... never were sold AND ... has ever been...

Snazzy

263.    During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.
(A) funding for instructional material, never were
(B) funding for instructional material, never was
(C) funding, the instructional material, was never
(D) funding for instructional material, the products were never
(E) funding, they were never


how about 'were never'?

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

what the hell

Snazzy

NOBODY?

dansy

第一题答案A， 对否？ 我觉得'were never' 也可以。
第二题答案B？

Snazzy

both are As. just can't understand why 'never were' is right? btw, that cat is very funny.

Snazzy

looking for answers

turtlechen

I think
products were never sold.  is normal.
products never were sold.  is emphasizing.

How do you think?