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Excerpt from Big Cats Facing Extinction Part A Kate McConnaughey (9) Famous conservation leaders George Adamson and Diane Fossey who saw them as a threat were killed by poachers. Read the passage. Look at the underlined section marked number (9). There may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. If you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as is.’ A) Correct as is. B) Famous conservation leaders who saw George Adamson and Diane Fossey as a threat were killed by poachers. C) Famous conservation leaders George Adamson and Diane Fossey were killed who saw them as a threat by poachers. D) Famous conservation leaders George Adamson and Diane Fossey were killed by poachers who saw them as a threat.

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Answer: D) Famous conservation leaders George Adamson and Diane Fossey were killed by poachers who saw the, as a threat.

Explanation: The correct answer is chose by looking for the correct meaning of the phrase, in this case, George Adamson and Diane Fossey were famous conservation leaders, they were killed by poachers and the reason they were killed is that the poachers saw them as a threat, so the option that express those three ideas is "D".


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