885-6-23. Constance Horner, chief of the LACE w:st="on">United StatesLACE> government’s personnel agency, has recommended that the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant.

(A) the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant

(B) any dangerous or illegal drug, if used in the five years prior to applying for a job, should be grounds not to hire the applicant

(C) an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds not to hire them

(D) an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to applying for a job are grounds that they not be hired（A）

(E) for five years prior to applying for a job, an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug be grounds for not hiring them

困惑：“grounds for not hiring an applicant”中hiring的逻辑主语应该是company之类，和that从句的主语不一致，不需要不出来么？

楼上说得有问题。

这句话的意思是

某权威认为申请人五年内吃了乱七八糟的药是不雇佣申请人的理由。

这里hiring是动名词，不是分词，所以不必去找逻辑上的主语

如果确实需要找一个，在没有上下文的情况下，我觉得就是United States government