Directions for questions 1-2 Read the following early draft of an essay and then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement
(1) Seaweed-based fuel could one day power your car (2) It is more than just and
ingredient in a punfying face mask or a sushi roll. (3) According to new research,
Seaweed has the potential to become an advanced biofue/ known as biobutanol
(4) In the past, U. S. scientists have looked to the possibility of algae-based biofuels, but
most of these explorations have shied away from Kelp and seaweed (5) One reason why
seaweed may not have taken off as a potential fuel source is the fact that it's not a
major part of American cukure (6) in contrast, in Asian countries such as Japan, there
has been a long history of seaweed in the cuisine (7) Japanese researchers are much
more familiar with it and have spent decades studying its potential uses
(8) A second reason for the U. S. avoidance of seaweed-based biofuel is the country's lack
of experience with seaweed farming (9) The U. S. is no stranger to seaweed harvesting
(10) However
, for the biobutanol project to be environmentally sustainable, seaweed
cannot be harvested, it must be fammed (11) "one of the challenges of harvesting a
natural seaweed bed is you can only (use) a certain percent of the bed if you dont want
10 have a negative erwonmental impact,- Mikesh Parekh, CEO of Bio Architecture Lab, said
(12) Farming enough seaweed to support mass production of biofuel would be very expensive
inally, but it could pay off handsomely (13) They say that the seaweed-based fuel
would work better in automobiles than ethanol and be easier to transport
1. In context, which of the following is the best way to revise and combine sentences 1 and 2
(reproduced below)?
Seaweed-based fuel could one day power your car. It is more than just an ingredient in a
purifying face mask or a sushi roll
O A Seaweed-based fuel could one day power your car, it is more than just an ingredient in a purifying face mask or sushi roll
B Seaweed-based fuel could one day power your car because it is more than just and ingredient in a purifying face mask or sushi roll.
OC Seaweed is more than just an ingredient in a purifying face mask or sushi roll, seaweed based fuel could one day power your car.
D. Fuel form seaweed could one day power your car so it is more than just an ingredient in a purifying mask or sushi roll
2. In context, which of the following sentences would best be inserted between sentences 9
and 10?
A New research shows that seaweed may also possess the power to repair tissue damage in heart attack patients
• B. Planting a large-scale seaweed farm will likely meet stiff opposition
OC Maine Seaweed Co, for instance, harvests the seaweed naturally available along the US coast