Business, however, was not 27 he had expected. 28 , as he sat in a cafe in a small town, he had an idea.
答案：(B) as good as
【句型】not as good as 是比較句型，表示「不如他預期的那麼好」；as far as（就……而言）、單獨的 as（不構成完整比較句）、as well as（不僅……也……）都不符合這個否定比較句型。
本題大考中心未公布逐題答對率，以下不談數據，只談觀念。
四個選項都以 as 開頭，長得很像，而 as well as 與 as far as 都是熟面孔，很容易先挑它們。這一格要先看句子的形狀——句尾那個結構會告訴你這是一個比較句。
先把整句讀出來：Business, however, was not ___ he had expected.（然而生意並不……他所預期的。）空格前面是 was not、後面是一個子句 he had expected，中間要填的是連接這兩邊的比較結構。not as ... as 是「不如……那麼……」的固定說法，而形容生意好壞用 good，所以填 as good as：Business was not as good as he had expected.（生意不如他預期的好。）這一格與 87 年第 37 題是同一個結構的兩種考法：那一題考的是 as many 與 as much 的可數不可數，本題考的是中間該放哪個形容詞。共同的第一步都是——先看句子裡有沒有第二個 as，有就往 as ... as 去想。
as far as（就……而言、遠至）：用在 as far as I know（就我所知）這類說法上，不能拿來比較生意的好壞。as well as（以及、不僅……還有）：是把兩樣東西並列，不是比較高下。as：單獨一個 as 接子句是「當……時」或「因為」，構不成 not ... as ... 的比較。
not as good as（不如……好）、as ... as（和……一樣……）、as far as I know（就我所知）、as well as（以及）、expect sth（預期）、live up to one’s expectations（達到某人的期望）。
When Levi Strauss arrived in the United States from Bavaria, he was only seventeen, poor, and knew very 21 English. Like most immigrants, he was 22 a better life. So, when gold was discovered in the West in 1849, he 23 thousands of others and rushed to California.
24 he planned to open a shop in San Francisco, he took many goods with him, 25 a large quantity of canvas. He hoped to sell 26 as material for tents or wagon covers. Business, however, was not 27 he had expected.
28 , as he sat in a cafe in a small town, he had an idea. He saw a man with a hole in the leg of his trousers and 29 realized what Californians 30 for the rough work they were doing—good, strong trousers!