10. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago. (A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago (B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago (C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago (D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago (E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
以下是引用bigcamel在2003-12-8 22:18:00的发言: 我的看法是:因为then之前making……省略了in the coming year, 所以这里若不补出it was仍会造成歧义,至少是造成比较对象不清晰。所以补出it was比较好
可是我感觉即使不补出,也不会把health和five years ago比吧。一个名词结构,一个副词短语。如果把five years ago改成ever before呢? making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than ever before.