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1 {Originally developed for detecting air pollutants, a technique called proton-induced x-ray emission, which can quickly analyze the chemical elements in almost any substance without destroying it, is finding uses in medicine, archaeology, and criminology.

	(A) Originally developed for detecting air pollutants, a technique called proton-induced x-ray
	(B) Originally developed for detecting air pollutants, having the ability to analyze the chemical
	(C) A technique originally developed for detecting air pollutants, called proton-induced x-ray
	(D) A technique originally developed for detecting air pollutants, called proton-induced x-ray
	(E) A technique that was originally developed for detecting air pollutants and has the ability to analyze the chemical elements in almost any substance quickly and without destroying the

2 None of the attempts to specify the causes of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed have.

	(A) have
	(B) has
	(C) shall
	(D) do
	(E) could

3 Computers are becoming faster, more powerful, and more reliable, and so too are modems, they are the devices to allow two or more computers to share information over regular telephone lines.

	(A) so too are modems, they are the devices to allow
	(B) so too are modems, the devices that allow
	(C) so too modems, the devices allowing
	(D) also modems, they are the devices that allow
	(E) also modems, which are the devices to allow

4 A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

	(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
	(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
	(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump
	(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump
	(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

5 Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.

	(A) in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help
	(B) in healing physical and mental ills and to thank her for helping
	(C) in healing physical and mental ills, and thanking her for helping
	(D) to heal physical and mental ills or to thank her for such help
	(E) to heal physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help

6 A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed.

	(A) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their
	(B) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one once their horns are
	(C) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals' horns have been
	(D) if tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses once the animals' horns are
	(E) if tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one after the animals' horns have been

7 The technical term "pagination" is a process that leaves editors, instead of printers, assemble the page images that become the metal or plastic plates used in printing.

	(A) is a process that leaves editors, instead of printers, assemble
	(B) refers to a process that allows editors, rather than printers, to assemble
	(C) is a process leaving the editors, rather than printers, to assemble
	(D) refers to a process which allows editors, but not to printers, the assembly of
	(E) has reference to the process leaving to editors, instead of the printer, assembling

8 The black hole has entered the popular imagination as an object too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its gravitational pull.

	(A) too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its
	(B) too massive for either allowing light or matter to escape its
	(C) massive enough that either light or matter cannot escape their
	(D) so massive that neither light nor matter could escape their
	(E) so massive that neither light nor matter can escape its

9 After crude oil, natural gas is the United States second biggest fuel source and supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.

	(A) After crude oil, natural gas is the United States second biggest fuel source and supplied almost
	(B) Natural gas, after crude oil the United States second biggest fuel source, supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.
	(C) Being supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America, natural gas, the United States second biggest fuel source after crude oil.
	(D) Natural gas, the United States' second biggest fuel source after crude oil, is supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.
	(E) Natural gas is supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America, being the United

10 The airline industry is cutting its lowest discount fares more widely, more substantially, and earlier this year than it normally does at the end of the summer, a time during which travel usually decreases and the industry uses some lower fares for the attraction of passengers.

	(A) during which travel usually decreases and the industry uses some lower fares for the attraction of
	(B) during which travel usually decreases and therefore the industry will use some lower fares for the attraction of
	(C) in which travel usually decreases and in which the industry therefore uses some lower fares
	(D) when travel usually decreases and the industry uses some lower fares to attract
	(E) when travel usually decreases and therefore the industry will use lower fares for the attraction of

11 The aristocratic values expressed in the writings of Marguerite Yourcenar place her within the French classical tradition, as does her passionate interest in history, particularly Roman history.

	(A) as does
	(B) so do
	(C) as do
	(D) so is the case with
	(E) similarly, does

12 Selling several hundred thousand copies in six months, the publication of "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 was an instant hit, helping to establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime composer.

	(A) Selling several hundred thousand copies in six months, the publication of "Maple Leaf Rag"
	(B) The publication in 1899 of "Maple Leaf Rag" was an instant hit: in six months they sold several hundred thousand copies and it helped establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime composer.
	(C) Helping to establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime composer was the publication of
	(D) "Maple Leaf Rag" was an instant hit: it helped establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime
	(E) Published in 1899, "Maple Leaf Rag" was an instant hit, selling several hundred thousand copies in six months: it helped establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime composer.

13 Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

	(A) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.
	(B) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component in municipal trash, many
	(C) Because paper of all kinds are the biggest single components in municipal trash, many
	(D) All kinds of paper are the biggest single components of municipal trash, and so many
	(E) All kinds of paper is the biggest single component of municipal trash, so many municipalities

14 As rare as something becomes, be it a baseball card or a musical recording or a postage stamp, the more avidly it is sought by collectors .

	(A) As rare as something becomes, be it
	(B) As rare as something becomes, whether it is
	(C) As something becomes rarer and rarer, like
	(D) The rarer something becomes, like
	(E) The rarer something becomes, whether it is

15 Psychologists now contend that the way adults think and feel are determined as much by their peers in early childhood than by their parents.

	(A) are determined as much by their peers in early childhood than by their
	(B) are determined as much by peers in early childhood as do their
	(C) is determined as much by their early childhood peers as by their
	(D) have been determined by childhood peers as much as their
	(E) was determined as much by one's peers in childhood as by one's

16 Migraine, the most debilitating common form of headache, afflicts perhaps 18 million Americans, who collectively lose 64 million workdays a year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost work time.

	(A) year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost
	(B) year and thus cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost
	(C) year, so as to cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost
	(D) year that costs the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and
	(E) year, which thus cost the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and

17 Like many others of his generation of Native American leaders, Joseph Brant lived in two worlds; born into an Iroquois community and instructed in traditional Iroquois ways, he also received an education from English-speaking teachers.

	(A) Like many others of his generation of Native American leaders, Joseph Brant lived in two worlds;
	(B) Like many others of his generation of Native American leaders, living in two worlds, Joseph
	(C) Like many another of his generation of Native American leaders, Joseph Brant, living in two
	(D) As with many others of his generation of Native American leaders, living in two worlds, Joseph Brant was
	(E) As with many another of his generation of Native American leaders, Joseph Brant lived in

18 Sales of United States manufactured goods to nonindustrialized countries rose to $167 billion in 1992, which is 14 percent more than the previous year and largely offsets weak demand from Europe and Japan.

	(A) which is 14 percent more than the previous year
	(B) which is 14 percent higher than it was the previous year
	(C) 14 percent higher than the previous year's figure
	(D) an amount that is 14 percent more than the previous year was
	(E) an amount that is 14 percent higher than the previous year's figure

19 All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

	(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
	(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
	(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
	(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
	(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

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