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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.

When light from a distant source, such as the sun, it strikes a collection of water drops, such as rain, spray, or fog, a rainbow may appear.

(A) such as the sun, it strikes
(B) like the sun's, striking
(C) such as the sun, and striking
(D) such as the sun, strikes
(E) like the sun's, strikes

答案和解析

答案：D

解析：

Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by removing the unnecessary pronoun "it."