Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The news are too good to be true.
is too good to be true
"News" looks plural because it ends in -s, but it is an uncountable noun and always takes a singular verb: The news is good.
The idiom is "too good to be true", meaning so good that it is hard to believe. The pattern too + adjective + to-infinitive expresses this; "very" or "so" cannot replace "too" before "to be true".
So the corrected sentence is "The news is too good to be true."
Hence, the highlighted part should be replaced with "is too good to be true".
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