As its sales of computer products have surpassed those of measuring instruments, the company has become increasingly willing to compete for the mass market sales they would in the past have conceded to rivals.
they would in the past have conceded to rivals
they would have conceded previously to their rivals
that in the past would have been conceded previously to rivals
it previously would have conceded to rivals in the past
it would in the past have conceded to rivals
previously in the past 排除CD
company 用it 排除AB 所以选E
D Th e placement of in the past makes it unclear
whether it is supposed to modify rivals or
would have conceded; if the latter, then it is
redundant.
the company用it指代,排除A, B。
previously和in the past语意重复了,都是修饰concede这个动词,排除C, D。