求助 PREP1 22

mia113

22. (25727-!-item-!-188;#058&002127)

The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts

had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.

(A) had expected it to and its business will improve

(B) had expected and that its business would improve

(C) expected it would and that it will improve its business

(D) expected them to and its business would improve

(E) expected and that it will have improved its business

答案是B 可以通过时态和平行直接就排除得到
仔细看PREP的解释后，解释上说A是因为it to只是多余， 我认为：A中It应该是带profits 因为比较成分应是：
its profits declined less than (the profits that)ananlysts had expected
应该是profits的比较，从less可以看出profit 是个不可数名词 (但是又加了s)， 此时若想指代一个不可数名词 但又是复数的形式 请问代指应该用it还是them?
求指教··谢谢了···

mia113

睡了一觉·起来发现自己好像有点傻吖··
less在这是做副词 修饰的decline而非Profit 跟那个 costs rose 2.8% less than they did一样吖···
那prep解释说D项  them没有指代对象且多与·我觉得them还是有指代对象 就是profits
反观A it才是多与又没有指代对象吧··？

想请问下
一个句子里面可以出现 it them 两个性数不一样的指代吖？（分别指不多的东西？）