[求助] 大全真題 8 and 15

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（A）

(E) gradually undermining it

请问这题为选a呢？ 这样不就有2个动词了吗？(predicted and would gradually undermine)

15.   Under the 1986 tax law, interest payments on a refinanced home loan are deductible only if the amount of the loan does not exceed the purchase price of the home, the cost of improvements, and any additional amount borrowed against the home to pay for medical or educational expenses.

(A) any additional amount borrowed against the home to pay for medical or educational expenses

(B) borrowing any additional amount against the home for payment of medical or educational expenses

(C) also borrowing any additional amount against the home to pay for medical or educational expenses

(D) any additional payment of medical or educational expenses that were borrowed against the home（A）

(E) any additional payment borrowed against the home for medical or educational expenses

只知道因为平衡的关系B and C 不行选，请问答案为何a，而e又为错呢？

8.我觉得如果答案为A的话，至少predicted后面应该跟that引导

宾语从句，而且A中的it也没有明确的指代对象，所以，我认为A

这个答案有待商榷。我倾向于选D，理由是1.用ethnicity代替it

，指代明确；2.predict A to do B的结构是有的。

15.比较A/E，发现borrowed的修饰对象发生变化。A-amount

borrowed against the home to pay指借钱，目的是pay；E-

payment borrowed against the home for指借payment,for

xx,且不论我们可以将for xx前的动词胡乱地假设为affect或

induce，‘借payment’本身就存在动词和名词的匹配问题。

一家之言，望指教。