PREP08 180

eziogaming

Noting that the Federal Reserve had raised a key short-term interest rate again last month, analysts said that they expected orders for durable goods to decline soon because rising interest rates makes it more expensive to buy them on credit
A.    rising interest rates makes it more expensive to buy them on credit
B.    rising interest rates make buying on credit more expensive
C.    a rise in interest rates make it more expensive to buy on credit
D.    a rise in interest rates make buying on credit more expensive  
E.    a rise in interest rates makes it more expensive for them to be bought on credit

为什么选B? SUBJECT不应该是RISING或者A RISE么？那为什么答案说的MAKE不是MAKES啊？(答案貌似把rates看成SUBJECT?）

彩虹汤圆

stlibai 发表于 2012-9-10 19:07
( 上升的 )利率使按揭成本昂贵.主语是利率.

可是rising inerest rates也可以作为一个主语啊，。。。有谓语make....

qsqyqfmy

查词典了~rise确实可以作为及物动词~语法上应该没有问题吧（？）~我个人的理解是问题出在逻辑上~如果把interest rates作为主语确实比rising interest rates作为主语在逻辑上理解起来更通顺些~因为毕竟本质上是升高的利率造成了这个后果~而不是提高的这个行为~然后结合后面them指代的问题所以只能选B了~

小盘子嘟嘟

rise 是不及物动词，所以这里不可能表示动名词来做句子的主语，raise才是能直接加interest rates 的

sisichen666

1.从logic语义角度出发：rising interest rates与前面的again遥相呼应。因为有again的存在，说明不是一次利率上涨a rise in interest rates，因此可以排除C,D,E

2.rising interest rates，rising就是adj修饰成分，主语是interest rates复数，而a rise in interest rate主语是a rise单数；其实这么一交换也同是改变了原文的logic主语和句意

真的谁都不认识

对啊，我也觉得分词短语  RISING INTEREST RATES  才是主语。那就应该当做第三人称单数来用。 那个RISING 是现在分词还是形容词？

hz1101

确实纠结了很久啊~ 觉得（Raising interest rates）才做主语所以直接把A排除了啊。。求赐教！

DUKB24

ls......

哪个选项不是完整句子。。。求赐教

stlibai

because后面要接完整句子.

stlibai

( 上升的 )利率使按揭成本昂贵.
主语是利率.