Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need tosave money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gasand electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities inquestion with states opening their utility markets to competition.
A. and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening
B. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open
C. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening
D. company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening
E. company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open
ans:E
也搜到了这道题，但是大家大都是针对 the mergert 的讨论。 对于出现在CD选项中，为什么with states opening不对，大家也没有讨论出结果. 我看了prep08的解释“with states opening伴随修饰be marketing错误”。很困惑。我总是觉得这个with的独立主格结构就是伴随，修饰正句话的.