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snowwing3731

The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.

A.    that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but
B.    that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously with but also
C.    having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously but
D.    cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence of centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arising simultaneously but also
E.    cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but
在A选项里面，were cut 可以这样用吗？本来trench应该是被“cut”

anguslu24

我觉得AE的区别点至少有三个，这个cut的主被动其实没多大的差别的，我杀A选E因为后面evidence that 比evidence for 来的好（that后内容结构主谓宾都有），并且E在用that 时主句主谓宾也齐全；再者，arouse比were arising好，因为simultaneously不是可持续性时间段，过去进行时没有意义，因此我选E而不是A。