Explanation
Creating a filter: the grammar of the original sentence is
distorting. The grammatical subject is "view," so the sentence indicates that a
view is an animal, which is illogical and contrary to the intended meaning.
Note that the word "animal," though a noun, is not the grammatical subject of
the sentence as written, because the word "animal" is an object of the
preposition "of." So (A) is out.
Applying the filter: choice (B) indicates that people view
the sheep as ranking with monkeys in intelligence; that's a distortion of the
intended meaning. The equality of rank, in the intended meaning, is a fact
that's contrary to people's view, not in line with it. So (B) is out. Choice
(D) has this same problem, so it's out. Choice (E) also has this problem, among
others. Moreover, "view as" is the proper idiom, not "view to be." The correct
answer is (C).
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