单选题 His extravagance reduced him ______ for his living.
A. to beg B. from begging
C. to begging D. into begging

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] reduce sb. to是固定搭配,其中to为介词,后跟动名词,意为“使某人陷入……困境”,例如:Misfortunes reduced the poor peasant to selling his daughter to the landlord. 接连不断的不幸迫使那个可怜的农民把女儿卖给地主。