gwd7-40关于时态

equilibrium

Q40:

Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest rate target five times, and because of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will be raised again in November.

1. because of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will
2. with the economy’s strength continuing, analysts predicted for weeks that the target
3. because the economy continues strong, analysts predicted for weeks that the target would
4. due to the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target
5. due to the fact of the economy’s continued strength, analysts predicted for weeks that the target will

记得听语法老师讲过完成进行时在gmat中很少是正确的，因为它表达的意思很模糊，是完成了，还是没完成？当然我想只并不能作为排除a的理由，但我想a中的continued strength是不是不好，continue 是表一个持续的动作，根据原文逻辑，显然现在还在增长，是不是用continuing 好一点？

我原来也选c, 但没注意到because 条件句中用的是continues. 条件从句用一般现在时，主句用过去时，这好像是gmat中的大忌呀。

另外这一句话居然出现了三种时态？太狠了吧？

所以关于时态的问题还请nn们多指教。

equilibrium

sorry,thanks !!

sammen

这个题目好像是有争议的一道GWD的语法题目，我认为是A，因为前面的那个since February看它的位置是修饰全句的。了；另外这里的continued不是分词形式而是形容词，楼主可以查字典看看，有这个用法的。anyway,这里是数学区，楼主帖子下次记得贴对地方哦。