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ConnieC

One view of the economy contends that a large drop in
oil prices should eventually lead to lowering interest
rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation, a rally
in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar.

(A) lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears
about inflation,

(B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about
inflation,

(C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears
about inflation,

(D) interest rates being lowered, along with fears
about inflation,

(E) interest rates and fears about inflation being
lowered, with

OA:B

对C,D中的along with 不解。

对C的解释是：Parallelism is maintained with a lowering, but the use of along with makes it unclear that fears is parallel to rates.
是不是along with 后面的 fears about infaltion 有两种并列情况，一种是fears bla bla……和 interest rates 并列，一种是和 a lowering of 并列？？

TicTacc

我觉得along with破坏了整句a lowing of..., a rally in..., and a weakening of...的完整平行结构。OG 的意思是along with rates会误把rates提升到了和这三个东西并列的级别，不仅改变句意而且还破坏了平行。