GWD7-4 （GWD32套题模考班的）

The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact directly with the mystical level due to an ichana(dream) experience.

E contact directly with the mystical level due to

D direct contact with the latter by means of

选哪个？为什么啊？

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select D, because contact here used as a non, it should be modified by  a adj. If contact here were a verb, it should be "contacted". then can by modified by directly.