SC Test 2: 25 Questions

Time-30 minutes

25 Questions

1. Along with his being the chief legal adviser to the President, the attorney general administers a department of nearly 50,000 employees.

(A) Along with his
(B) At the same time as
(C) In addition to
(D) Beside him
(E) Also

2. Jason was one of those men who spend most of their time gossiping with friends, finding fault with business associates, or he complains about politics.

(A) he complains
(B) they complain
(C) in complaining
(D) in finding complaints
(E) complaining

3. Harrison Brown proposed that the objects in the solar system could be divided into three classes with respect to its density and chemical composition.

(A) with respect to its density and chemical composition
(B) due to the primary factors of density and chemical composition
(C) for the reason that density and chemical composition played a primary role
(D) according to their density and chemical composition
(E) by virtue of their density and chemical composition being the primary factors

4. Publishing in 1829. the evils of slavery were publicly condemned by George Moses Horton who was the first black poet to do so.

(A) Publishing in 1829, the evils of slavery were publicly condemned by George Moses Horton who was the first black poet to do so.
(B) George Moses Horton, whose work was published in 1829, was the first black poet to condemn publicly the evils of slavery.
(C) George Moses Horton, publishing in 1829, condemned the evils of slavery publicly and was the first black poet to do that.
(D) Publicly condemning the evils of slavery, George Moses Horton was the first black poet to do so and he was published in 1829.
(E) George Moses Horton, who was published in 1829, was the first black poet who publicly has condemned the evils of slavery.

5. “The Origin of Species” precipitated widespread polarization among the general public in Europe and America, separating those who insisted on the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis as a historical account from those who regarded Genesis as a poetic legend.

A) from those
(B) from them
(C) and them
(D) between those
(E) among those

6. The carpenter ant does not eat wood; they merely tunnel into beams and hollow out a nesting place.

(A) they merely tunnel into beams and hollow out
(B) it merely tunnels into beams and hollows out
(C) some merely tunnel into beams and hollow out
(D) their tunneling and hollowing out of beams merely makes
(E) by the tunneling into beams, they merely hollow out

7. If parents force a child to study books that are too difficult for them, they will not only fall behind in school but will also be unhappy.

(A) too difficult for them, they will not only fall behind in school but will also be unhappy
(B) too difficult for him, they not only will fall behind in school and also be unhappy
(C) too difficult for him, he will not only fall behind in school but will also be unhappy
(D) of too great a difficulty, he will not only fall behind in school but he will be unhappy too
(E) of too much difficulty, not only will he fall behind in school but he will be unhappy as well

8. Like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke did, John Dennis also stressed the importance of judgment as a control over the imagination.

(A) Like Thomas Hobbes and john Locke did, John Dennis also stressed the importance of judgment as a control over the imagination.
(B) As Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, John Dennis stressed how important judgment is to control the imagination.
(C) John Dennis stressed the importance judgment has to control the imagination, like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
(D) The importance of judgment as a control over the imagination was stressed by john Dennis, thus making him like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
(E) Like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, john Dennis stressed the importance of judgment as a control over the imagination.

9. The women enrolled in the judo course in order to learn ways to protect oneself from an experienced instructor.

(A) learn ways to protect oneself from an experienced instructor
(B) learn ways to protect herself from an experienced instructor
(C) learn ways of protecting themselves from an experienced instructor
(D) learn, from an experienced instructor, ways to protect themselves
(E) learn, from an experienced instructor, in what way to protect oneself

10. If the claims of coastal nations to 200-mile territorial seas were accepted on a worldwide basis, more than thirty per cent of the world’s ocean area would come under the jurisdiction of one or other national states.

(A) one or other national states
(B) one or another national state
(C) one or the other national state
(D) some or another of the national states
(E) each and every national state

11. Many senior senators have created large staffs by means of their committee positions, while junior senators who want to be more active are forced to limp along with less aides than they need.

