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fanshuhang001

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.
划线部分是对的，但是有一个疑问，这里为什么用had feared 而不用feared???
求解答~~~万分感谢

village203

note that the past perfect can be used, roughly speaking, in two different circumstances:

1) for past actions that were ongoing until, or relevant to, a later past action (this is what you're thinking about);
OR

2) for past actions that were ongoing until, or relevant to, a later past TIME MARKER.

for #2, the second time marker could be something explicitly mentioned in the sentence.

before the introduction of soft landing mats, high jumpers had been forced to use the western-roll style of jumping

--> note that there is no second verb, but "the introduction of soft landing mats" is a time marker.

however, if the context of the sentence clearly IMPLIES a second time marker, then that second time marker may not even have to be mentioned explicitly.
in this sentence, the second time marker is implied by the phrase "earlier in the year" -- i.e., these fears were ongoing until a certain point that is already in the past

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jili_111

楼上说的有道理，我也在曼哈顿看到过，不过by+时间，和earlier in the year毕竟还是有些区别的吧，没强调停止，所以我也不确定啊，不过我倒是觉得2楼说的虚拟语气挺有道理的。

小涵在追梦

在Manhattan SC 看到的
过去完成时不一定要加simple past才可以
YOU COULD USE A DATA OR ANOTHER TIME REFERNCE
By 1945, the united states had been at war for several years.
本题的time是earlier in the year,
不知道这种说法对不对 大家来确认下啊

FactOrFiction

看OG不就应该是让我们从GMAC的官方答案里面推出解题过程和思路吗? 否则OG有啥参考意义.

强娃娃

不同意5楼。。。觉得你这是根据答案推过程，按你这么 说，其他选项也都要用过去完成时

FactOrFiction

倾向于5楼意见, 过去完成时, 表示过去发生, 但是在过去已经完成. 很符合句子里面的描述, 当时害怕, 但现在已经不怕了.

2017

我的理解：stock market已经gain了，人们在gain之后有信心，gain之前fear，gain已经是过去时了，所以fear过去完成

summer3513

还有没有其他的解释，，，，顶顶顶！！！！！！！！！

小布头

同2楼