4)下列词和短语不用比较级形式却表示比较概念：

　　inferior, minor, senior, prior, prefer to, superior, major, junior, preferable, differ from, compared with, in comparison with, different from, rather than. 如：

　　Their watch is to all the other watches on the market.

　　[A] superior [B] advantageous [C] super [D] beneficial

　　(答案为A)

　　Prior to his departure, he addressed a letter to his daughter.

　　5)“比较级+and +比较级”或“more and more/less and less +原级”以及“ever, steadily, daily等副词+比较级”结构表示“越来越……”的意思，与这类结构搭配的常用动词有grow, get ,become等。前面两种情况更多地出现在进行时态中，注意的是这三种情况引导的比较级后面都不需要用than.如：

　　Things are getting worse and worse.

　　As I spoke to him he became less and less angry.

　　Her health was becoming daily worse

　　The road got ever worse until there was no road at all = the road got worse and worse.

　　6)比较级前面可以用even, still, yet ,all the (more)等修饰语用以加强语气，表示“更加”的意思。如

　　Today it is even colder than yesterday

　　I have yet more exciting news for you

　　7) 有关比较级的特殊句型：

　　A): not so much…as…与其说……不如说……

　　The chief reason for the population growth isn’t so much a rise in birth rates a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.

　　[A] and [B] as [C]but [D] or

　　人口增长的主要原因与其说是因为出生率的提高，还不如说是因为医疗的进步带来的死亡率下降的结果。答案为B

　　B) no/not any more…than…两者一样都不……

　　The heart is intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain.

　　[A] not so [B]not much [C]much more [D] no more

　　(心脏和胃两者都不具有智力，他们都受大脑控制。答案为D)

　　There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take, they can limit how much water you drink.

　　[A] much more than [B] no more than

　　[C] no less than [D] any more than

　　(答案为D)

　　C)no/not any less…than…两者一样,都……注意基本上与no/not any more…than意思相反

　　She is no less beautiful than her sister.她和她姐姐一样漂亮

　　D)just as… so… 正如……， ……也……(用倒装结构)

　　Just as the soil is a part of the earth, the atmosphere.

　　[A] as it is [B] the same is [C] so is [D] and so is

　　(答案为C)

　　2.最高级形式应注意的问题：

　　1)最高级比较范围用介词in, over, of, among。

　　in, (all) over用于在某一范围内的比较，如：in China, all over the world.

　　of, among用于在同一群体内同类事物的比较，如：among the teachers, of the four dresses.

　　注意：among…相当于one of …,不说among all…。这一点考生应与汉语表达区别开来

　　如：

　　all visible lights, red light has the longest and violet the shortest wavelength.

　　[A] Among [B] Of [C]For [D]To 答案为[B]