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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.

Rote learning, the process of memorizing by repetition, is how many young children learn the alphabet or the multiplication tables.

(A) is how
(B) is used for when
(C) this is how
(D) the way
(E) which is used when

答案和解析

答案：A

解析：

Choice (A) is correct. It avoids the errors of the other options by using a main verb, "is," to link the subject of the sentence, "Rote learning," to a description of the ways in which this type of learning is used.