V07-20

Official Solution:

The injury rates of seemingly dangerous sports such as rock climbing and hang gliding are low compared to other seemingly safe sports such as basketball and soccer.

A. to other seemingly safe sports such as basketball and soccer.
B. to that of other seemingly safe sports like basketball and soccer.
C. to those of the rates of seemingly safe sports such as basketball and soccer.
D. with other seemingly safe sports like basketball and soccer.
E. with those of other seemingly safe sports such as basketball and soccer.


Note the misdirection in this question, which seems to force you to make a choice between "compared to" and "compared with", or between "like" and "such as". While there are justifications for making those decisions (more on that below), if you read carefully you can answer this question using pure IMPACTS logic. First, notice that we're comparing the injury rates or certain sports in the non-underlined portion, so we'll need to ensure that the underlined portion completes that comparison logically. We'll therefore need "those of', which is only found in C and E. At this point, a keen reader will notice that C is actually redundant, reading "those of the injury rates of...". This renders the "those of" construction superfluous as injury rates are already in this clause. So C must be incorrect and the only possible choice is E. Without delving too deeply into nitty-gritty grammar, you can solve this question with logic.

Now, with that said, some grammar knowledge can be quite helpful, so you should recognize the difference between "like" and "such as". "Such as" is used when the list includes those items (I like foods such as pizza... means you like pizza) and "like° is used when the list is only used as an analogy (I like foods like pizza... means you like pasta and calzones, but not pizza).


Answer: E