Directions (1-10): In each of the following sentences, five options are given. You are required to identify the best way of writing the BOLD part in the given sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. Option A repeats the question sentence, if the given sentence is correct as it is. Then, choose option A as correct answer choice.
Q1. Unlike the original National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum, encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece.
(a) exhibit, which thereby activates
(b) exhibit, in turn an activation of
(c) exhibit, and it will activate
(d) exhibit and thereby activate
Q2. More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.
(a) to greater economic development and investing
(b) to greater development economically and investing
(c) of greater economic development and invest
(d) of greater development, economically and invest
(e) for greater economic development and the investment of
Q3. Combining enormous physical strength with higher intelligence, the Neanderthals appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path, but their relatively sudden disappearance during the Paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.
(a) appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,
(b) appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path,
(c) appear as equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their paths,
(d) appeared as equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their paths,
(e) appeared to have been equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,
Q4. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
(a) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
(b) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
(c) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump
(d) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump
(e) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities
Q5. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed.
(a) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are
(b) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one once their horns are
(c) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns have been
(d) if tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns are
(e) if tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one after the animals’ horns have been
Q6. Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.
(a) of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
(b) of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
(c) of their sales a year earlier being as bad as because
(d) their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because
(e) their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that
Q7. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns.
(a) to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns
(b) if they are quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns to rot them
(c) for them to be processed quickly into juice concentrate before the fruit rots when warmer weather returns
(d) if the fruit is quickly processed into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns
(e) to have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit
Q8. Fossils of the arm of a sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old, made it the earliest known mammal of the Greater Antilles Islands.
(a) sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old, made it the earliest known mammal of
(b) sloth, that they found in Puerto Rico in 1991, has been dated at 34 million years old, thus making it the earliest mammal known on
(c) sloth that was found in Puerto Rico in 1991, was dated at 34 million years old, making this the earliest known mammal of
(d) sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on
(e) sloth which, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, was dated at 34 million years old, made the sloth the earliest known mammal of
Q9. Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.
(a) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy,
(b) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food,
(c) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food,
(d) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior,
(e) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior,
Q10. A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has concluded that much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes from the incineration of wastes.
(a) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes
(b) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins that North Americans are exposed to come
(c) much of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and that North Americans are exposed to comes
(d) many of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and North Americans are exposed to come
(e) many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come
Solution
S1. Ans.(d)
S2. Ans.(a)
S3. Ans.(b)
S4. Ans.(d)
S5. Ans.(c)
S6. Ans.(d)
S7. Ans.(e)
S8. Ans.(d)
S9. Ans.(b)
S10. Ans.(e)
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