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1. Charlotte Parkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century
feminist, called for urban apartment houses including
child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating
and social facilities.
feminist, called for urban apartment houses including
child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating
and social facilities.
(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban
houses including communal eating and social facilities
houses including communal eating and social facilities
(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered
suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered
suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered
suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered
suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included
suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included
2. The odds are about 4 to 1 against surviving a takeover
offer, and many business consultants therefore advise that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these
be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.
offer, and many business consultants therefore advise that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these
be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.
(A) that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers
like these be to even refuse
like these be to even refuse
(B) that a company’s first line of defense in eluding such
offers be to refuse even
offers be to refuse even
(C) a company defending itself against offers of this kind
that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
(D) companies which are defending themselves against such an
offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
(E) that the first line of defense for a company who is
eluding offers like these is the refusal even.
eluding offers like these is the refusal even.
3. Japan received
huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using
it to help build a modern industrial system.
huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using
it to help build a modern industrial system.
(A) Japan received huge sums of capital from the United
States after the Second World War, using it to help build
States after the Second World War, using it to help build
(B) Japan received huge sums of capital from the United
States after the Second World War and used it to help in building
States after the Second World War and used it to help in building
(C)Japan used the huge sums of capital it received from the
United States after the Second World
United States after the Second World
War to help build
(D) Japan’s huge sums of capital received from the United
States after the Second World War were used to help it in building
States after the Second World War were used to help it in building
(E) Receiving huge sums of capital from the United States
after the Second World War, Japan used it to help build
after the Second World War, Japan used it to help build
4. Although one link in the chain was demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require
the recall of the automobile.
the recall of the automobile.
(A) demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to
require
require
(B) demonstrated as weak, but it was not sufficiently so
that it required
that it required
(C) demonstrably weak, but not sufficiently so to require
(D) demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require
(E) demonstrably weak, it was not weak enough that it
required
required
5. Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that
Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of
case-by-case adjudication has been
necessary to develop and enforce
the principle that all juries must be drawn from “a fair cross section
of the community.”
Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of
case-by-case adjudication has been
necessary to develop and enforce
the principle that all juries must be drawn from “a fair cross section
of the community.”
(A) has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle
that all juries must be
that all juries must be
(B) was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle
of all juries being
of all juries being
(C) was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the
principle of all juries to be
principle of all juries to be
(D) is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that
all juries must be
all juries must be
(E) will be necessary for developing and enforcing the
principle of all juries being
principle of all juries being
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6. The
modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million
dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980’s.
modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million
dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980’s.
(A) The modernization program for the steel mill will cost
approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the
late 1980’s.
approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the
late 1980’s.
(B) The modernization program for the steel mill, hopefully
completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
(C) Modernizing the steel mill, hopefully to be completed in
the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
(D) The program for modernizing the steel mill, which can,
it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980’s and cost approximately 51 million
dollars.
it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980’s and cost approximately 51 million
dollars.
(E) Modernizing the steel mill, a program that can, it is hoped,
be completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
be completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
7. Camus broke with Sartre in a bitter dispute over the nature of Stalinism.
(A) in a bitter dispute over
(B) over bitterly disputing
(C) after there was a bitter dispute over
(D) after having bitterly disputed about
(E) over a bitter dispute about
8. Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern European
architecture more apparent than their
government buildings.
architecture more apparent than their
government buildings.
(A) more apparent than their
(B) so apparent as their
(C) more apparent than in its
(D) so apparent than in their
(E) as apparent as it is in its
9. Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup
of sites damaged by toxic chemicals permits compensating
state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not
allow claims for injury to people.
of sites damaged by toxic chemicals permits compensating
state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not
allow claims for injury to people.
(A) compensating state governments for damage to
(B) compensating state governments for the damaging of
(C) giving state governments compensation for damaging
(D) giving compensation to state governments for the damage
of
of
(E) the giving of compensation to state governments for
damaging
damaging
10. The lawyer for the defense charged that she suspected
the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversations with her
client and then used the information
obtained to find evidence supporting
their murder charges.
the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversations with her
client and then used the information
obtained to find evidence supporting
their murder charges.
(A) used the information obtained to find evidence
supporting
supporting
(B) used such information as they obtained to find evidence
supporting
supporting
(C) used the information they had obtained to find evidence that
would support
would support
(D) of using the information they had obtained to find
evidence that would support
evidence that would support
(E) of using such information as they obtained to find
evidence that would be supportive of
evidence that would be supportive of
11. According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug
Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977
survey.
Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977
survey.
(A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey
(B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported
(C) twice those the 1977 survey reported
(D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey
(E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey
12. Inflation has made many Americans re-evaluate their
assumptions about the future; they
still expect to live better than their parents have, but not so well as
they once thought they could.
assumptions about the future; they
still expect to live better than their parents have, but not so well as
they once thought they could.
(A) they still expect to live better than their parents have
(B) they still expect to live better than their parents did
(C) they still expect to live better than their parents had
(D) still expecting to live better than their parents had
(E) still expecting to live better than did their parents
Answers:
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. E
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. D
11. E
12. B
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. E
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. D
11. E
12. B
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