107. Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land, the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.

(A) basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California
(B) basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California
(C) basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California
(D) a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California
(E) a marketing and distribution system importing produce from Florida and California as its base

Solution:

Parallelism*

Reasons…were…’high cost’…’the pressure’ and ‘commercial development’…and ‘noun phrase’ is needed.
Hence, A, B, and C can be eliminated.
E is wrong due to ‘system importing produce’, making the sentence awkward.
D is the best choice.

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