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答案是B，我觉得C对，B岂不变成了"the army of terra-cotta warriors took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete it". it 多余啊。

complete [transitive]
1. to finish doing or making something, especially when it has taken a long time

The students have just completed their course.

这道题看了前面的讨论，就没有细想了，翻了字典。正确答案还真的应该是C。

通常会用it 来指代 to do sth, 所以我们经常看到的形式是: It takes sb. some time to do sth.

还有一种变化是, 将sth提作主语:sth takes sb. some time to do. 这时候, 就不能在 to do 后再加一个宾语了.

一定是一样的吗，一定都是要省it吗？总觉得加了sb以后省了it句子意思不完整。你说过it 指代to to sth，如果这句是(to complete the building) took workers two years我就觉得好。

the building took workers two years to complete。这里可以看作the building宾语前置。

it 指代 to do sth. 这里说的it不是通常说的中性的第三人称代词，而是引导词，本身没有实意，只起一种先行引导词的作用。一般做形式主语或形式宾语，主要起到平衡句子的作用，后置真正的主语或宾语。

以下是引用LES在2005-4-5 14:22:00的发言：

嗯，我觉得是这样的。

the building took workers two years to complete。这里可以看作the building宾语前置。

真正的主语或宾语的形式有两种：

1. to do sth. 即：不定式；

2. that从句

仔细研究一下下面这两个例句，这个问题就会迎刃而解了。（临考前一天悟出此道理

）

Mr. Zhang said his father, taking one-half year to complete, created the museum boat.

Another piece that his father created of cranes took two years to complete.

以下是引用hades在2005-4-5 13:49:00的发言：

今天突然有人问我这道题，我想请教一下LES，

the building took two years to complete 和

the building took workers two years to complete (it)

帮忙看看。谢谢！

183. Archaeologists in Ireland believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the eighth century, was probably buried to keep from being stolen by invaders.

2）要为artisans，invaders找个施动（complete,keep）的对象，或者给being stolen找个对象

Sth. takes sb. sometime to complete. （注意：有没有sb.完全两个意思）

关键看加it，错不错！如果语法上不错的话，加比不加好！因为动词的主语和宾语更清晰，否则倒底是sth. complete还是sb. complete呢？

大家都在寻找不加的证据，但加it也有实例啊！所以我略倾向于选B。

Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete

基本可以分为the army of terra-cotta warriors...【 is more than 2,000 years old】 and 【took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete
】

也就是再简化一下the army of terra-cotta warriors took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete

以下是引用aquaa在2006-5-20 5:07:00的发言：

183. Archaeologists in Ireland believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the eighth century, was probably buried to keep from being stolen by invaders.

(A) to keep from

(B) to keep it from

(C) to avoid

(D) in order that it would avoid

(E) in order to keep from

In choice A, the phrase/frow being stolen lacks the necessary noun or pronoun that specifies what it is that might be stolen. Choice B is best because it provides the pronoun it, which refers to chalice.
Like choice A, choices C and E lack the pronoun. D is wordy and awkward in its use of the passive voice. Moreover,
avoid is used imprecisely in C and D because it illogically suggests that the chalice is acting to prevent its own theft.

这题中的 it就不能省略。为什么呢？

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以下是引用aquaa在2006-5-20 5:07:00的发言：

183. Archaeologists in Ireland believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the eighth century, was probably buried to keep from being stolen by invaders.

(A) to keep from

(B) to keep it from

(C) to avoid

(D) in order that it would avoid

(E) in order to keep from

这题中的 it就不能省略。为什么呢？

因为chalice已经是bury的宾语，不能再做keep的宾语。