Question

At the end of 2001, motion picture industry representatives said that there were about a million copies of Hollywood movies available online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available.
A) online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available
B) online and expect the increase of piracy with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections
C) online, and they expect more piracy to increase with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections
D) online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available
E) online, and that they expected piracy to increase as high-speed Internet connections became more widely available

Answer 1

Answer:

D) online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available.

Explanation:

The correct sentence would be:

At the end of 2001, motion picture industry representatives said that there were about a million copies of Hollywood movies available online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available.

• movies available online (a comma is missing hear) and ("that they" is missing as a way connecting both phrases) expected piracy.
• with ("as" is missing) high-speed Internet connections that ("would" is missing because we are talking about the future) become more widely available.