[求助]885-sectionA-17

17．17.       Erasmus Montanus, a seventeenth-century farce written by Ludwig Holberg, both predates and resembles Moliere’s Tartuffe and is therefore thought to be one of Moliere’s sources.

(A) both predates and resembles

(B) it both predates and resembles

(C) both predated and resembles

(D) has both predated and resembled（A）

(E) because it both predated and resembled

分析一下句子的结构，B里的it是多余部分！