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263. In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the lliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

1. resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria,
   

   
   

2. the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and
   

   
   

3. because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,
   

   
   

4. as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,
   

   
   

5. Alexandria's largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was

答案是D，相比较而言，D确实错得更少，但the largest 也有歧义，既可修饰the library，又可修饰Alexandria，是吗？还是说省略部分（the library）一定要在前文出现过（因CITY前文未出现过）？

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good question.

as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest (library) of the ancient world,

But, if it changes to ....

as a result of the destruction of the library at City Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,

Then there is a problem. Like you mentioned, the largest of what?

还是不太清楚这个歧义是怎么被你通过断句，给轻松的消灭掉得，呵呵