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by sogmat » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:11 pm
Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or “African sleeping sickness,” a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.
(A) are in danger of contracting
(B) are in danger to contract
(C) have a danger of contracting
(D) are endangered by contraction
(E) have a danger that they will contract

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by amitabhprasad » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:02 pm
"danger of" is an idiom

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by logitech » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:06 pm
amitabhprasad wrote:"danger of" is an idiom
Yeap..I was reading an explanation on Kaplan and it goes like this:
It is an idiom, don't ask WHY, just learn it! :)
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