thank you all, So D is not correct, but how come ETS change 15 years effort to 15-year effort this time, they are assumed to be different as in attached
260. According to some economists, the July decrease in unemployment so that it was the lowest in two years suggests that the gradual improvement in the job market is continuing.
(A) so that it was the lowest in two years
(B) so that it was the lowest two-year rate
(C) to what would be the lowest in two years
(D) to a two-year low level(E)
(E) to the lowest level in two years
E, the best choice, employs idiomatic construction and uses the precise decrease... to the lowest level. Choices A and B are faulty in construction. The adverbial so that can modify verbs (e.g., decreased) but not nouns (e.g., the decrease). The meaning of lowest two-year rate in B is unclear; in any event the phrase distorts the intended meaning of lowest in two years. In A and B, the referent of it is unclear, as the pronoun could refer to either unemployment or decrease. Choice C improperly uses would be to describe a situation that is presented as a current and known fact. Also, there is no noun for lowest to modify; clearly “the lowest decrease” is not intended. In D, the phrase two-year low level is unidiomatic, as well as unclear in its intended meaning.
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