(A) while junior senators who want to be more active are forced to limp along with less aides than they need
(B) at the same time junior senators who want to be more active are forced to limp along with less aides than are necessary
(C) and junior senators who want to be more active are forced to limp along with less than the necessary number of aides
(D) while junior senators who want to be more active are forced to limp along with fewer aides than they need
(F) but junior senators who want to be more active are forced to limp along with their fewer than needed aides

12. Thoreau finds the behavior of warring ants analogous with that in warring humans.

(A) the behavior of warring ants analogous with that in warring humans
(B) that the behavior of warring ants is analogous to that with warring humans
(C) the behavior of warring ants analogous to that of warring humans
(D) the behavior of warring ants to be analogous to warring human beings
(E) that warring ants and warring humans behave in analogous fashion with each other

13. These days if you want to know what Lenny Bruce had to say, one purchases “The Essential Lenny Bruce” and reads a sequence of sometimes witty, sometimes tedious pieces printed under such rubrics as “Blacks,” “Jews,” and “The Law.”

(A) one purchases “The Essential Lenny Bruce” and reads
(B) one must purchase and read “The Essential Lenny Bruce,”
(C) he purchases and reads “The Essential Lenny Bruce,” which is
(D) they purchase “The Essential Lenny Bruce” and read
(E) you purchase “The Essential Lenny Bruce” and read

14. Although the income of farmers is expected to be lower this year than last year, their crop yields per acre far surpass last year.

(A) surpass last year
(B) surpasses last year’s
(C) surpasses that of last year’s
(D) surpass those of last year
(E) surpass that which occurred last year

15. Professional baseball contracts have a standard provision, the reserve clause, under which the rights to a player are permanently retained by the team that originally hires him or acquires his contract.

(A) under which
(B) which assures
(C) that assures
(D) for which
(E) that
16. The most conservative Amish groups are not permitted to own cars, use electricity, or power tools.

(A) The most conservative Amish groups are not permitted to own cars, use electricity, or power tools.
(B) The most conservative Amish groups are not permitted the ownership of cars, the use of electricity, or of power tools.
(C) The most conservative Amish groups are not permitted to own cars, use electricity, or operate power tools.
(D) Owning cars, using electricity or power tools is not permitted to the most conservative Amish groups.
(E) Owning cars, electrical use, or operating power tools is not permissible among the most conservative Amish groups.

17. Cartoons in movies or on television often contains a hero or heroine who perform amazing feats in order to help unfortunate victims.

(A) contains a hero or heroine who perform
(B) contain a hero or heroine who perform
(C) contain a hero or heroine who performs
(D) contains a hero or heroine that perform
(E) contain a hero or heroine which performs

18. Natural gas, which, unlike other gases, is clean, easy to distribute, and it combusts readily, gained its popularity because of its low cost and high efficiency.

(A) Natural gas, which, unlike other gases, is clean, easy to distribute, and it combusts readily,
(B) Unlike other gases, natural gas is clean, easy to distribute, and it combusts readily, and therefore
(C) Unlike other gases, natural gas, which is clean, easy to distribute, and it combusts readily,
(D) Natural gas, which, unlike other gases, is clean, easily distributed, and combusts readily,
(E) Natural gas, which, unlike other gases, is clean, easily distributed, and readily combustible

19. People are more irritated by noise that they feel to be unnecessary than when they cause the noise themselves.

(A) than when they cause the noise themselves
(B) than by noise that they themselves cause
(C) than if they cause it themselves
(D) as by noise caused by themselves
(E) as noise they themselves cause

20. Griffith's cameraman Bitzer was a mechanical wizard, and what skill was lacking in his visual composition was more than compensated by his ability to combine gadgets and props to produce the required cinematic effects.

(A) what skill was lacking in his visual composition was more than compensated by
(B) what skills he was lacking in visual composition, he more than compensated for in
(C) whatever his visual composition lacked, he more than compensated in
(D) whatever skills he lacked in visual composition, he more than compensated for by
(E) he more than compensated his lack of visual composition with

21. Jamieson’s proposal was rejected for several reasons, the chief among which was cost.

(A) the chief among which was cost
(B) among which the chief was its cost
(C) the main one was cost
(D) the chief reason of which was its cost
(E) the chief of which was cost

22. Not only do many urban children bring to their schools handicaps resulting from discrimination and economic deprivation, but they also bring an orientation that reflects the effects of oppression on the adults in their families and community.

