lead to do, lead to doing, 885 sec A9

9.     It was an increase in reported cases of malaria along the Gulf Coast that in 1921 led the health authorities’ granting a permit for experimentation with human subjects to the group that later would be called by the name of Unimedco.

(A) authorities’ granting a permit for experimentation with human subjects to the group that later would be called by the name of

(B) authorities’ granting a permit for experimentation with human subjects to the group that later to be called by the name of

(C) authorities’ granting a permit for experimentation using human subjects to the group that later would be called by the name of

(D) authorities to grant a permit for human experimentation to the group later called（D）

(E) authorities to grant a permit for human experimentation to the group that later would be called by the name of

答案是D

我翻查字典说

lead to do是诱惑引诱怂恿的意思

lead to doing 是导致的意思

从句子看，似乎，导致更好一点，那么为什么选D呢

lead sb to do / lead to do 可以解释为：引导；导致或诱惑；

lead to doing是lead to sth的变体，当有sb出现时，lead sb to doing这种结构就是错误的。

谢谢答复

我在longman词典上看到这么一句

The scandal lead to him resigning.

是不是lead to sb doing是可以的

谢谢各位大牛

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