gmat prep -30

30. The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final try outs are held for athletes representing the US in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.

A.) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation

B.) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
C.) are geared to enhance athletes performance and their preparation
D.) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
E.)  are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them(由于其前面有两个复数名词，The sports Medicine Programs和athletes，到底这个代词指代的是哪个名词？？？？？？）请指教

A: is 应该改复数，toward 后面不平行

B: is 应该改复数

C: enhance their preparation 不合逻辑

D: and前后不平行

E: correct

我觉得是指athletes 如果指programs 句意上说不通而且指代太远了

怎么这里又不存在歧义了呢？

是不是可以这么理解：当指示代词跟它的名词足够近，并且中间没有其他名词来混淆的话，即使句子前面还有名词可以指代，也会认为这个代词就是指代它前面的名词，而不存在歧义的？？？

prepare them...有这样用法的吗？

我怎么觉得them就是指代athletes啊？请问ivyqxx认为指代谁呢？