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sbbi

5.    The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have an economy free of inflation.
(A) be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have
(B) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(C) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility of having
(D) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(E) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility of having

Answer E.
I think it should be C. "impact" as a verb is parallel with "impede". So C is better than E.XDF的解释简直是胡勒,说IMPACT只能是名词.FAINT

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braveMBA

我觉得：
possibility 用 impede不太好，impede更多的是阻碍、阻挡的意思，可能性的减小用diminish要更好些。同时diminish 同 rise在意思上有对应的感觉，尽管词性不同. ...rise...diminish...

sbbi

that makes more sense then.

joice

E is right.
1.have an impact on--- is right.
2. how can you impede possibility?
3. seriously -- and seriously-- wordy

ethyl

joice:

原文不是两个seriously

后面一个用的是severely,呵呵

天使与海豚

那possibility后面的是应该和of搭配还是和of doing sth.搭配...还是两者都可,是否有优先级

1focus2pace

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lyle

啊呀，有缘再睹高手过招。一击致命，后仙隐而去。pfpf。

gonghao

顶了，也选了C

zimerman

我也选了C

还是不懂为什么选E