Multiple choice

Directions: A part of the sentence is underlined. Five different ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choose the best alternative among the five.

Because of the efforts of advocates of the soft path of solar energy, the economics of nuclear power are open to closer examination than they ever were before.

  1. open to closer examination than they ever were before

  2. being more closely examined now than ever before

  3. being closely examined more now than ever before

  4. more closely examined than before
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B Correct answer
Explanation

“Open to closer examination” needs to be replaced with the comparative “being more closely examined”. Hence, (2).

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