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Chilean novelist and short-story writer María Luisa Bombal wrote innovative and influential stories featuring heroines which create fantasy worlds in order to escape from unfulfilling love relationships and restricted social roles.
(A) heroines which create
(B) heroines, they create
(C) heroines, they created
(D) heroines who create
(E) heroines that were creating
答案：D
解析：Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the pronoun error of the original by using an appropriate relative pronoun (“who”) to refer to people (“heroines”).
92
Illiteracy is an enormous (A)problem, it (B)affects millions of people (C)worldwide and is an (D)impediment to social progress. (E)No error.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
答案：A
解析：This is an example of a type of error known as comma splice. You cannot use a comma to link two complete sentences: use a semicolon.
93
The union (A)insisted on an increase in (B)their (C)members’ starting pay, and threatened to call a strike if the company refused (D)to meet the demand. (E)No error.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
答案：B
解析：Change “their” to “its” because the union is a singular noun.
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It is thought that a dog’s sense of smell is generally 10,000 to 100,000 times better than humans.
(A) humans
(B) humans’ are
(C) humans have
(D) a human’s
(E) a human has
答案：D
解析：Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by properly comparing “a dog’s sense of smell” to “a human’s” sense of smell.
95
They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions can be found only in Gir, a forest region in northwest India.
(A) They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions
(B) Its counterparts in Africa are bigger, but the Asiatic lion
(C) The Asiatic lion is smaller than their counterparts in Africa, they
(D) The counterparts of African lions in Asia are smaller, although they
(E) Smaller than their counterparts in Africa, Asiatic lions
答案：E
解析：Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the faulty logic of the original by removing the unnecessary pronoun “They” and the conjunction “so” so that the size of the two types of lions is the only thing being compared.
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The first public botanical garden in the United States, the Elgin Botanic Garden in New York City was established to provide plant materials for studying by medical students.
(A) for studying by medical students
(B) for medical students to study
(C) to medical students for their study
(D) for the study of medical students
(E) that medical students will study
答案：B
解析：Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by replacing the awkward and imprecise “for studying by medical students” with “for medical students to study.”
97
Their part of the reconstruction process that followed the Second World War, the nations of Western Europe took steps toward achieving greater political and economic integration.
(A) Their
(B) The
(C) It was
(D) As
(E) On
答案：D
解析：Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the preposition “As” to indicate what the “steps toward … integration” were a part of.
98
The main tennis stadium of the US Open, named after the African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe and located in New York City, who won the first ever US Open men's singles title in 1968.
(A) named after the African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe and located in New York City
(B) located in New York City and named after the African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe
(C) which is named after the African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe and is located in New York City
(D) located in New York City, is named after the African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe
(E) being located in New York City and having been named after the African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe
答案：D
解析：Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the sentence fragment of the original by providing the main verb “is” to carry out the action of the sentence. In addition, it places the proper noun “Arthur Ashe” directly before the relative clause that modifies it, “who won the first ever US Open men's singles title in 1968.”
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Combining both figurative and abstract elements in his paintings, such painters as Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn were greatly influenced by American artist Willem de Kooning, a key figure in the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement.
(A) such painters as Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn were greatly influenced by American artist Willem de Kooning, a key figure in the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement
(B) a key figure in the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement who greatly influenced such painters as Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn was American artist Willem de Kooning
(C) American artist Willem de Kooning became a key figure in the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement and greatly influenced such painters as Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn
(D) Willem de Kooning, an American artist who became a key figure in the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement and greatly influenced such painters as Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn
(E) and a key figure in the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement, Willem de Kooning greatly influenced such painters as Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn as an American artist
答案：C
解析：Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the modification error of the original by placing the subject of the sentence, “American artist Willem de Kooning” directly after the modifying phrase “Combining both figurative and abstract elements in his paintings.”
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In order to (A)prepare for the speech he (B)was given to all of the parents and teachers at the school, George practiced speaking (C)in front of a group of (D)his friends. (E)No error
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
答案：B
解析：The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is an inappropriate verb form. It does not make sense to say that George would prepare for a speech that “he was given” (that was given to him). Instead, “he was to give” is needed.