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.

You are basically-traversing a sea of radiation in space; we want to get humans to where they are going as fast as possible, so we don't fry our astronauts.

  1. so we don't fry our astronauts

  2. we don't want to fry our astronauts

  3. we don't fry our astronauts

  4. so we don't want to fry our astronauts

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'So' indicates a result. But the clause indicates reverse flow. This option makes the expression simple: we want to…we don't want to…