大全 726 答案有问题吗?请教

726.   The delinquency rates on mortgages for office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, and other commercial properties held by the nation’s insurance companies in recent months have increased sharply, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loan could double over the next three years.

(A) in recent months have increased sharply, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loan could double over the next three years

(B) have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years

(C) have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that doubling of foreclosures on these types of loans could occur over the next three years

(D) has increased sharply in recent months, and lead to predictions that over the next three years doubling of foreclosures on this type of loan could occur（B）

(E) in recent months has increased sharply, and this leads to predictions that foreclosures on that type of loan in the next three years could double

当时做题的时候卡在B和C 之间很久,后来觉得B里面的主语是foreclosures 这个不能自己double自己,一般都说sth be boubled,这里是逻辑问题,

C里面虽然doubling of foreclosures could occur虽然读着拗口,但是没有逻辑错误啊;

请教一下是不是我理解有问题啊????

Choice B is more concise and clear than Choice C.

I think foreclosures could double is idiomatic. Could you remember there is a similar question in OG? The correct answer seems to be " double the figure in ...". I think the principle is the same.

找到了,是OG4

A survey by the National Council of Churches showed that in 1986 there were 20,736 female ministers, almost 9 percent of the nation’s clergy, twice as much as 1977.

(A) twice as much as 1977

(B) twice as many as 1977

(C) double what it was in 1977

(D) double the figure for 1977

(E) a number double that of 1977’s