16. Unlike a typical automobile loan, which requires a fifteen- to twenty-percent down payment, the lease-loan
buyer is not required to make an initial deposit on the new vehicle.
(A) the lease-loan buyer is not required to make
(B) with lease-loan buying there is no requirement of
(C) lease-loan buyers are not required to make
(D) for the lease-loan buyer there is no requirement of
(E) a lease-loan does not require the buyer to make
17. Native American burial sites dating back 5,000 years indicate that the residents of Maine at that time were
part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people.
(A) were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people
(B) had been part of a widespread culture of people who were Algonquian-speaking
(C) were people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking
(D) had been people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking
(E) were a people which had been part of a widespread, Algonquian-speaking culture
18. Each of Hemingway's wives--Hadley Richardson. Pauline Pfeiffer. Martha Gelhom. and Mary Welsh --were
strong and interesting women, very different from the often pallid women who populate his novels.
(A) Each of Hemingway's wives--Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary
Welsh--were strong and interesting women,
(B) Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh--each of them Hemingway's
wives--were strong and, interesting women,
(C) Hemingway's wives--Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary Welsh--were all
strong and interesting women,
(D) Strong and interesting women—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary
Welsh--each a wife of Hemingway, was
(E) Strong and interesting women—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhom, and Mary
Welsh--every one of Hemingway's wives were
19. In addition to having more protein -than wheat does, the protein in rice is higher quality than that in wheat,
with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet.
(A) the protein in rice is higher quality than that in
(B) rice has protein of higher quality than that in
(C) the protein in rice is higher in quality than it is in
(D) rice protein is higher in quality than it is in
(E) rice has a protein higher in quality than
20. An array of tax incentives has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant has
capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build.
(A) so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that
(B) capital has been so abundant for commercial real estate, so that
(C) the abundance of capital for commercial real estate has been such,
(D) such has the abundance of capital been for commercial real estate that
(E) such has been an abundance of capital for commercial real estate,
Answer to Question 16
Choice E, the best answer, correctly uses a parallel construction to draw a logical comparison: Unlike a typical
automobile loan,... a lease-loan.... Choice A illogically compares an automobile loan, an inanimate thing, with
a lease-loan buyer, a person. In choice C, buyers makes the comparison inconsistent in number as well as
illogical. Choices B and D are syntactically and logically flawed because each attempts to compare the noun
loan and a prepositional phrase: with lease-loan buying in B and/or the lease-loan buyer in D. Choices B and
D are also imprecise and awkward. Finally, choice E is the only option that supplies an active verb form, does
not require, to parallel requires.
Answer to Question 17
Choice A is best because it correctly uses the simple past tense, the residents... at that time were, and
because it is the most concise. In B and D, the replacement of were with the past perfect had been needlessly
changes the original meaning by suggesting that the Native Americans had previously ceased to be part of the
widespread culture. All of the choices but A are wordy, and in C, D, and E the word people redundantly
describes the residents rather than the larger group to which the residents belonged. These choices are also
imprecise because they state that the culture, rather than people, spoke the Algonquian language. Choice E
displays inconsistent tenses and an error of pronoun reference, people which.
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Answer to Question 18
Each choice but C contains errors of agreement. In both A and E, the singular subject (each in A, every one in E)
does not agree with the plural verb were, while in D, the plural subject women is mismatched with the singular
verb was. In B, the subject and verb agree, but the descriptive phrase placed between them creates an illogical
statement because each cannot be wives; each can be one of the wives, or a wife. The pronoun constructions
in A, B, D, and E are wordy; also, B, D, and E are very awkwardly structured and do not convey the point about
Hemingway's wives clearly. Choice C correctly links wives with were, eliminates the unnecessary pronouns,
and provides a clearer structure.
Answer to Question 19
In this sentence, the initial clause modifies the nearest noun, identifying it as the thing being compared with
wheat. By making protein the noun modified, choices A, C, and D illogically compare wheat with protein and
claim that the protein in rice has more protein than wheat does. In C and D, the comparative structure higher in
quality than it is in wheat absurdly suggests that rice protein contains wheat. B, the best choice, logically
compares wheat to rice by placing the noun rice immediately after the initial clause. B also uses that to refer to
protein in making the comparison between the proteins of rice and wheat. Choice E needs either that in or
does after wheat to make a complete and logical comparison.
Answer to Question 20
Choice A is best. The construction so abundant has capital been... that correctly and clearly expresses the
relationship between the abundance and the investors' response. In choice B, the repetition of so is illogical and
unidiomatic. Choices C, D, and E alter somewhat the intended meaning of the sentence; because of its position
in these statements, such functions to mean "of a kind" rather than to intensify abundant. Choice D awkwardly
separates has and been, and the omission of that from C and E makes those choices ungrammatical.
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