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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

OMA：E

这道题也是选择没问题。但是我不大理解选项的意思。那个create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open their markets to competition是什么意思呢？那个for又是怎么回事呢？请高人指点！万分感谢！！！

我试着翻译一下，大家拍砖
E选项翻译：国内领先的gas公司和electric公司的合并是为了建立一个庞大的服务网络，建立

这个网络的目的是应对正在讨论中的公共事业市场化