OG11-紫本-113 就近修饰的问题

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

(A)  resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria，

(B)  the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and

(C)  because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria，the largest of the ancient world，

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

(E)  Alexandria's largest library of the ancient world was destroyed，and the result was

正确答案D中，the largest of the ancient world，这个短语究竟是修饰Alexandria还是library，这是不是ambiguous呢？

在OG其他的题中有些题会考到就近修饰，应该如何理解呢？

谢谢ls，这个题因为有其他明显的错误可以把错误答案排除，所以可以先不考虑就近修饰。

那么下面这題，排除答案主要是靠就近修饰还是时态问题？

A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.

(A) believed to be

(B) and that is believed to be

(C) and it is believed to have been

(D) which was, it is believed,

(E) which is believed to be

答案是C。A和E在语法上都说得过去，只能根据就近修饰Quetzalcoatlus 还是wingspan不清来排除了。

或者在这句里必须用完成式，所以只能选C？