OG13 Bengal-born writer, philosopher, and educator Rabindranath Tagore

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Bengal-bornwriter, philosopher, and educator Rabindranath Tagore had the greatestadmiration forMohandas K. Gandhi the person and also as a politician, but Tagore had been skeptical of Gandhi’s form ofnationalism and his conservative opinions about India’s cultural traditions.

(A) for Mohandas K. Gandhi the person and also as apolitician, but Tagore had been

(B) for Mohandas K. Gandhi as a person and as apolitician, but Tagore was also

(C) for Mohandas K. Gandhi not only as a person and as apolitician, but Tagore was also

(D) of Mohandas K. Gandhi as a person and as also apolitician, but Tagore was

(E) of Mohandas K. Gandhi not only as a person and as apolitician, but Tagore had also been

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周老师解释：

Rhetorical construction; Parallelism
This sentence describes the writer and philosopher Tagore's two types of feelings for Gandhi. The underlined part of the sentence has to express correctly the time line of these two feelings (they happened simultaneously). The underlined part also has to express the correct relationship between the complements of admiration and skepticism.
A.不平行；had been 时态错误
B.correct
C.the phrase not only X but also Y matches the meaning of this sentence: Tagore had not only admiration but also skepticism. However not only has to precede admiration for this rhetorical construction to be parallel.
D.The noun admiration as it is positioned in this sentence should take the preposition for, not of, since it refers to a person. The adverb also is redundant because it expresses the same meaning as the conjunction and.
E.As in (D), the noun admiration should take the preposition for. As in (C), the rhetorical structure of not only X but also Y is violated. Finally, the use of the past perfect tense had been is misleading with respect to the time line.