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阿萨德积极

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

正确答案是B，楼主选的是E
lz也知道现在完成时不是正确的，但是不能理解为什么选B
请麻烦仔细解答一下

wjtwenzi

首先楼主划线似乎就划错了了吧……正确的题目应该是：
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.

先看结构，
主语：TE's powerful style and his choices of subject（明显是复数，排除单数的选项，就只剩B和E了，E选项缺少be动词，比较结构不完整，也可以排除）

再看时态，
这里明显过去完成时不对，因为没有与之相应的过去时对应；
现在完成时其实也不对，因为这样比较结构就不平衡了，一边用完成时，一边用现在时

其实不考虑时态也能选对的，明显E后面少了they are

Indigolove

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

..........-...........-..........

This is a Hyphen structure, and we can simpliy cover this part and see the sentence more clearly.

We see "and" right? so A, C it out.
And we also see " ...........as.................as............. This is, of course, a parellel structure, so        ..........it is..........as disturbing.............as....it is.........or they are........as distrubing......as........they are, but here "it is" is wrong, so we elinimate E, D (had been........was.........wrong)

We are happy to go with B