Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Practice Question 227: Answer and Explanation
Question: 227
Even a cursory _______________ will reveal that the single greatest obstacle to the advent of evidence-based medical science was not-as has often been posited-superstition but Hippocratic humorism itself.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. analysis of Western medicine's history
- B. analyses of Western medicines' history
- C. analysis of the history of the medicine of the West
- D. analyzing of the history of medical science in Western society
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
(A) This choice concisely expresses the needed idea, using the singular possessive apostrophe correctly. Choice (B) uses the plural analyses. Choices (C) and (D) are too wordy.
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