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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.

They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions can be found only in Gir, a forest region in northwest India.

(A) They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions
(B) Its counterparts in Africa are bigger, but the Asiatic lion
(C) The Asiatic lion is smaller than their counterparts in Africa, they
(D) The counterparts of African lions in Asia are smaller, although they
(E) Smaller than their counterparts in Africa, Asiatic lions

答案和解析

答案：E

解析：

Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the faulty logic of the original by removing the unnecessary pronoun "They" and the conjunction "so" so that the size of the two types of lions is the only thing being compared.