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Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers that show with startling directness the large-scale geometry of the universe.

(A) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers

(B) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth for gathering information about its size and also the curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers

(C) Similar to the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, where they gathered information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations

(D) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth gathering information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations

(E) Just as with the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, gathering information about its size and curvature of the surface, astronomers have made new observations

D中现代分词结构gathering information的前面没有逗号，为什么不可以理解为修饰其紧邻的earth， 而是修饰主语navigator? 

我觉得还是看逻辑意思吧，gathering修饰earth意思上也讲不通阿，所以只能修饰invigator了。

欢迎拍拍

不过很多是不是都因为逻辑does not make sense 所以认定是指代错误呢？

I think 'D' is wrong,

1/ normally 'gathering 'modify the 'the earth',

2/ if 'gathering' modify the navigator( although I don't think it can),  the sentence ' like navigators gathering....astronomers ' the subject can't be compared.

' C' looks better,

1/ why 'similar to' can't be put in the beginning of sentence ?

2/ where is OK, although the sentense doesn't state 'gather on earth', we can infer from navigators-definitely they do everything on earth

这题只能选D

similiar to不能放句首

我也想不通关于D中现代分词结构gathering information的前面没有逗号，为什么不可以理解为修饰其紧邻的earth， 而是修饰主语navigator做伴随状语??看了以上的回答,似乎未能解决.

(D) Like
            the great navigators {who first sailed around the Earth[gathering information (about its size and the curvature of its surface)]}, astronomers have made new observations

    Like A,B...