GWD27-Q18中指代的问题

ly1st

       The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft will orbit the asteroid Eros for a year, slowly moving closer to the surface of the object to make ever more precise measurements that scientists hope will enable them to understand how the solar system formed some four billion years ago.

A.      to make ever more precise measurements that scientists hope will enable them to

B.      to make ever more and more precise measurements, which scientists are hoping to enable them

C.      for making ever more precise measurements, and scientists hope that they will be able to

D.      with the purpose of making more precise measurements than ever, and which scientists hope will enable them to

E.       in order to make more precise measurements than it ever did, and scientists are hoping they will be able to

      A选项them指代有歧义吗？原来的帖子说them会指代measurements，但我觉得不可能，把原句化简measurements （that scientists hope） will enable them ，如果原文要指代measurements的话，要用反身代词才比较合理。但同时，如果说them指代scientists的话，我又觉得不太合理，毕竟that scientists hope是插入语，可以这样就近指代吗？迷惑中。。。。。。。。。。。。

lijiahui0422

我觉得更主要的是逻辑判断，them 后面跟的understand,只能是scientist发出的，另外其它选项也没什么特别吸引人的地方...