Question

Read the excerpt from a report.

(1) Cleaning up the existing garbage in the ocean would begin to address the issue of climate change. (2) A company called the Ocean Cleanup Project has successfully developed a self-contained system that collects ocean garbage. (3) It uses the natural forces of the ocean to dump floating plastic. (4) The system consists of a thing, which holds a ten-foot screen below and catches the waste. (5) It would be awesome to have a bunch of these systems removing garbage.

Which revision improves the precision of the text?

In sentence 1, change “address” to “impact.”
In sentence 2, change “self-contained” to “one-of-a-kind.”
In sentence 3, change “ocean” to “sea.”
In sentence 4, change “thing” to “barrier.”

Answer 1

D. In sentence 4, change “thing” to “barrier.”

Step-by-step explanation:

The system consists of a thing, which holds a ten-foot screen below and catches the waste.

Answer 2

In sentence 4, change “thing” to “barrier.”

Step-by-step explanation:

Text precision means making the text more specific or understandable, making the explanation easy to comprehend by the readers. It can also be the process of making the detail exact, accurate, correct, etc.

In the given text, the excerpt talks of cleaning garbage in oceans by a newly developed system. And by changing the word "thing" used in sentence 4 to "barrier", the readers will know what the author was referring to or talking about.

Thus, the correct answer is the fourth option.