(A) Not only do many urban children bring to their schools handicaps resulting from discrimination and economic deprivation, but
(B) Many urban children bring to their schools handicaps resulting not only from discrimination and economic deprivation, but
(Cs a shortage of energy, food, and raw materials, with birth rates being higher a shortage of energy, food, and raw materials, with birth rates being higher Many urban children bring to their schools both handicaps resulting from discrimination and economic deprivation, and
(B) Handicaps resulting from discrimination and economic deprivation are brought to the schcols by many urban children and in add it ion
(E) Discrimination and economic deprivation cause many urban children to bring handicaps to their schools, and
23. By studying the differences between real gases and the idealized model of a gas, one has the capacity to make an estimate of the sizes of atoms.

(A) By studying the differences between real gases and the idealized model of a gas, one has the capacity to make an estimate of the sizes of atoms.
(B) By studying the differences between real gases and the idealized model of a gas, an estimate of the sizes of atoms can be made.
(C) Studying the differences between real gases and the idealized model of a gas, the sizes of atoms can be estimated.
(D) By studying the differences between real gases and the idealized model of a gas, one can estimate the sizes of atoms.
(E) Studying the differences between real gases and the idealized model of a gas gives one the capacity of making an estimate of the sizes of atoms.

24. More than any other single element, the increase in art prices has been responsible for the wholesale theft, mutilation, and destruction of art everywhere in the world.

(A) More than any other single element, the increase in art prices has been responsible for
(B) More than any single element, the increase in art prices has caused
(C) More than any other element, the increase in art prices have been responsible for
(D) The increase in art prices, more than any single element, has been the reason for
(E) An increase in the price of art works have been responsible, more than other elements, for

25. More completely adapted for life in the trees than are the other anthropoids, gibbons move with tremendous facility and ease.
(A) More completely adapted for life in the trees than are the other anthropoids,
(B) Adapted more completely for tree life than any of the anthropoids,
(C) Being adapted more completely to tree life than any of the other anthropoids are,
(D) Adapting more completely to life in the trees than the adaptation of the other anthropoids,
(E) Having a more complete adaptation to life in the trees than that possessed by the other anthropoids,

1. C| 2. E| 3. D| 4. B| 5. A| 6. B| 7. C| 8. E| 9. D| 10. B| 11. D| 12. C| 13. E| 14. D| 15. A| 16. C| 17. C| 18. E| 19. B| 20. B| 21. E| 22. A| 23. D| 24. A| 25. A

[a user]

12. Thoreau finds the behavior of warring ants analogous with that in warring humans.

(A) the behavior of warring ants analogous with that in warring humans
(B) that the behavior of warring ants is analogous to that with warring humans
(C) the behavior of warring ants analogous to that of warring humans
(D) the behavior of warring ants to be analogous to warring human beings
(E) that warring ants and warring humans behave in analogous fashion with each other

If you look at the choices, no one is correct.
I think "C" will be correct only if we add a "is" in front of "analogous to" as following:
C) the behavior of warring ants IS analogous to that of warring humans

Would you agree?




Lee Shi

[arti]

If you add "is" then the correct senetence woule be :

Thoreau finds THAT the behavior of warring ants IS analogous to that of warring humans.

Since we do not have "that", it should be

Thoreau finds the behavior of warring ants analogous to that of warring humans.

Thats what i feel.

Thanks


Arti Gupta

[Erin]

Hi, guys! Sorry for my delays in responding; deadlines loomed, then my DSL went down! I'm at home now!

Anyway, find is a bit tricky because it has two different, but closely related meanings, each of which is used in a grammatically different way:

find, meaning discover: find + that + SENTENCE

e.g., I found that the GMAT was not as difficult as I had thought it would be.

