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Part or all of the following sentence is underlined;beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material.Select the option that produces the best sentence.If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives,select choice A.

About 35 percent of the world's orange juice is produced by Florida, comparing it with nearly 50 percent produced by Brazil, the world's largest orange producer.

(A) comparing it with
(B) but
(C) whereas
(D) although
(E) compared with

答案和解析

答案：E

解析：

Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by removing the vague pronoun "it" so that the percentage of orange juice produced by Florida is directly compared with the percentage produced by Brazil.