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