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DapengL884
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Re: SC: Currently 26 billion barrels a year...

by DapengL884 Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:27 pm

Just took the prep.

the answer B should be

B. the world is consuming oil at an increasing rate of

And that is my wrong answer
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Re: SC: Currently 26 billion barrels a year...

by RonPurewal Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:40 am

i edited the original post. thank you!

with this change, choice B actually becomes much easier to eliminate.
specifically, "26 billion barrels/year" is clearly not a description of THE WORLD... so the initial modifier is nonsense. you don't even have to read past the first two words of the answer choice.