| 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
我看过以前的讨论，好像都没有定论。
有种说法是：wisdom (that predicted processes of modernization and rationalization) would gradually undermine it，但是这样的话，country to（介词短语）怎么能接一个完整的句子？ | 
