8. Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance. (A) would gradually undermine it (B) to be a gradual undermining of it (C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity (D) to gradually undermine ethnicity（A） (E) gradually undermining it 答案a不是让句子有了两个谓语了：predicted，would undermine 请大家解答，谢谢。 | 
