急问大全552，求助

552.        Once the economic and social usefulness of the motor car was demonstrated and with its superiority to the horse being proved, much of the early hostility to it in rural regions disappeared.     

               (A) and with its superiority to the horse being

(B) and its superiority over the horse had been

(C) and its superiority to the horse

(D) its superiority over the horse

(E) with its superiority to the horse having been

答案是C ， 但是longman上关于superiority & superior 的固定搭配是: superiority over & superior to

疑惑啊疑惑

这题是选B

用时态无法排除

两个都可以

只有用固定用法来排除