Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Giant Squid, a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, lives at depths up to one km, where it was long thought that it was immune from human intervention.

  1. was long thought that it was immune from

  2. was long thought to have become immune from

  3. was long thought as being immune to

  4. was long thought to be immune to

  5. was long thought to have been immune to
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; compact sentence without any ambiguity; removes error of incorrect word usage by using 'immune to'

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