求助：OG12 67题

ran2010zx

59.    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
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it

ran2010zx

加下划线的是assumed that 后面

ran2010zx

正确答案是B，但是那个it指的是什么啊？

ran2010zx

求助各路牛人。。。

ran2010zx

Sophin

指的就是Morocco（摩洛哥），此句话的翻译是：Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century （整个20世纪法国队对摩洛哥一直很有兴趣）because they （法国）assumed that  without it（摩洛哥） their grip on Algeria would never be secure
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