单选题 People prefer paying large sums of money ______ their lifework destroyed by gangsters.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试prefer这个单词的用法。该单词用法有三种:prefer sth. to sth. ;prefer doing sth. to doing sth. ;prefer to do sth. rather than (to) do sth. 。都表示“相比后者,更喜欢前者”。题目中的用法符合我们这里提到的第二种结构。所以C选项是正确答案。