cheap. Fish and chips, a typical British dish, are almost ______ as valuable as a Big Mac sold in Taiwan.

• (A) two

• (B) second

• (C) double

• (D) twice

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2. I was surprised to find that the tablet computer cost ______ the smartphone.

• (A) half as many as

• (B) more than half

• (C) half more than

• (D) half as much as

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3. If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times ______ now.

• (A) larger than it is

• (B) the size of them

• (C) so large as it does

• (D) the largest of the three

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4. In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have armed ______ the global average.

• (A) three times as slow as

• (B) twice faster than

• (C) double the speed of

• (D) three times faster than

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5. In an article about Ontario’s proposed green economy, Levant said that McGuinty intends to build massive three-armed crucifixes^{耶穌受難像}across rural Ontario. The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty’s eco-idols will be three times ______, but will serve the same imposing purpose…. And, like the massive cathedrals of medieval times, McGuinty’s three-armed crosses are to be paid for with tithes^什一奉獻, from the little people.

• (A) its speed

• (B) taller than

• (C) that height

• (D) the amount

One day, while Mia and her sister Emily were walking down the street, they found a magic lamp. Complete the following passage by using the given words and the patterns discussed in this unit. The first one has been done for you.

Feeling excited to find the magic lamp, Mia and Emily rubbed it, and then a genie suddenly appeared. The genie gave each of them three wishes. After Emily secretly made her three wishes, it was Mia’s turn. Mia first told the genie that she wanted to have ^1. a million times as much money as  (a million times/much/money) she had at that time.

She thought if she had that much money, she could buy almost everything she desired. Next, she wanted a bedroom that was ^2._____________________ (three times/large) Emily’s bedroom.

• three times the size of

• three times as large as

• three times larger than

She needed a bigger bedroom because she had ^3._____________________ (ten times/many/novel) Emily had. As for the last wish, she couldn’t make up her mind because she wanted so many things.

• ten times as many novels as

Therefore, she came up with a good idea: She wanted to have ^4._____________ (five times/much) what Emily had asked for.

• five times the amount of

• five times as much as

• five times more than

Suddenly, Mia became ^5.___________ (five times/heavy) her sister because one of Emily’s wishes was to stay 45 kilograms forever!

• five times heavier than

• five times as heavy as

• five times the weight of