【问】 我同意您在any men/any other men条中所作的分析。但是我在New Concept English中却读到过这样两个句子：

1. He has been able to tell us more about active volcanoes than any man alive.(Book 2，P.163)

2. For this reason，intelligent creatures in any part of the universe would be able to un-derstand a simple arithmetical sequence. (Book 3，P. 134)

【答】 从逻辑的严密性上来说，上面的句子是有毛病的，应分别改为any other man alive和any other part，因为从逻辑角度看any man alive也包括he(Haroun Tazieff)在内。因此，考生应该只承认符合逻辑的表达方法：than any other，in any other。

请做下面的英语试题：

General George Brown was older than his regiment， but he was