Prep-T1-Q36

[jayla]

Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices of subject--the advances in mordern 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 times as they are
(D)had been as disturbing in his own times as it was
(E)have been as disturbing in his own time as

答案B
我選E

這題我看不出來時態是過去還是現在,所以先刪除AC,使用單數動詞
前面沒有過去式,D用過去完成,所以也刪除.
E選項,as後面應該是要接句子
但是B前面用were,後面用are,讓我很困惑,所以還是硬著頭皮選E了,
想說會不會是因為有重複的資訊刪除才變成這樣...
麻煩大大解惑了,感恩!!

[dibert8]

句子有主詞 (Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices) 和受詞 (來字介係詞片語, time) 與主詞比較時,助動詞不能省略.
(E) 比較對象不清 (Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices? time?)
(B) 與主詞比較,時態不同: Thomas Eakins's time 是古時候 (were), our time 是現在 (are)

[oneseven]

選項E
in his own time 表明應該用過去的某一個時態，因此have been 使用錯誤

這裡是句子跟句子的比較，as compelling for ours不是句子，因此比較的對象概念不對等