7. Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.
(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure
(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure
(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it
(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria(B)
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it
请问:B对而E错,是不是因为E的never提到句首有强调的作用,因而改变了原句意思;且if从句不如without短语简洁? |