1000 SC Question #181

[gmatgmat]

Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came

i chose C. because the sentence is in past tense, and no one did what Bob did before. so i use HAD DONE . could someone help explaining why it's A?


Thanks.

[microke]

What is the OA explanation? Can you tell us the source? Also it seems that the action of coming close to....something is only compared in A. I think that the question is expecting that only..

Answer choice C is in past perfect tense,which will not suit for this question.

[gmatgmat]

there's no explanation for the answer. It's the 1000 SC Questions in this forum.

Can instructors kindly help?

Thanks.

[ddm]

can someone please help here....

[iwill]

IMO .A

came as close to being a carbon cop ... as ..is the correct idiom.
hence eliminate D, E.
First part is in Simple Past . Second part - as anyone has ever come-
is a statement , which doesnt took place before the first part. Hence usage of Past Perfect is not needed.

Hence Answer is A.

[logitech]

i chose C. because the sentence is in past tense, and no one did what Bob did before. so i use HAD DONE . could someone help explaining why it's A?

Any better explanation to this question ?

[gg1]

Although i chose C in the first place .. thinking it shud be past perfect.

But since the answer is A.

It cud be that we have to think the time after ... "he came" till now. so present perfect is required.

It is a good example in the sense that wenever there are two chronological events

it cud be "had come" .... "came"

or equally

"came" ... "has come"

[aroon7]

i chose C too...
but i guess "ever" here requires a present perfect
because we intend to say - from the past till today there is no one "as close as..."

any suggestions?