16. Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubled that of the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending for the previous quarter.
(A) that personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubled that of
(B) that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double
(C) of personal spending in the July-September quarter, that it more than doubled
(D) of personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubling that of
(E) of personal spending in the July-September quarter, that it would more than double that of
the correct answer is B.
选项C和E都使用了，that, og的解释并没有说这么用语法不对，请高人指点如何理解这种结构？
我的疑问是 如果intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter整个作文插入语去掉，原句就变成了 Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, (修饰语), that it more than doubled rate in spending for quarter.
但是怎么想这句话都不对阿，that和it指代的东西理不清楚
如果把intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter), that it more than doubled rate in spending for quarter.连起来看，首先：逗号+that可以不修饰主语，而修饰状语吗？其次如果that指代的是前面整个句话的话，that的谓语在哪呢？显然double是it的谓语阿。
按og的解释it指spending的话，那that修饰的肯定是intensifying..这个句子了，求高人解惑！！ 作者: lilingfeng 时间: 2010-7-2 21:11
C Th is construction is awkward, announcing the topic (personal spending) and then
elaborating in a relative clause that restates this topic as it.
E Like option C, this sentence is awkward and unnecessarily wordy, announcing the topic
and then using an additional clause to elaborate on it.
这是OG的解释，announcing the topic personal spending，表明that it more than**就是修饰前面的intensifying的吧？
现在再看这题，按OG的思路来不看前面的主语的话，C选项就变成了intensifying expectations of sth, that it doubled. 也许可以这样解释，本来应该是intensifying expectations of sth adj that doubled，因为这里的adj是in quarter，直接接that有歧义，所以就用逗号隔开，that单独引导一个句子继续修饰sth
