Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete.

Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete.

A.    the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete

B.    Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, was protected in his afterlife by an army of terra-cotta warriors that was created more than 2,000 years ago by 700,000 artisans who took more than 36 years to complete it

C.    it took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to create an army of terra-cotta warriors more than 2,000 years ago that would protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife

D.    more than 2,000 years ago, 700,000 artisans worked more than 36 years to create an army of terra-cotta warriors to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife

E.    more than 36 years were needed to complete the army of terra-cotta warriors that 700,000 artisans created 2,000 years ago to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife

主语army，前有rivaling。。状语。，谓语is。。and took。。，句子前是doing或ed。。的状语，上课着重讲了这个句型。Rivaling应该和句子主语有逻辑关系，是主语主动发出的动作。能和pyramid有逻辑关系的只能是兵马俑。所以其他选项按照这个结构上的错误直接可以排除掉。

首先这道题根据逻辑主语排除BDE，然后明显A是优于C的，但是答案却是C，我看了很久，莫非是and took那里出了问题？是is和took时态上不平行呢?还是兵马俑不能发出took这个动作？明显这个地方写成it took ...to complete兵马俑比较靠谱一些。其他A的问题我就没发现了，如果我提的关于A的两个问题是正确的话，那么此题应该退而求其次选C。