Read the passage. Throughout his childhood, James had heard rumors about the old man who lived across the street, Mr. Gray. As a joke, the kids in the neighborhood would ring his doorbell, then hide behind the bushes and gleefully snicker at him when he answered and found no one there.

One evening last summer, James saw Mr. Gray standing outside on his porch. His clothes were wrinkled and his hat was torn. The neighborhood kids claimed that he had been kidnapped by spies after inventing a secret radar device. For a moment, the old man met Jimmy’s stare, and time seemed to stand still.
Concentrating on the overall structure of the draft, which best improves the draft?

A. Open the story with a description of Mr. Gray standing on this porch.

B. Move the information about what the neighborhood kids say about Mr. Gray up earlier in the story.

C. Eliminate the last sentence of the story because it does not apply to the rest of the story.

D. Move the first sentence about the rumors James heard to the end of the story.

answer: a

explanation:

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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