单选题 The people around him kept saying ______ the drowned man but he went on doing artificial respiration.
A. it was useless reviving B. there was no use reviving
C. there was no use to try to revive D. it was no use trying to revive

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 动名词用法和语义完整
句型it is no use doing sth. 意为“做某事是没用的”，动名词结构为真正的主语。此外，要注意，完整的语义是“救活那个人的努力是没用的”，而不是“救活那个人是没用的”。