GMAT Test Help/GMAT Sentence Correction Quizzes/Quiz 9

1. The doctrinal dispute resulted in the dismissal of the president of the seminary, who was charged with teaching false doctrine and with administrative misconduct. (A) charged with teaching false doctrine and with administrative misconduct (B) charged with teaching false doctrine and administrative misconduct (C) being charged that he taught false doctrine and administrative misconduct (D) charged with both false doctrine teaching and administrative misconduct (E) teaching false doctrine and administrative misconduct as charged

2. The reason why the winged bean can thrive on poor soil is because their roots house bacteria that can turn atmospheric nitrogen into fertilizer. (A) is because their roots house bacteria that can turn (B) is because its roots house bacteria which can turn (C) is that their roots house bacteria turning (D) is that its roots house bacteria that can turn (E) being that its roots house bacteria and can turn

3. Before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, King Shaka built a Zulu empire extending over hundreds of thousands of square miles and that contained some two million inhabitants. (A) extending over hundreds of thousands of square miles and that contained (B) extensive over hundreds of thousands of square miles, and it contained (C) that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and containing (D) that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained (E) which was extending over thousands of square miles and containing

4. If present metal prices continue to sharply rise, the value of the copper in a penny will soon be greater than the face value of the coin. (A) If present metal prices continue to sharply rise, (B) If present metal prices are continuing their sharp rise, (C) Should present metal prices continue their sharp rise, (D) Continuation of sharply rising metal prices should mean that (E) Metal prices’ sharp rise continuing should mean that

5. When his wife committed suicide, Shelley was denied custody of his children on the grounds of his atheism, because he was immoral in behavior, and his radical politics. (A) atheism, because he was immoral in behavior, and his (B) atheism, immorality in behavior, and his (C) atheism, his immorality in behavior, and (D) atheism, his immoral behavior, and his (E) being an atheist, immoral in behavior, and having

6. The cause of Osgood’s syndrome is unknown, nor is it known why the disease appears to be increasing in the United States. (A) unknown, nor is it known (B) unknown, neither do they know (C) not known, nor do they know (D) not known, unknown too is (E) not known, neither do they know

15. Rising costs have made it imperative for ski resort owners finding some way of keeping their facilities operating during the summer months. (A) for ski resort owners finding some way of keeping (B) ski resort owners should find some way to keep (C) that ski resort owners should find some way of keeping (D) that ski resort owners find some way to keep (E) ski resort owners will find some way keeping

16. Today, even when rustlers are convicted, their sentences tend to be light compared to the days of the early West when cattle rustlers were hanged from the nearest tree. (A) compared to the days of the early West when (B) compared with those in the days of the early West in which (C) compared with those in the days of the early West when (D) in comparison with them of the early Western days when (E) in comparison to the days of the early West in which

17. Whether modern statistical techniques can be usefully applied to the past, and to a society quite different from our own, is an issue historians and economists are currently debating. (A) Whether modern statistical techniques can be usefully applied to the past, and to a society quite different from our own, is an issue (B) If modern statistical techniques can be usefully applied to the past, and to a society quite different from our own, are issues (C) That modern statistical techniques can be usefully applied to the past, and to a society quite different from our own, are issues (D) Modern statistical techniques being usefully applied to the past, and to a society quite different from our own, is an issue (E) The useful application of modern statistical techniques to the past, and to a society quite different from our own, is an issue

18. There has been a change in how men think of land, a change from thinking it simply private property to that now of a limited national resource, with an inherent public interest transcending the individual owner’s prerogatives. (A) There has been a change in how men think of land, a change from thinking it simply private property to that now of (B) There have been changes in how men think of land, a change from that of simple private property to now that of (C) There has been a change in how men think of land, a change from once considering it simply private property to now considering it (D) Once men used to think of land as simply private property, but they consider it now (E) Once thought of simply as private property, land is now considered

19. At a conference on the origins of language, the complexity of tools 1.75 million years old were said to suggest a level of human development, inconceivable unless they had language. (A) were said to suggest a level of human development inconceivable unless they had language (B) were said to suggest that without language their level of human development was not conceivable (C) was said to be suggestive of a level of human development not conceivable without language (D) was said to suggest a level of human development inconceivable unless they had language (E) was said to suggest a level of human development inconceivable without language

20. Why painting the face and perfuming the body should have persisted throughout recorded history has been the subject of a substantial amount of anthropological and psychological speculation. (A) Why painting the face and perfuming the body should have persisted (B) How painting the face and perfuming the body could be persistent (C) That painting the face and perfuming the body are persisting (D) Painting the face and perfuming the body persisting (E) The persisting of face painting and body perfuming

21. The Namib Desert along the southwest coast of Southern Africa, and where the cold Antarctic Ocean currents create a steady thermal inversion, is one of the driest regions on earth. (A) and where the cold Antarctic Ocean currents create (B) and where the cold currents of the Antarctic Ocean creates (C) where the cold Antarctic Ocean currents has created (D) and an area where the cold Antarctic Ocean currents create (E) an area where the cold Antarctic Ocean currents create

22. Apparently convinced that victory was his and confronting the issues might bring out differences not only among the general electorate and among Republicans, Dewey made no direct attack on Truman’ s policies. (A) confronting the issues might bring out differences not only among the general electorate and (B) confronting the issues may bring out differences not only among the general electorate but a iso (C) to confront the issues might bring out differences not only among the general electorate and (D) that confronting the issues may bring out differences not only among the general electorate but (E) that confronting the issues might bring out differences not only among the general electorate but also

23. The three plays in Preston Jones’s “A Texas Trilogy” are completely independent, and each has only a peripheral relationship with the other. (A) independent, and each has only a peripheral relationship with the other (B) independent, and each has only a peripheral relationship one with another (C) independent, and they have only a peripheral relationship with the others (D) independent and have only a peripheral relationship with one another (E) independent and have only a peripheral relationship each with the other

24. Unlike the law protecting endangered animals, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s listing of endangered plants does not prohibit collectors to take listed plants from the wild if in doing so they comply with state laws. (A) to take listed plants from the wild if in doing so they comply with state laws (B) from taking listed plants from the wild if they are so doing in compliance with state laws (C) from taking listed plants from the wild if in doing so they comply with state laws (D) who take listed plants from the wild should they be in compliance with state laws (E) that take listed plants from the wild so long as they are doing so by being in compliance with state laws

25. In bourgeois culture, where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician, parents often make great sacrifices to put their children through secondary school and college. (A) where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician (B) where it is considered more noble to be a lawyer or a metaphysician than to run machines (C) which consider that running machines is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician (D) which considers it more noble to be a lawyer or a metaphysician than running machines (E) considering it more noble being a lawyer or a metaphysician than to run a machine

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Please can somebody convert this to quiz....or I'll do soon if not done by anyone elseVipulpratap 04:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)