Shinkansen

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The first shinkansen, or bullet train, which was built in time for the first Tokyo Olympics, reduced from 6 hours and 40 minutes to just four hours the required time of traveling from Tokyo to Osaka.

Review: Shinkansen


Explanation

Creating a filter: the sentence as written has the phrase "the required time of traveling," which sounds unnatural. We examine how that phrase is handled in the other answer choices.

Applying the filter: choices (B) and (C) make the situation even worse by including the gerund "being" unnecessarily. Choice (E) has a strange word order, and it also creates a grammatical error by separating subject and verb by a single comma. The correct answer is (D).


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