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Old 01-29-2005, 07:39 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Questions from 1996-05 Structure section

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Originally Posted by mishum2000
30. The central purpose of management is for making every action or decision help achieve a carefully chosen goal.

My answer was C (achieve->achieving), but the correct one was A. Should I use to make instead of for making ?

Anyway the sentence sounds weird to me.I mean I can't find its sense.

34. The discovery of the antibiotic penicillin in 1928 has not produced antibiotics useful for the treatment of infectious diseases until 1940.

My answer was C (useful->usefully), but the correct one was B. What's wrong with that present perfect here ?

38. Ozone is an unstable faintly bluish gas that is the most chemical active form of oxygen.

My answer was B, but the right one was D. I thought that faint (the adjective should be used here instead of the adverb faintly). Why is the good answer D ? Shouldn't be there an adjective ?
mishum2000,

30.
A -> to make. To paraphrase "Managers are there to make every action achieve defined goals".

34.
I would think B -> did not produce because we are talking about 1940 not today.

38.
D -> chemically. In A faint would apply to gas, not bluish (although by altering the sentence a bit we could use faint blue).

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