8. Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance. (A) would gradually undermine it (B) to be a gradual undermining of it (C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity (D) to gradually undermine ethnicity (E) gradually undermining it
答案:A,我选了D,
9. In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company’s earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions. (A) by using the company’s earnings and to profit (B) by using the companies’ earnings and by profiting (C) using the companies’ earnings and profiting (D) with the company’s earnings, profiting (E) with the companies’ earnings and to profit 答案:E,我选了A,A不是更平行吗?
8题predicted后面漏了that,sb predicts sth to do,here do's subject is not sth but sb,while here,it is the processes that will eliminate the ethinity. 9 not comany but companies.关于investor能不能using,我始终保留,with和using在这里应该是一个意思。