962. 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
Key: A
请问如果选A那么此句中predicted后that被省略是否合适？ | 
