PREP2 112题 有一个小问题请教大家。

captain_mas

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.

答案选E  我当时就在想D 还是E呢  D的结构有点罗嗦 但是E里面有个IT  我标注成红色了
这里的it难道不是指代 interest rates吗？
有点不太明白为什么这里it是对的呢。希望大家跟我解答一下拉，是不是这里的it的作用另有所指?

xiaotangyu

Q:这里的it难道不是指代 interest rates吗？

此处的it不是代词，是 businesses and consumers to borrow的形式主语，可还原正常语序为：
making businesses and consumers to borrow more expensive.

此外，即使这里是普通代词，it也无法指代复数的rates，而应改用they. 代词指代单复必须一致

captain_mas

恩呢!谢谢啦。就是因为我以为是普通代词 所以才把E给排除了呢。

nieyuhang

不能用hopefully呢，太口语化了~~~

toneere

这里的考点是hopefully 和 hoping to,
另外，D里除了hopefully有问题之外，making more expensive borrowing by businesses and consumers缺少了形式主语，make什么东西more expensive?句子残缺。还有，borrow用被动比较好。

E里，it是形式主语，还原句子应该是：making businesses and consumers to borrow（interest rates） more expensive.

captain_mas

谢谢啦!那是不是如果句子成分残缺 然后有个it 那就是形式主语额 - - 我怕我以后形式主语跟代词分不清白了》。。

toneere

it depends on diverse sentense sturctures.
另外，代词是没有就近原则这么一说的。