1. 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

我觉得选D。

大家讨论。

以前讨论的一个结果认为D有两个错

1.ethnicity完全可以用it来指代，没有必要重复说。

2. predict sth. to do 不是个习惯表达，正常应是sth. be predicted to do。