Help SC 大全 180 和 190

eshopaholic

190.       By showing that South Africadoes not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare statefor Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no validideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.
(A) to be insympathy with
(B) to sympathize with
(C) forsympathizing with
(D) that theyshould sympathize with（C）
(E) that theyshould have sympathy for
答案C。做得时候，在B与C徘徊，选了B。
查了字典，都有相似的例句。
请 达人 解释下。谢谢

cptgig

great explanation

chris7

grounds for something - the basis or cause for legal action such as a lawsuit. (*Typically: be ~ become ～.). Example -
1. Your negligence is grounds for a lawsuit.
2. Is infidelity grounds for divorce in this state?

ground to somebody/something - to fail to maintain a share of something compared to others; Opposite of: gain ground on somebody/something.
Example –
1. Good Mexican restaurants are losing ground to less expensive, more informal places that have opened all over the city.

eshopaholic

哪个高手，可以解释一下呀

eshopaholic

181.    Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came

这题求详细解释。谢