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　　26. Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in

　　climate is maybe the more difficult for analysis.

　　(A) is maybe the more difficult for analysis

　　(B) is probably the most difficult to analyze

　　(D) is probably the more difficult to analyze

　　(E) is, it may be, the analysis that is most difficult

　　27. Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler Owen j

　　and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

　　(A) Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler

　　Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

　　(B) Published in Harlem, two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later

　　make his reputation as a labor leader, were the owner and editor of the Messenger.

　　Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and Chandler Owen.

　　(D) The Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip

　　Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and published in Harlem.

　　(E) The owner and editor being two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would

　　later make his reputation as a labor leader, the Messenger was published in Harlem. 28. The rise in the Commerce Department's index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy

　　should continue its expansion into the coming months. but that the mixed performance of the index's individual

　　components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first

　　quarter of this year.

　　(A) suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that

　　(B) suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months, but

　　(D) suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months, but that

　　(E) suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months, but

　　29. In three centuries--from 1050 to 1350--several million tons of stone were quarried in France for the building

　　of eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some tens of thousands of parish churches.

　　(A) for the building of eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

　　(B) in order that they might build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

　　(D) so that there could be built eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and

　　(E) such that they could build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and

　　30. What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc has been the use of the new technology to

　　revitalize, in better sound than was ever before possible, some of the classic recorded performances of the

　　pre-LP era.

　　(A) What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc

　　(B) The thing that was as remarkable as developing the compact disc

　　(D) Developing the compact disc has been none the less remarkable than

　　(E) Development of the compact disc has been no less remarkable as

　　Answer to Question 26

　　Choice B is the best answer. The sentence compares one thing, an adverse change in climate, to all other

　　things in its class-- that is, to all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, therefore, the

　　sentence requires the superlative form of the adjective, most difficult, rather than the comparative form, more

　　difficult, which appears in choices A and D. In A and C, the use of maybe is unidiomatic, and difficult should be

　　completed by the infinitive to analyze. Choice E is awkwardly phrased and, when inserted into the sentence,

　　produces an illogical structure: the possibility ... is... the analysis that.

　　Answer to Question 27

　　Choices A and B present dangling modifiers that illogically suggest that Owen and Randolph, rather than the

　　Messenger, were published in Harlem. In D, the phrase and published in Harlem is too remote from the

　　Messenger to modify it effectively. In E, being produces an awkward construction, and the placement of the

　　main clause at the end of the sentence is confusing. Only in C, the best answer, is Published in Harlem

　　followed immediately by the Messenger. Also, C makes it clear that the clause beginning who refers to

　　Randolph.

　　Answer to Question 28

　　In choices A and B, the verb suggest does not agree with its singular subject, rise. In context, the phrase into

　　the coming months in A and D is not idiomatic; in the coming months is preferable. In A, C, and D, the that

　　appearing after but creates a subordinate clause where an independent clause is needed for the new subject,

　　mixed performance. Choice E includes the correct verb form, suggests, eliminates that, and properly employs

　　the future tense, will continue to expand. That this tense is called for is indicated both by the future time to

　　which the coming months refers and by the parallel verb form will proceed in the nonunderlined part of the sentence. Choice E is best.

　　Answer to Question 29

　　Choice A is best. The other choices are unidiomatic or unnecessarily wordy, and the pronoun they, which

　　appears in B, C, and E, has no grammatical referent.

　　Answer to Question 30

　　Besides being wordy, the clauses beginning What was in A and The thing that was in B cause inconsistencies

　　in verb tense: the use of the new technology cannot logically be described by both the present perfect has

　　been and the past was. In B and D, developing the compact disc is not parallel to the use of new

　　technology to revitalize ... performances; in C, the best answer, the noun development is parallel to use.

　　The phrases none the less ... than in D and no less... as in E are unidiomatic; the correct form of expression,

　　no less ... than, appears in C, the best choice.