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Despite recent increases in sales and cash flow that have propelled automobile companies' common stocks to new highs, several industry analysts expect automakers, in order to conserve cash, to set dividends more conservatively than they were
A. to set dividends more conservatively than they were
B. to set dividends more conservatively than they have been此项是否错在have been应用did？
C. to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends当时不选此项是觉得它把原句意思改变了
D. that they will be more conservative than they were in setting dividends
E. that they will be more conservative than they have been to set dividends
错选B 应为C对比选项之后首先可以排除DE选项，expect sb to do sth或者expect that是合理的用法，但是expect后面不跟双宾语，换句话说expect sb. that从句就不合理了，所以排除DE
ABC选项的差别主要在于比较结构的不同。
我们将题目中的可抛弃成分都抛弃了
那么和划线部分相关的句子的主干实际上是： Analysts expect automaker to set dividends more conservatively than they were. 这样一个结构，对于这种比较结构，主要判断两点：1比较结构的两者是不是有可比性；2比较结构中的比较从句的使用（省略）是不是能够正确地还原
A选项中，比较双方首先是不明确的，比较的结果是more conservatively，这是一个副词，说明比较的一方至少是set这个动词，但是比较的另一方they were这个省略是无法还原的，如果这里将they were更换为they did则更符合正确地英文表达
B选项的错误和A类似，这里不再赘述
C选项是正确的，比较双方有可比性，同时比较从句省略也可以正确还原
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