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请教另一题：

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

为何是A不是C？相象是不受时间影响的客观存在，但在。。。之前是过去发生的事实，请高人指点。

C. is wrong.  predated 过去时， resembles 现在时

     不能被 and 连接