15. I hope to do as ______ swimming this summer as I did last year.
A. a lot
B. possible
C. much
D. many times
这是gept中高级预试阅读考题 第15题
https://www.gept.org.tw/download/pretest/doc/hl6.zip
解答给C
想问一下 为何D不能选呢
然后想问一下 一般会像这句这样写吗
我以为会直接写I hope to swim...

QQ没人回答我

选D，可能会改写成I hope to swim as many times thissummer as I did last year

do 需要受词 -> do swimming(名词)(*1)。C. much 是用形容词修饰 swimming(名词)的as ... as 用法。D 的话times本身是名词，所以不能直接接swimming。把swimming移到 as...as之前也许可以:I hope to do swimming as many times this summer as I.... (干脆改成 I hope to swim as ....)这时候的 many times 带有副词功能(字面是名词词组: 形容词+名词)，修饰的是前头的 do。这情况和 C 的整句不同(*1) 可能是沿用 do exercise 的语法。Google Books上可以找到很多 do swimming 的例子