gmat set SC 1

[clammiestqasar]

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

OA C

[shovan85]

A: "scientist hope will enable them" ambiguity. Wrongly says hope will enable them not the measurements.
B: "are hoping..." continuous form is wrong here.
C: Left out after POE.
D: unnecessarily wordy, "and which" does not fit
E: "are hoping..." continuous form is wrong.

Dont try to see the difference "to make"/"for making"... It will lead no where.