GMAT句子改错讲义(5)

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16. The most common reasons for an employee’s unwillingness to accept a transfer are that mortgage rates are high, housing in the new location costs more, and the difficulty of selling the old home.(O.P.315)

A) that mortgage rates are high, housing in the new location costs more, and the difficulty of selling the old home

B) that mortgage rates are high, housing in the new location costs more, and that it is difficult of sell the old home

C) high mortgage rates, the greater cost of housing in the new location, and that the old home is difficult to sell

D) high mortgage rates, the greater cost of housing in the new location, and it is difficult to sell the old home

E) high mortgage rates, the greater cost of housing in the new location, and the difficulty of selling the old home

17. A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves exercise and associated with other calve, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do those raised in confinement. (O.P.323)

A) associated with other calve, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do

B) associated with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight quicker than

C) associate with other calves, they required less medication and will gain weight quicker than do

D) associate with other calves, they have required less medication and will gain weight more quickly than do

E) associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than

18.Displays of the aurora borealis, or “ northern lights,” can heat the at mosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines.(O.P.328)

A) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce

B) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induce

C) that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces

D) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected and induces

E) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce

19.Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.(O.P. 330)

A) water as a

B) water as to a

C) water. just as it would to a

D) water, as it would to the

E) water. just as to the

20. Geologists believe that the warning signs for a major earthquake may include sudden fluctuation in local seismic activity, tilting and other deformations of the Earth’s crust , changing the measured strain across a fault zone, and varying the electrical properties of underground rocks. (O.P.326)

A) changing the measured strain across a fault zone, and varying

B) changing measurements fo the strain across a fault zone, and varying

C) changing the strain as measured across a fault zone, and variations of

D) changes in the measured strain across a fault zone, and variations in

E) changes in measurements of the strain across a fault zone, and variations among

21. Some analysts contend that true capitalism exists only when the ownership of both property and the means of production is regarded as an inalienable right of an individual’s, and it is not a license granted by government and revocable at whim. (O.P. 327)

A) is regarded as an inalienable right of an individual’s, and it is not

B) are regarded as individuals’ inalienable rights, and that it not be

C) is regarded as an individual’s inalienable right, not as

D) are regarded as an individual’s inalienable rights, not when they are

E) is regarded as the inalienable rights of an individual, not when it is

22. Europe’s travel industry is suffering as a result of a sluggish economy, a stretch of bad weather, as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that is persistent.( Z.P.91)

A) as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that is persistent

B) and the chilling effect of terrorist activity that is persistent

C) but persistent terrorist activity has had a chilling effect too

D) and the chilling effects of persistent terrorist activity

E) as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that persists

23. It is a special feature of cell aggregation if the developing nervous system that in most regions of the brain the cells not only adhere to one another and also adopt some preferential orientation. (Z.P.100)

A) to one another and also adopt

B) one to the other, and also they adopt

C) one to the other , but also adopting

D) to one another but also adopt

E) to each other , also adopting

24. Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land , the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.(Z.P.101)

A) basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California

B) basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California

C) basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California

D) a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California

E) a marketing and distribution system importing produce from Florida and California as its base

25. Satre believed each individual is responsible to choose one course of action over another one, that it is the choice that gives value to the act, and that nothing that is not acted upon has value. ( Z.P.107)

A) each individual is responsible to choose one course of action over another one

B) that each individual is responsible for choosing one course of action over another

C) that each individual is responsible, choosing one course of action over the other

D) that each individual is responsible to choose one course of action over the other

E) each individual is responsible for choosing one course of action over other ones

26. While he owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling, owners of cooperative apartments have shares in a corporation that owns a building and leases apartments to them. ( Z.P.107)

A) While he owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling

B) The owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling, but

C) Whereas owners of condominium apartments have free and clear title to their dwellings,

D) An owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling, whereas

E) Condominium apartment owners have a title to their dwelling that is free and clear, while

27. A fire in an enclose space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading mire quickly. (Z.P.111)

A) flames spreading

B) flames spreads

C) flames are caused to spread

D) causing flames to spread

E) causing spreading of the flames

28. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburb an houses including communal eating and social facilities.(Z.P.115)

A) including communal eating and social facilities

B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities

E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

29. The lawyer for the defense charged that she suspected the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversation with her client and then used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges . (Z.P.118)

A) used the information obtained to find evidence supporting

B) used such information as they obtained to find evidence supporting

C) used the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support

D) of using the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support

E) of using such information as they obtained to find evidence hat would be supportive of