Tenses

In some villages in England and Wales, there are still people who still continue to make cheese in the same way as people have been making it for hundreds of years.

Cheers Optilang. But you know we can use the expression "for" with simple past tense as well if the action took place for a period in the past. What do you think?

I guess it's better to say:
In some villages in England and Wales, there are people who still continue to make cheese in the same way as people made it hundreds of years ago.

Since a native speaker has already piped in, I am not a native speaker so I only beg for an answer to clarify my own confusion.
My initial thought to this question is A - with the following logic.

To me, the sentence is comparing two groups of people: modern people (people who still continue to ...) and "ancient" (for lack of a better word) people. So I thought, the structure of the

It is not about the people, it is about the process of making cheese. The process that is used today is the same process that was used two or three hundred years ago (possibly even longer). The process has remained the same throughout that time.

Thanks for the explanation. 
Please bear with me a bit longer - I am just too **** to let go here.

If a process has remained throughout the time (from the past TO the present), it would indicate that CLEARLY there ARE

people who still make cheese the way their great great grandparents did. Why then is it such a surprise that

"In some villages, there are people who S

"In some villages, there are people who STILL continue to make cheese (in) the same way as people who have been making it for hundreds of years"

It may be the case that not everyone in the villages follows the traditional cheese-making process. Also, STILL doesn't necessarily imply surprise. I believe it used here to emphasise the fact that people continue with the age-old process.

In some villages in England and Wales, there are people who still continue to make cheese in the same way as people --it for hundreds of years.
A) had made
B) made
C) will make
D) have been making
E) are making

Is the answer B or D? I couldn't decide. Or is there anything wrong with the question?

In some villages in England and Wales, there are people who sti

HexFumes1Is the answer B or D?

D. have been making (because of still and continue).
Otherwise it would have been something like this:

In some villages ... there are people who have recently taken up again an old practice which was thought to have been lost in the mists of history -- making cheese they way they made it