[求助]旧prep的一道题，讲解没讲清楚。。。

china101

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In hoping to restrain economic growth, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, making it more expensive to borrow for businesses and consumers.

 

(A) In hoping to restrain economic growth, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, making it more expensive to borrow for businesses and consumers.

(B) Making it more expensive for businesses and consumers to borrow, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, in hopes of their restraining economic growth.

(C) In making borrowing for businesses and consumers more expensive, British policymakers, in hopes they will restrain economic growth, had raised interest rates.

(D) Hopefully restraining economic growth, British policymakers raised interest rates, making more expensive borrowing by businesses and consumers.

(E) Hoping to restrain economic growth, British policymakers raised interest rates, making it more expensive for businesses and consumers to borrow.

making it....这里it指代什么？我觉得指代不明。。。

uustar

e中it 是形式代词，指代to borrow。

d中hopefully意思是充满希望地，用在这里不合理，后面介词by应该是for，并且整个句子awkward。 

open to discuss

china101

d的问题我其实看出来了，就是觉得it没指代才勉强选的。。。

代词还可以指代短语，第一次听说。。。谢啦~

我记得prep讲解中说it做形式主语不可以指代介宾短语，这里叫形式代词。。。