Category:Quiz
1 There has been a 30-fold increase in the incidence of malaria caused by increasing mosquito resistance against pesticides.
2 Aging is a property ofJ1animakthat reach a fixed size at maturity， and the variations in life spans among different species are far greater as that among individuals from the same species: a fruit fly is ancient at 40 days, a mouse at 3years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoises at 150.
3 The herbicide Oryzalin was sti11 being produced in 1979, three years after the wives of workers producing the chemical in Rensselaer, New York, were found to have borne children with heart defects or miscarriages, and none of their pregnancies was normal.
4 Never before in the history of music have musical superstars been able to command so extraordinary fees of the kind they do today。
5 As it becomes more frequent to have spouses who both work outside the home, companies are beginning to help in finding new employment for the spouses of transferred employees.
6 Like the one reputed to live in Loch Ness, also an inland lake connected to the ocean by a river, inhabitants of the area around Lake Champlain claim sightings of a long and narrow "sea monster."
7 Since 1965 there are four times as many Black college students enrolled, and the one million Black people in college today represent 11 percent of all college students.
8 A common disability in test pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time.
9 Europe's travel industry is suffering as a result of a sluggish economy， a stretch of bad weather， as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that is persistent.
10 Opening with tributes to jazz-age divas like Bessie smith and closing with Koko Taylor's electrified gravel-and-thunder songs，the program will trace the blues' vigorous matriarchal line over more than 50 years.
11 In 1929 relatively small declines in the market ruined many speculators having bought on margin; they had to sell, and their selling pushed other investors to the brink.
12 The mistakes children make in learning to speak tell linguists more about how they learn language than the correct forms they use.
13 Building 1arge new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources， on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone.
14 Freedman's survey showed that people living in small towns and rural areas consider themselves no happier than do people living in big cities.
15 It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive.
16 The underlying physica1 principles that control the midair gyrations of divers and gymnasts are the same as the body orientation controlling astronauts in a weightless environment.
17 The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents， weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had anticipated.
18 To read of Adams' lengthy separation from her family， her difficult travels， and her constant battles with illness is to fell intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
19 A star wil1 compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
20 In the main， incidents of breakdowns in nuclear reactors have not resulted from lapses of high technology but commonplace inadequacies in plumbing and wiring.
21 Seeming to be the on1y organization fighting for the rights of poor people in the South， Hosea Hudson，a 1aberer in Alabama，joined the Communist party in 1931.
22 Although many art patrons can readi1v differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one， they are much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and fakes.
23 Rules banning cancer－causing substances from food apply to new food additives and not to natura1 constituents of food because their use as additives is entirely avoidable。
24 The average weekly wage near1y doub1ed in the l970' s， rising from ＄ 114 to ＄ 220， yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their pay may buy.
25 Since chromosome damage may be caused by viral infections， medical x-rays， and exposure to sunlight，it is important that the chromosomes of a population to be tested for chemically induced damage be compared with those of a control population.
26 The suspect in the burglary was advised of his right to remain silent, told he could not leave, and was interrogated in a detention room.
27 The United States petroleum industry's cost to meet environmental regulations is projected at ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum by the end of the decade.
28 The relationship between corpulence and disease remain controversial, although statistics clearly associate a reduced life expectancy with chronic obesity.
29 If industrial pollution continues to deplete the ozone layer， the resulting increase in ultraviolet radiation wil1 endanger human health， causing a rise in the incidence of skin cancer and eye disease， and perhaps even threatening global ecological systems.
30 Quasars are so distant that their light has taken billions of years to reach the Earth； consequently，we see them as they were during the formation of the universe.
31 47．Unlike that of the Native Americans of British Columbia，the Plains，and the Southwest， those of Puget Sound lived in relatively small, autonomous villages.
GMAT Sentence Correction Quizzes/Quiz 3 --Vipulpratap 03:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
