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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

In the original sentence, the use of "which" incorrectly implies that the key interest rate has the curious effect, when in fact it is the raising of the interest rate that does. Also, "lowering housing prices instead of raise them" is not a parallel construction. And it is preferable to use "rather than" with verbs, in place of "instead of," which is better used with nouns.

(A) This choice is the same as the original sentence.

(B) CORRECT. This choice remedies the incorrect use of "which." Moreover, it contains the parallel construction "lowering housing prices rather than raising them." Finally, "rather than" is correctly used here in place of "instead of."

(C) This choice corrects the parallelism issue, but it still incorrectly uses "which" and "instead of."

(D) This choice incorrectly uses "which."

(E) This choice incorrectly uses "instead of" and contains the unparallel construction "lowering housing prices instead of raise them."