一道PREP题求助

MarksJingXu · 发表于 2017-3-31 17:55:33

In hoping to restrain economic growth, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, making it more expensive to borrow for businesses and consumers.
A In hoping to restrain economic growth, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, making it more expensive to borrow for businesses and consumers.
B Making it more expensive for businesses and consumers to borrow, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, in hopes of their restraining economic growth.
C In making borrowing for businesses and consumers more expensive, British policymakers, in hopes they will restrain economic growth, had raised interest rates.
D Hopefully restraining economic growth, British policymakers raised interest rates, making more expensive borrowing by businesses and consumers.
E Hoping to restrain economic growth, British policymakers raised interest rates, making it more expensive for businesses and consumers to borrow.

请问各位NN，正确选项是E，但是句中的it指代什么呀？一直没找到。。

emmahiggins09 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:23:08

make it + adj 中 it 都是placeholder 不实际指代前面提到的东西

Fiona09 · 发表于 2017-4-1 10:47:43

同意楼上，这里的it是形式宾语。这时，it只起先行引导作用，并无词义，或是指代。

除了make之外，还有think, find, consider, feel, suppose等词，举个栗子：

I find it pleasant to work with you.

MarksJingXu · 发表于 2017-4-1 12:03:22

感谢！

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