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.

Tropical forests exist close to the equator, where both high temperature and abundant rainfall occurs year-round.

Tropical forests exist close to the equator, where both high temperature and abundant rainfall occurs year-round.

Tropical forests exist closer to the equator, where both high temperature and abundant rainfall occurs year-round.

Tropical forests exist close to the equator, where both high temperatures and abundant rainfalls occur year-round.

Tropical forests exist close to the equator, where both high temperature and abundant rainfall occur year-round.

Tropical forest exists close to the equator, where both high temperature and abundant rainfall occurs year-round.