464. Just as a writer trying to understand shtetl life might read Shalom Aleichem or Isaac Bashevis Singer, in the same way writers trying to understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records by the Mississippi Delta bluesman Charlie Patton.

(A) in the same way writers trying to understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records
(B) in the same way writers who try and understand Black life in the American South might well listen to record
(C) so a writer trying to understand black life in the American South might well listen to records
(D) so do writers try and understand Black life in the American South and might well listen to a record
(E) then writers trying to understand Black life in the American South could well listen to records

Solution:

Idioms + Parallelism

“Just as X...so Y…” is the correct idiom.
Hence, A, B, and E are unidiomatic because “so” is missing.
D: “Just as a writer trying…so do writers try” is not parallel.
C: “Just as a writer trying… so a writer trying…” is parallel and “just as X so Y” is idiomatic.

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