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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.

In all the big cities, there is a flood of health clubs which claim to decrease stress level and weight is reduced.

  1. decrease stress level and weight is reduced.
  2. decrease stress level and weight reduces.
  3. decrease stress level and reduce weight.
  4. decrease stress level and reduced weight.
  5. decreasing stress level and reducing weight.