Rewrite the sentence to eliminate ambiguous, remote, or broad reference.

since the car drips oil on the driveway, put a piece of cardboard under it.

ANSWER:

Put a piece of cardboard under the car since it drips oil on the driveway.

EXPLANATION:

If we examine the original sentence, we'll notice that we cannot be sure where to put the cardboard under. "It" in the sentence may refer to the car, the oil, or possibly the driveway. Writing it in a way such that the thought is clear would be the best way to structure the sentence.

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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.

i believe that the correct answer is (d) the struggle between tradition and change.

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