[mm讨论]新prep2-172

这是个争议题，有的书上是A，有的书上是C。我觉的如果C错的话，就只能说明perdict后面不用虚拟语气（新东方选C，我还特地咨询过）。

C里面有一个硬伤.predict不可能发生在continue前面，不能用一般过去时.

A里面虽然because of the economy's continued strength不好但是至少没有致命错误，而且后面的时态很对。

for weeks 是很好的提示，have been predicting现在完成进行时能表示这种状态一直在持续。

C使用predicted过去式，没有线索，并且和前文不一致。

Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest rate target five times, and because of the economy's continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will be raised again in November.

做错了。思路是对的，但是看选项没有看清楚

A. because of the economy's continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will明确一点，have been predicting是正确的时态，一开头就有提示:since February.即:Since February, the Fed连续5次加息，那么在这持续加息的日子中分析家也就持续predicting for weeks怎样怎样

B. with the economy's strength continuing, analysts predicted for weeks that the target主要错在predicted上
        改变了时态 with抹杀了原题有的因果关系

C. because the economy continues strong, analysts predicted for weeks that the target would主要错在predicted上
        改变了时态
            

D. due to the economy's continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target这里要看清楚少了will

E. due to the fact of the economy's continued strength, analysts predicted for weeks that the target will这里due to the fact of典型错误 wordy； predicted也是错误

总结:忠实原句时态 没有明确时态标志最好不要改时态 况且此题中已经有了since February

     其次体会原句意义 从2月以来Fed就在持续加息 and 因为XX 分析家也是for weeks持续预见the target will be raised again in November

同意LS的观点。这个题目乍看C的确漂亮A的确不像对的。但是忠于逻辑没有问题的原文真的很重要！

predict的时态是强加上去的。是C的致命错误

严重同意，原来也一直有个潜在的想法，觉得一个句子里面不可能两个分句同时用完成时态。现在已经看过两道题，给自己提醒这是个错误的自以为是。。

due to有没有错误？

我觉得due to也有错误，看过NN的讨论说due to做表语，it is due to才对，这里due to算错么