请教prep破解里面的一题，没整明白

deifica

36.(26371-!-item-!-188;#058&002614)

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

答案选D，为什么不能选B..谓语单数我也没折腾明白...

1jduanmu

答案是b啊

deifica

答案是b啊

-- by 会员 1jduanmu (2010/10/6 12:24:37)

晕，谢谢仁兄了，把abcd写在一坨里面了，没看清...