Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices. Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that are not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that are not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, by organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

Market intermediaries, who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that are not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, are called travel agents, such as the internet.

Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

Travel agents are intermediaries that make their livelihood by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.