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175. Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices of subject—the advances in modern surgery, the discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves—was as disturbing to his own time as it is compelling for ours.

A. was as disturbing to his own time as it is

B. were as disturbing to his own time as they are

C. has been as disturbing in his own time as they are

D. had been as disturbing in his own time as it was

E. have been as disturbing in his own time as

A: 谓语要用复数, it要用they are

B: correct

C: 谓语要用复数

D: it is要用they are

E: as后少比较对象

这道题为什么选B？ 总觉得应该是were as disturbing to his own time as they were

for ours = for our time. our time is present.

agree with jandjshi