单选题 ______a declining birth rate, there will be an over-supply of 35 000 primary school places by 2010, ______ leaving 35 schools idle.
A. Coupled with, equals to B. Coupling with, equivalent to
C. Coupled with, equivalent to D. Coupling with, equals to

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 句子大意为：伴随着出生率的下降，截止到2010年却会有35000个小学校址，其中35个相当于闲置。本题考查常用表达coupled with，该词组须用被动式，表示某种伴随状态。短语equivalent to表示“相等于”之义，由于第二个空格处空缺的不是谓语，故排除 equals to。所以，正确答案是C。