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1 {Foreign investors, because of their growing confidence in their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, have been led to move from passive involvement in commercial real estate partnerships to active development of their own increasingly ambitious projects.

	(A) Foreign investors, because of their growing confidence in their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, have been led
	(B) Foreign investors, growing confident about their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, has led them
	(C) Growing confidence in their ability to make profitable investments in the United States has led foreign investors
	(D) Growing confidence in their ability for making profitable investments in the United States have led foreign investors
	(E) Growing confident about their capabilities for making profitable investments in the United States, foreign investors have been led

2 Local residents claim that San Antonio, Texas, has more good Mexican American restaurants than any city does in the United States.

	(A) any city does
	(B) does any other city
	(C) other cities do
	(D) any city
	(E) other cities

3 If the new airboat does what it is to be doing-travel at high speeds undeterred by sandbars, crocodile-infested mudflats, or marshy hippo haunts-it could revolutionize transport on the 2,900-mile-long Congo River.

	(A) If the new airboat does what it is to be doing
	(B) If the new airboat does what it is supposed to do
	(C) If it does as the new airboat is supposed to do
	(D) Doing what it is the new airboat is supposed to do
	(E) Doing what the new airboat is to be doing

4 The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.

	(A) subsidiary, which it plans to use money from
	(B) subsidiary, from which it plans to use money
	(C) subsidiary, and it plans the use of money from that
	(D) subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale
	(E) subsidiary and plans the use of money from that sale

5 In the 1980's the rate of increase of the minority population of the United States was nearly twice as fast as the 1970's.

	(A) twice as fast as
	(B) twice as fast as it was in
	(C) twice what it was in
	(D) two times faster than that of
	(E) two times greater than

6 The figure of the jaguar, being a recurring symbol within Olmec art, is prominent among the hieroglyphics inscribed on a monument that was discovered in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

	(A) being a recurring symbol within
	(B) a symbol having recurred within
	(C) a recurring symbol in
	(D) having been a symbol that recurred in
	(E) recurring as it is, a symbol in

7 As the etched lines on computer memory chips have become thinner and the chips' circuits more complex, both the power of the chips and the electronic devices they drive have vastly increased.

	(A) the chips' circuits more complex, both the power of the chips and the electronic devices they drive have
	(B) the chips' circuits more complex, the power of both the chips and the electronic devices they drive has
	(C) the chips' circuits are more complex, both the power of the chips and the electronic devices they drive has
	(D) their circuits are more complex, the power of both the chips and the electronic devices they drive have
	(E) their circuits more complex, both the power of the chips and the electronic devices they drive have

8 Since savings banks have to use short-term deposits to finance long-term fixed-rate mortgage loans, they sometimes lose money when there is a rise in short-term rates and, on the other hand, they are unable to raise the rates on their mortgages.

	(A) when there is a rise in short-term rates and, on the other hand, they are unable to raise
	(B) when short-term rates rise and they are unable to raise
	(C) when a rise in short-term rates occurs and, correspondingly, there is no rise possible in
	(D) with a rise in short-term rates, and they are unable to raise
	(E) with short-term rates on the rise and no rise possible in

9 St. John's, Newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as Paris, France, but in spring St. John's residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes than to be bracing themselves against arctic chills, shoveling snow, or seeking shelter from a raging northeast storm.

	(A) residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes than to be bracing themselves against arctic chills, shoveling snow, or seeking
	(B) residents are less likely to sit at outdoor cafes, and more to brace themselves against arctic chills, shovel snow, or be seeking
	(C) residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes, and more likely to be bracing themselves against arctic chills, shoveling snow, or to be seeking
	(D) residents, instead of their sitting at outdoor cafes, they are more likely to brace themselves against arctic chills, shovel snow, or seek
	(E) residents, instead of sitting at outdoor cafes, are more likely to brace themselves against arctic chills, shovel snow, or to be seeking

10 Unlike other arachnids, which have their nerve cells evenly distributed along their bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's.

	(A) bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's
	(B) bodies, the scorpion's head had a cluster of nerve cells, as a mammal does
	(C) body, the scorpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does
	(D) body, nerve cells are clustered in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's
	(E) body, a cluster of nerve cells is in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's

11 Clark and Florence Wallace, a husband-and-wife medical team, worked steadily and efficiently through the night, but sipping their coffee the next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented.

	(A) sipping their coffee the next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented
	(B) sipping their coffee the next morning, he seemed to be disoriented, she noticed
	(C) as they sipped their coffee the next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented
	(D) as they were sipping their coffee the next morning, he seemed, she noticed, disoriented
	(E) he seemed disoriented, she noticed, sipping their coffee the next morning

12 Very popular from 1900 until the 1920's, the renewed interest in ceiling fans began when the energy crisis in 1974 forced homeowners to look for alternative methods of heating and cooling.

