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The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multigovernment lenders to supply the funds. (A) increasing the pressure (B) the increasing pressure (C) increased pressure (D) the pressure increased（C） (E) the pressure increasing In choice B, the definite article the needlessly suggests that some previously mentioned type of pressure is being referred to 再来看另外一题 99. New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions. (A) splitting apart continents (B) the splitting apart of continents (C) split apart continents (D) continents split apart（B） (E) continents that were split apart The word splitting must function as a noun to parallel the other items in the noun series of which it is part: reversals, onset, and eruptions. In B, the best choice,the definite article the clearly signifies that splitting is to be taken as a noun. 为什么99题中用“the"加分词形式就可以，而且“great volcanic eruptions"也无“the", 不也结构平行吗？106中的b, the increasing pressure 不可以因为这个“the" 也表明它是个名词吗？我就是记得99 题的解释才选得b 大家帮忙看看，一天都在想这两道题了。。。 | 
