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It will not be possible to implicate melting sea ice in the coastal flooding that many global warming models have projected: just like a glass of water that will not overflow due to melting ice cubes, so melting sea ice does not increase oceanic volume.

(A) like a glass of water that will not overflow due to melting ice cubes,
(B) like melting ice cubes that do not cause a glass of water to overflow,
(C) a glass of water will not overflow because of melting ice cubes,
(D) as melting ice cubes that do not cause a glass of water to overflow,
(E) as melting ice cubes do not cause a glass of water to overflow,

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E)..."just as...so" is the right idiom ! D) is out b/c its not parallel !
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15 Dec 2005, 09:10

As for comparing similiar actions.

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Interesting sentence 8-)

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Just as.........so is the structure.

so we have D and E. D is not ||
so E is the correct choice.
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E is right. Correct idiom "just as .. so".

A/B/C wrong because they are not paralell. D is wrong.

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Good job everyone, OA is E

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