请教一下给位OG上的语法题28

astronautking

28. Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting other wild and domestic resources
(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting
(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood, and the exploitation of
(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the exploiting of
(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and seafood, and exploiting
(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and shellfish, and they exploited
答案是B
请教一下各位the harvesting 属于动名词吗，如果是的话那就是说平行结构中名词可以与动名平行？如果the harvesting 不属于动名词，那么The +V-ing就是属于名词？麻烦各位大虾帮帮忙，详解一下！

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RicardoTsui

The harvest就是动名词，和cultivation,exploitation，resources并列