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Which of the following best completes the passage below?

Established companies concentrate on defending what they already have. Consequently, they tend not to be innovative themselves and tend to underestimate the effects of the innovations of others. The clearest example of this defensive strategy is the fact that______

(A) ballpoint pens and soft-tip markers have eliminated the traditional market for fountain pens, clearing the way for the marketing of fountain pens as luxury or prestige items

(B) a highly successful automobile was introduced by the same company that had earlier introduced a model that had been a dismal failure

(C) a once-successful manufacturer of slide rules reacted to the introduction of electronic calculators by trying to make better slide rules

(D) one of the first models of modern accounting machines, designed for use in the banking industry, was purchased by a public library as well as by banks

(E) the inventor of a commonly used anesthetic did not intend the product to be used by dentists, who currently account for almost the entire market for that drug

answer: C

文中说“they tend not to be innovative themselves ”，而C选项说他们trying to make better slide rules,这不是相反的意思么？为什么还要选C？

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C) a once-successful manufacturer of slide rules reacted to the introduction of electronic calculators by trying to make better slide rules

对于electronic calculators(计算器) 再好的slide rules(计算尺)也是落后的东西