大全88中E为什么不对？

1.                  Although many Whites, noting the presence of some Blacks in the middle class, think that the time for enforcing civil rights measures is past, Blacks generally are aware that the figures for average income and unemployment show as wide of a radical discrepancy as ever.

(A) that the figures for average income and unemployment show as wide of

(B) that average-income and unemployment figures show as wide

(C) that the average-income and unemployment figures are showing as wide of

(D) of average-income and unemployment figures that show as wide of（B）

(E) of figures for average income and unemployment showing as wide

E

E. 试图用分词短语 showing as wide as 表达动作，不对。showing 是修饰谁呢？unemployment?

you mean that "showing" cannot modifiy "average income and unemployment",but "unemployment". So this modification is illogical, whereas in the subordinate clause in B, "show" is a verb which modify the subject of the clause "average income and unemployment".

Is above right?