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Medium Reading and Writing · Standard English Conventions · None · MCQ

A study published in the journal Nature Communications suggests that people who have a high level of curiosity are more likely to engage in "purposeless" information-seeking behaviors: that is, seeking out information even when they know that they won’t benefit from it. This finding, the researchers say, supports the idea that curiosity is an intrinsic drive—a desire to acquire information for its own sake, rather than a means to an end. This finding, the researchers say, supports the idea that curiosity is an intrinsic drive—a desire to acquire information for its own sake, rather than a means to an end.

Which choice provides the best way to combine the sentences in the underlined portion without changing the meaning?

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This finding, the researchers say, supports the idea that curiosity is an intrinsic drive, a desire to acquire information for its own sake, rather than a means to an end.
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This finding, the researchers say, supports the idea that curiosity is an intrinsic drive, a desire to acquire information for its own sake, rather than a means to an end.
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This finding, the researchers say, supports the idea that curiosity is an intrinsic drive, a desire to acquire information for its own sake rather than a means to an end.
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This finding, the researchers say, supports the idea that curiosity is an intrinsic drive: a desire to acquire information for its own sake, rather than a means to an end.

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