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Default care must be taken when answering this question

Usually, I write :

One sometimes cannot find the subject of a sentence when reading a Chinese book.

to lengthen it:

One sometimes cannot find the subject of a sentence when one is reading a Chinese book.

The subject of the sentence is omitted but remains the same.

However, I found a sentence in a university textbook:

Care must be taken when answering this question.

to me, it means:

Care must be taken when care is answering this question.

Do you think this sentence structure is grammatical?
(though understandable)
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