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45.According to some analysts, the gains in the stock market reflect growing confidence that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and instead come in for a “soft landing,”followed by a gradual increase in business activity.

A. that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and instead come

B. in the economy to avoid the recession, what many feared earlier in the year, rather to come

C. in the economy’s ability to avoid the recession, something earlier in the year may had feared, and instead to come

D. in the economy to avoid the recession many were fearing earlier in the year, and rather to come

E. that the economy will avoid the recession that was feared earlier this year by many, with it instead coming

答案是A。
        但我不明白为什么A中是had feared earlier in the year而不是feared earlier in the year。

59.His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas.

A. in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas

B. in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas

C. when great ice sheets existed where there were areas now temperate

D. when great ice sheets had existed in current temperate areas

E. when great ice sheets existed in areas now that are temperate

答案是B。
        但不明白为什么用一般过去式而不是过去完成时，
        因为觉得AN AGE是在1837年前的。