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.

Studies on extraordinarily high immunity levels of mole-rats can be applied to health problems ranging from the spread of viral infection within a group to HIV+ people being most susceptible to infections.

  1. to HIV+ people being most susceptible to infections

  2. and HIV+ people being most susceptible to infections

  3. to HIV+ people who are most susceptible to infections

  4. to the susceptibility towards infection of people who are HIV+

  5. to the susceptibility of infection to people who are HIV+
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option maintains correct parallelism between 'from the spread of viral infection' and 'to the susceptibility of HIV+ people'.

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