552.        Once the economic and social usefulness of the motor car was demonstrated and with its superiority to the horse being proved, much of the early hostility to it in rural regions disappeared.

(A) and with its superiority to the horse being

(B) and its superiority over the horse had been

(C) and its superiority to the horse

(D) its superiority over the horse

(E) with its superiority to the horse having been

答案是C ， 但是longman上关于superiority & superior 的固定搭配是: superiority over & superior to

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