Grammar SAT Question from May 2011

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New Mexico is rich in remarkably well-preserved ruins, such as the multi-storied adobe “pueblos to provide visitors with insight into” the lives of early inhabitants of the Southwest.

(a) pueblos to provide visitors with insight into
(b) pueblos, providing visitors with insight for
© pueblos, they provide for visitors an insight of
(d) pueblos that provide visitors with insight into
(e) pueblos and provide visitors insight to

Can someone explain why the answer is d? Why is it wrong to use “to” and right to use “that”?

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“to” would imply a sense of deliberate purpose, as if the the pueblos were deliberately built, ruined, and then preserved in order to “provide visitors with insight.”

“that” simply indicates that the ruins “provide visitors with insight” without suggesting they do so by design. That the “insight” thing is a coincidence.

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thank you so much!