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2.     Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.

(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as

(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if

(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as

(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as（A）

(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

为什么不是D,意思上不是应该MODERN CRITICS被EARLY SCHOLARS取笑吗
?

意思应该是modern critics被逗乐了。被什么事情逗乐了呢？是early scholar把Tacitus's germania归类成ethnographic treatise这件事情