问b?翻译以下，另外noted前面不加be么

258. The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for LACE w:st="on">LondonLACE>.

(A) that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning

(B) that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning

(C) that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned

(D) the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning

(E) the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned

the answer is A

ding !!!!

xxx提到了大量的关于收入不均的例子，比如x动物园里给小孩骑的大象一年的收入相当

于伦敦成人教育主管的收入。

note是动词，指提到，提出，不用加be

was earning表示过去的一种连续进行的状态。

had been earning表示发生在note之前，实际上并不是这样。

另外 og解释：

In B, the structure of noted... that the elephant, giving rides ..., had

been earning falsely implies that the reader already knows about the

elephant--that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new

information.

多谢拉，不过还有一个小tricky问题

那个note 后面那个as是干吗的阿，他一加as,我就觉得应当用be noted as了