	(A) Very popular from 1900 until the 1920's, the renewed interest in ceiling fans began
	(B) The renewed interest in ceiling fans, which were very popular from 1900 until the 1920's began
	(C) After they were very popular from 1900 until the 1920's, the renewed interest in ceiling fans was beginning
	(D) Ceiling fans were very popular from 1900 until the 1920's, with renewed interest beginning in them
	(E) From 1900 until the 1920's ceiling fans were very popular, and now the renewed interest in them has begun

13 There is speculation that increasing cold weather was what may have been responsible for the Anasazi move from Mesa Verde to sites in other canyons.

	(A) that increasing cold weather was what may have been
	(B) whether increasing cold weather was what was
	(C) that increasingly cold weather was what had been
	(D) whether increasingly cold weather may have been what was
	(E) that increasingly cold weather may have been

14 In Aristophanes' Lysistrata women are seen as the means of bringing peace and good sense to a war torn world.

	(A) as
	(B) as if they are
	(C) that they will be
	(D) that they are
	(E) for being

15 Despite no proof that the consumption of any particular foods reverse hardening of the arteries, studies indicate that refraining from eating certain foods could help reverse blockage of coronary arteries, the blood vessels that feed the heart.

	(A) Despite no proof that the consumption of any particular foods reverse hardening of the arteries, studies indicate that refraining from eating certain foods could
	(B) Despite no foods having been proved to reverse hardening of the arteries when consumed, studies indicate that refraining from eating certain foods can
	(C) Although the consumption of no particular foods have been proved to reverse hardening of the arteries, studies indicate that to refrain from eating certain foods could
	(D) Although not proved that the consumption of any foods reverse hardening of the arteries, studies indicate that refraining from eating certain foods can
	(E) Although it has not been proved that the consumption of any particular food will reverse hardening of the arteries, studies indicate that refraining from eating certain foods can

16 Artificial intelligence emerged during the late 1950's as an academic discipline based on the assumption that computers are able to be programmed to think like people.

	(A) are able to be programmed to think like people
	(B) were able to be programmed to think as people
	(C) can be programmed to think as people can
	(D) could be programmed to think like people
	(E) are capable of being programmed to think like people do

17 Although the coordination of monetary policy can help facilitate the orderly financing of existing imbalances, it is unlikely that its effect on their size is significant in the absence of an appropriate fiscal adjustment.

	(A) it is unlikely that its effect on their size is significant
	(B) it is unlikely that the size of their effect would be significant
	(C) affecting their sizes are not likely to be significant
	(D) the significance of their effect on its size is unlikely
	(E) its effect on their size is not likely to be significant

18 The proposed health care bill would increase government regulation of health insurance, establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who otherwise could be uncovered for months.

	(A) establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who
	(B) establishing standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who are changing jobs and
	(C) to establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who change jobs that
	(D) for establishing standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers changing jobs who
	(E) for the establishment of standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers who are changing jobs that

19 Many writers of modern English have acquired careless habits that damage the clarity of their prose, but these habits can be broken if they are willing to take the necessary trouble.

	(A) but these habits can be broken
	(B) but these habits are breakable
	(C) but they can break these habits
	(D) which can be broken
	(E) except that can be broken

20 While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made in nonsalary compensation, as in allowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

	(A) cuts were made in nonsalary compensation, as in
	(B) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as
	(C) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as those in
	(D) cuts in nonsalary compensation were made in areas like
	(E) there were cuts made in nonsalary compensation, in areas like

21 It is an oversimplified view of cattle raising to say that all one has to do with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves, corral them, and to drive them to market when the time is ripe.

	(A) all one has to do with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves, corral them, and to
	(B) all one has to do with cattle is to leave them alone to feed themselves, to corral them, and
	(C) all one has to do with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves and then corral them and
	(D) the only thing that has to be done with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves, corral them, and
	(E) the only thing that has to be done with cattle is to leave them alone while they feed themselves, to corral them, and

22 Although dozens of New York's small museums are either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, there are many one-of-a-kind museums from Manhattan to the Bronx that are open for exploration on summer weekends.

	(A) Although dozens of New York's small museums are either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, there are
	(B) Although dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups
	(C) Dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, but there are
	(D) Dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, and there are also
	(E) Devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, dozens of New York's small museums and also

23 Oberlin College in Ohio was a renegade institution at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept both men and women as students.

	(A) at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept
	(B) for the decision at its 1833 founding to accept
	(C) when it was founded in 1833 for its decision to accept
	(D) in deciding at its founding in 1833 to accept
	(E) by deciding at its founding in 1833 on the acceptance of

24 Unlike a hurricane, which can be observed from within, a tornado is so small that such a study has not been practical.

	(A) that such a study has not been practical
	(B) that studying it that way has not been impractical
	(C) for such studies as this to have been impractical
	(D) as to not make such a study practical
	(E) as to be impractical of study

25 After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.

	(A) After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but
	(B) Even though children's life expectancy, which improved over the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate,
	(C) Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, during which the mortality rate was 50 percent,
	(D) While there was an improvement in life expectancy for children after the 50 percent mortality rate of the Colonial period, still
	(E) Despite children's life expectancy improvement from the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate,

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