This pattern is further complicated because we sometimes omit the that in this sentence. However, the grammar and the meaning are the same since we have a sentence here.

find, meaning something close to believe: find + OBJECT + COMPLEMENT (which describes the object)

e.g., I found the test difficult.

In this pattern, again, we sometimes write it this way:

I found the test to be difficult.

but again, the meaning is the same, even if we don't use these extra words.



HTH!!

[a user]

Thank you Arti and Erin,

Once again, excellent explanation, Erin.



Lee Shi

[rmuppane]

Hi,

For the question below, the answer is B.My answer was C.Can anyone explaing me why my answer was wrong?Is "one or another" an idiom?

10. If the claims of coastal nations to 200-mile territorial seas were accepted on a worldwide basis, more than thirty per cent of the world’s ocean area would come under the jurisdiction of one or other national states.

(A) one or other national states
(B) one or another national state
(C) one or the other national state
(D) some or another of the national states
(E) each and every national state

Thanks.

[Erin]

Hi,

For the question below, the answer is B. My answer was C. Can anyone explaing me why my answer was wrong? Is "one or another" an idiom?

10. If the claims of coastal nations to 200-mile territorial seas were accepted on a worldwide basis, more than thirty per cent of the world’s ocean area would come under the jurisdiction of one or other national states.

(A) one or other national states
(B) one or another national state
(C) one or the other national state
(D) some or another of the national states
(E) each and every national state

Thanks.

Generally, "the other" means "the second one." In other words, we can only use "the other one" when we are talking about only two things, such as our eyes, feet, ears, hands, or legs.

For example, "I have two sisters. One is a doctor, and the other one is an artist."

HTH!!

[ajit_srivastava]

2. Jason was one of those men who spend most of their time gossiping with friends, finding fault with business associates, or he complains about politics.

(A) he complains
(B) they complain
(C) in complaining
(D) in finding complaints
(E) complaining

Correct ans is " E ". Here parallelism is maintained by option E

ajit kumar

[isha]

10. If the claims of coastal nations to 200-mile territorial seas were accepted on a worldwide basis, more than thirty per cent of the world’s ocean area would come under the jurisdiction of one or other national states.
(A) one or other national states
(B) one or another national state
(C) one or the other national state
(D) some or another of the national states
(E) each and every national state

I can understand why a is better than c, but can be choose B ?

Thanks

[isha]

14. Although the income of farmers is expected to be lower this year than last year, their crop yields per acre far (surpass last year).
(A) surpass last year
(B) surpasses last year’s
(C) surpasses that of last year’s
(D) surpass those of last year
(E) surpass that which occurred last year

Correct is D, is yields per acre singular or plural

15. Professional baseball contracts have a standard provision, the reserve clause, (under which) the rights to a player are permanently retained by the team that originally hires him or acquires his contract.
(A) under which
(B) which assures
(C) that assures
(D) for which
(E) that
correct is A can you explain

20. Griffith ‘s cameraman Bitzer was a mechanical wizard, and (what skill was lacking in his visual composition was more than compensated by) his ability to combine gadgets and props to produce the required cinematic effects.
(A) what skill was lacking in his visual composition was more than compensated by
(B) what skills he was lacking in visual composition, he more than compensated for in
(C) whatever his visual composition lacked, he more than compensated in
(D) whatever skills he lacked in visual composition, he more than compensated for by
(E) he more than compensated his lack of visual composition with

Correct is D, why not E.

25. More completely adapted for life in the trees than are the other anthropoids, gibbons move with tremendous facility and ease.
(A) More completely adapted for life in the trees than are the other anthropoids,
(B) Adapted more completely for tree life than any of the anthropoids,
(C) Being adapted more completely to tree life than any of the other anthropoids are,
(D) Adapting more completely to life in the trees than the adaptation of the other anthropoids,
(E) Having a more complete adaptation to life in the trees than that possessed by the other anthropoids,

Correct is A, why not E.
Isn't "than are" in A right