Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read Each Passage

question 3

Multiple Choice

Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read each passage.Then select the letter of the best paraphrase.
Jet travel has altered the way Americans lived and thought more than anything else, including the Internet.By enhancing mobility, jets-like railroads in the nineteenth century-advanced a truly national market.They made it possible for Disney World and Las Vegas to become national destinations, and they allowed Harvard to recruit from the West Coast and Stanford from the East.
(Adapted from Robert J.Samuelson, "Requiem for the Jet Age?"
Newsweek, November 26, 2001, p.61.)
Paraphrase

• A) The airline industry has revolutionized modern American life much more than the Inter-net has.Jets are also superior to railroads, although both increase people's ability to get where they're going much faster.If it weren't for the airlines, places like Disney World and Las Vegas probably wouldn't even exist, and the big universities would be much smaller.
• B) Jet travel is much more important than the Internet.Jets, like railroads, enable people to go anywhere they want to go.Without a doubt, they created the whole travel industry and allowed universities to increase their enrollments.
• C) The airline industry has changed American life more than any other modern innovation.Because jets, like trains, improved people's ability to go anywhere in the country, they opened up vacation spots like Disney World and Las Vegas to an entire nation of consumers.They also allowed students to attend universities that were far away from their homes.

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