<p>1) Someone living in a technological, consumption-oriented culture probably taxes the environment at a rate many times that of a country such as Myanmar.</p>
<p>(A) that of a country such as Myanmar
<a href=“B”>b</a>that of someone living in a country like Myanmar<a href=“C”>/b</a> what you find in Myanmar, for instance
(D) the rate in a country such as Myanmar
(E) a citizen of Myanmar, for instance</p>
<p>Why is the answer B and not E? Shouldn’t you compare a citizen of Myanmar with someone who lives in a technological, consumption-oriented culture?</p>
<p>2) After teaching, becoming involved in several fashion enterprises, and after she founded the Harlem Institute of Fashion, Lois Alexander Lane launched the Black Fashion Museum.</p>
<p>(A) after she founded
<a href=“C”>b</a> founding<a href=“E”>/b</a> having founded</p>
<p>Why is the answer C and not E?</p>
<p>First and foremost replace your answer choice (E) as the answer.</p>
<p>Someone living in a technological, consumption-oriented culture probably taxes the environment at a rate many times a citizen of Myanmar, for instance.</p>
<p>Even by just reading it, you could tell there are flaws. You were probably under the illusion by the choice that it would actually sound better than it actually does.</p>
<p>There’s fundamentally no comparison in (E). There is no “that” or “as”.
Also, you are also comparing the the amount of taxation to a citizen.</p>
<p>2) Parallelism is the key here. Notice how all the preceding verbs end in -ing. Also, I believe the correct way to say it is “having found” not “having founded”… but I may be wrong here.</p>
<p>1) You’re right that you should compare a person with a person. However, the “someone” of this question is not being compared to anything. His rate of taxing the environment is being compared. You have to compare similar things, so you must compare the rate to a rate. This leaves A, B, and D. The sentence describes a person’s rate, not a country’s rate. This eliminates A and d, leaving B.</p>
<p>2) As the poster above correctly pointed out, the issue here is parallelism. A is wrong because it entirely ignores parallelism. However, E is the wrong tense. Note that the other verbs are “teaching”, not “having taught”, and “becoming involved”, not “having become involved”. Similarly, the correct choice is C, “founding”, which is in the same tense as the other verbs.</p>