According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds. (A) shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate (B) shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved itself helpful as a demonstration of (C) shooting dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful as demonstrating (D) that shoots dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful to demonstrate (E) that shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating
从逻辑关系上看,飞机的机关炮(cannon)的动作(shoot dead chickens)是具体时间的具体行为,而不是多次性的行为(机关炮总是在shoot dead chickens),所以,E选项的that定语从句比A选项的-ing分词短语更符合上下文逻辑关系和生活事理。排除A(强词夺理我认为,完全的强词夺理)