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In April 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference on new findings that indicates a child's acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as an active process that may be largely completed before age three.
A. that indicates a child’s acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
B. that are indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
C. to indicate that when a child acquires language, thinking, and emotional skills,
that it is
D. indicating that a child's acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
E. indicative of a child's acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills as

想起问一下关于Answer E the indicative of A as B是何意思,又为何不能选呢,我选E是因为认为D indicating that A is B改变句意,请各位大大指正！！

D. indicate that acquisition is ...

E. indicative  抽象adj.