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The comparison is pretty off here: “In contrast to the injury rates of (dangerous activities)… in such “safe” sports as soccer and basketball, injuries occur…” Somewhere, we need something that’s logically comparable to injury rates, and we just don’t have that here. (A) is out.


This almost sounds better, but the comparison still doesn’t quite work. “Those” is a demonstrative pronoun here – basically, the plural version of “that”, as discussed in our long-winded guide to the word “that.” The best thing to do here is to identify the antecedent of “those”, and then reread the sentence, replacing “those” with its referent.

So we have: “In contrast to the injury rates of (dangerous activities)… the injury rates of “safe” sports such as soccer and basketball have far higher injury rates…” Wait, that sounds good at first, but then it stops making sense: “the injury rates of… soccer and basketball have far higher injury rates…”?? Nope, (B) is gone.



I’m OK with this. Now, the comparison is between “supposedly dangerous activities” and “’safe’ sports such as soccer and basketball. The “which” is fine – and it’s in all five answer choices, anyway. I don’t see any problems here. Keep (C).


Another illogical comparison: “the injury rates” are compared to “’safe’ sports such as soccer and basketball.” (D) is gone.


This looks a little bit like (A): “supposedly dangerous activities” is being compared to “in such safe sports as soccer and basketball”, and that doesn’t work. (E) is gone, and (C) is our winner.