单选题 By bare feet, we recognize God, the angels, Jesus Christ and the apostles, but for an artist to have depicted the Virgin Mary with bare feet ______ heresy.
A. were tantamount with B. has been tantamount with
C. would have been tantamount to D. would be tantamount to

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 本题空格所在句中的“but”为转折连词，后面表达的意思“艺术家描绘的赤脚玛丽相当于异端”与过去的事实相反，因此应用虚拟语气形式，C项正确。