The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.
had expected it to and its business will improve
had expected and that its business would improve
expected it would and that it will improve its business
expected them to and its business would improve
expected and that it will have improved its business
this situation -- a state that is ongoing only until another past event, and which is directly related to that past event -- is precisely the kind of situation that requires the past perfect tense, so the sentence should contain "had expected", as in the first two choices. 另外c里it指代错误= profits
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