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问？？？166 The prime lending rate is a key rate in the economy: not only are the interest rates on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses tied to the prime, but also on a growing number of consumer loans, including home equity loans.

(A) not only are the interest rates on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses tied to the prime, but also on

(B) tied to the prime are the interest rates ？？？not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses, but also on

(C) the interest rates not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses are tied to the prime, but also

(D) not only the interest rates on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses are tied to the prime, but also on

(E) the interest rates are tied to the prime, not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses, but also

This sentence uses idiomatic paired coordinators, not only..., but also.., to relate two basic kinds of loans to the prime lending rate: (1) loans to small and medium-sized businesses and (2) consumer loans. B, the best choice, is the only one that maintains the necessary parallelism in the phrases following the paired coordinates: not only on..., but also on.... Choices C

以下是引用cissie0128在2006-3-2 10:52:00的发言：

B中红色字体没有主语阿

不好意思，没划上。这个答案是b,我是问b中前面那半句tied to the prime are the interest rates 主语就是tied to...么？

以下是引用cissie0128在2006-3-3 20:51:00的发言：

不好意思，没划上。这个答案是b,我是问b中前面那半句tied to the prime are the interest rates 主语就是tied to...么？

呵呵。。。这句话是个倒装句，正常语序应该是这样：the interest rates not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses, but also on a growing number of consumer loans, including home equity loans, are tied to the prime (lending rate).
可见，主语超级长。所以为了避免“头重脚轻”，就把主语全部扔到后面去了。
注意，这里的宾语还运用了省略。否则，直译的话会让人“丈二和尚－－摸不着头脑”的。