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I had posted these in SC TEST 2; 25 questions, it seems nobody saw them there, so i am posting again

 

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

© 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, what do you think about B ?

 

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

© 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

© 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

© 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,

© 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.

Is "than are" in A right

 

 

 

 

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