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Q17:

Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question 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

the answer is e

不过看不懂这个选项的成分：company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

marketing 这里是名词还是分词？ 是名词的话，the utilities in question .....充当什么成分？

是分词的话，creat a huge network for doing?? 只是典型错误啊。

pls help me out, 3x

marketing 是动名词，the utilities in question 是marketing 的宾语。

for doing不是典型的错误，可以认为是典型的非优选标志，但不代表错误。

也就是说creat for doing sth 是可以的？这里的as 是当“当。。时”讲吗？

如果是，可以替换成when 吗

as, when我老是搞不清，能帮我讲讲吗，谢谢

as比when更强调一段时间

Listed below is the explanation from longman dictionary:

in question

if something is in question, there is doubt about it
example: I'm afraid his honesty is now in question.

請教... 我還是看不太懂這句話的意思, 兩家公司merge的目的是create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open their utility markets to competition.

什麼意思啊? 急, 請幫忙, 後天就上戰場了... 到現在還有一堆糊塗帳...

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也看不懂这句话的意思．．．有ＮＮ来翻译一下吗？