Consuela Kanaza, one of American's important photographers,

D it is
present participle "suffering" can refer to the subject of the preceding clause "Consuela Kanaza". "one of American's important photographers" is just an appositive and thus not part of the "preceding clause".

Consuela Kanaza, one of American's important photographers, continued to work until she was well into seventies, in despite of suffering from emphysema and cancer that were ~

a.
b. until well into seventies, even although she was
c. well into seventies, yet she was
d. well into seventies, despite
e. well into seventies, and even though she was

" in despite of " is an obvious error in A.
"even although" is redundant in B.
"yet" doesn’t make sense in C.
D is the one.
"and even though" is redundant in E.

First of all, there is a guy called Praetorian, who is going to kill us when he finds us disucssing real questions. Kok72, please edit the question a bit when you post real questions. Also, do not reveal that they are real questions. You will get good responses anyway.

Second, I saw everyone going for D. I will choose B, if the option is "until well into seventies, even though she was ". Else, I will go with D. (best among the worst).

The reason I chose B:
1) From my notes (got this from somewhere):
But is normally used for any expectation taht was not met.
Although and Even Though are used to express a negative situation, but a postitive outcome.
Inspite of and Despite are used to express a postive situation, but a negative outcome.
2) Nevertheless, I think 'until' is needed to show that she stopped working at her late seventies (original sentence). Otherwise, it seems like she continued working well past 70s and 80s.

I feel ans should be D because even although is awkard imo -

Please advise !

I think they are all wrong. Well into her seventies is grammatically correct, unless the sentence is referring to the 1970`s????

Assuming it was a typo, take D.

IMO, without "her" is ok, coz her or others' seventies is the same pertaining to the number of years one lives up to. It does make difference between her seventies and his/your seventies ONLY when we're talking about the quality.

When in doubt and running short on time, go for the shortest answer :-D