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. In the last three hundred years, man has created a magnificent industrial society, produced machines that do much of the work for him and has gathered an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe.