问题补充:
More and more people will fall in panic, as the expert predicts, if not properly.
A. comforting
B. comfort
C. comforted
D. being comforted
答案:
A. comforting
B. comfort
(答案→)C. comforted
D. being comforted
解析:考查非谓语动词,句意:按照专家的预测越来越多的人会陷入恐慌,如果不被适当安慰的话。根据语境被安慰,应用过去分词,所以用comforted前省略了they are,故选C。