标题: 求助求助！---关于because of矛盾的解释！～～～～～高手请进！～～ [打印本页] 作者: fannybeibei 时间: 2010-2-4 20:54 标题: 求助求助！---关于because of矛盾的解释！～～～～～高手请进！～～ OG 11 120 It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year. (A) the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year (B) the annual cost of illiteracy to the United States is at least $20 billion a year because of lost industrial output and tax revenues (C) illiteracy costs the United States at least $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues (D) $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues is the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy (E) lost industrial output and tax revenues cost the United States at least $20 billion a year because of illiteracy
选C没有问题，关键在OG 对B 的解释上，说B Because of is the incorrect idiom and should be replaced by in; wordy and redundant
上网一查，发现还有题自己在用because of 的。
例如
大全311（because of的位置）
1. Foreign investors, because of their growing confidence in their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, have been led to move from passive involvement in commercial real estate partnerships to active development of their own increasingly ambitious projects.
