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190.By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.

(A) to be in sympathy with

(B) to sympathize with

(C) for sympathizing with

(D) that they should sympathize with（C）

(E) that they should have sympathy for

I can't find any mistake in (B). Is there any difference between "to" and "for" in this question? Sorry for my stupid question.

have grounds (usu. plural) for doing sth/ or noun

It's a phrase, just remember it

感謝你

mariezhu班班说的没错，hougang GG理解正确。

下面是LONGMAN的解释，偶怎么觉得应该选B啊？！请大家讨论。谢谢！

▶REASON◀
grounds[ plural]a good reason for doing, believing, or saying something

grounds for (doing) something
Mental cruelty can be grounds for divorce .
There are strong grounds for believing his statement.

have grounds to do something
Did the police have reasonable grounds to arrest him?

on moral/legal/medical etc grounds
The proposal was rejected on environmental grounds.

on (the) grounds of something
Flying was ruled out on grounds of cost.
'You're under arrest.' 'On what grounds?'

on the grounds that
We oppose the bill, on the grounds that it discriminates against women.

Les斑竹的解释真是太elaborate了, 太谢谢了

不过，看了LES MM的解释，好像B也是正确答案啊！！！

hougang，谢谢夸奖！：）

其实看了longman的解释，发现关于ground与本题相关的两个用法是：

1. be grounds for doing sth.

2. have grounds to do sth.

基于这个理由，我认为这题的答案应该是B，尽管大全给出的答案是C。

另外，翻了一下自己以前的笔记，发现原来这题我也是一直做错的，最后是记下来硬背下C中的固定用法。我很奇怪，为什么当时没有想到去查一下字典？！

所以，我觉得这题值得大家再讨论一下，并怀疑大全答案的正确性。

刚刚又翻了一遍老贴，有说Webster's只有grounds for 的用法，我现在没有这本字典，谁能帮忙把那本字典中的相关解释都贴上来？谢谢！

牛津第四版增补中这样写

ground~for sth/doing sth/to do sth　　　作为说、做或者相信某事的理由或原因