Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. 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.

Thanks to improvements in Health Care, an average human being lives double than he used to in the Nineteenth century.

  1. an average human being lives double than he used to

  2. an average human being lives twice as much as humans

  3. life of average human being has a doubling of what it was

  4. an average human being lives twice than humans used to

  5. the average life of human beings has doubled to that

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; concise and un-ambiguous sentence conveys that an average human being today lives twice as much as humans in the Nineteenth century.

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