Question

Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in line [4]?

• A. NO CHANGE
• B. Where job opportunities are most plentiful
• C. And the majority are employed by government agencies
• D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

NO CHANGE

Option A, “no change” is the best answer because the existing sentence meets the required rules and hence needs no change. It effectively signals the shift in the paragraph to the example of the work a transportation planner might perform if he or she were employed in a rural area and asked to consider the effects of a new factory built “on the outskirts of a small town.”

Option B is incorrect because noting that job opportunities are more plentiful in cities does not effectively signal the shift in the paragraph to the example of the work a transportation planner might perform if he or she were employed in a rural area.

Option C is incorrect because noting that most transportation planners work for government agencies does not effectively signal the shift in the paragraph to the example of the work a transportation planner might perform if he or she were employed in a rural area.

Option D is not the correct answer because the proposed deletion would create a jarring shift from the statement “Most transportation planners work in or near cities” to the example of the work a transportation planner might perform if he or she were employed in a rural area.