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Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - VI

Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - VI

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

During the first nine years of this century, defence manufacturers incurred substantial costs in developing products that, due to a decline in defence budget, never were sold.

  1. defence budget, never were
  2. defence budget, never was
  3. defence budget, was never
  4. defence budget, the products were never
  5. budget, they were never
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

After some experience, apprentice bankers can usually begin to discern, though not with absolute certainty, genuine currency notes from fake ones.

  1. genuine currency notes from fake ones
  2. genuine currency notes apart from fake ones
  3. between genuine currency notes and fake ones
  4. among genuine currency notes and fake ones
  5. whether currency notes are fake or genuine
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Despite protests from industry, pollution control board officials have ordered the levels of microorganisms in various water bodies to be measured and that the results be published.

  1. the levels of microorganisms in various water bodies to be measured and that the results be published
  2. that various water bodies should be measured for their levels of microorganisms, with the results being
  3. the measure of levels of microorganisms in various water bodies and the results to be
  4. various water bodies measured for levels of microorganisms, with their results
  5. that the levels of microorganisms in various water bodies be measured and the results
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Researchers still know little about how the Lassa virus is spread and why the disease it causes, Lassa fever, causes complications in only some subjects though it spares many others.

  1. though it spares
  2. where it spares
  3. despite sparing
  4. when sparing
  5. while sparing
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

During the famine of 1930s, land revenue evictions resulted in thousands of Ryots being deprived of their land that they can no longer afford rent.

  1. that they can
  2. that they could
  3. on which they can
  4. because they can
  5. for which they could
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Distinguished art requires spending large sums of money, even if it is by no means certain that spending large sums of money produce distinguished art.

  1. even if it is by no means certain that spending large sums of money produce
  2. even if it is by no means certain that spending large sums of money will produce
  3. even though there is no certainty that spending of money in large sums produces
  4. even though it is by no means certain that spending large sums of money produces
  5. though there is no certainty as to spending of money in large sums producing
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to a survey, owning a house and a car is still the primary goal of a majority of working young adults, like that of earlier generations.

  1. like that of earlier generations
  2. as that for earlier generations
  3. just as earlier generations did
  4. as have earlier generations
  5. as it was of earlier generations
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

During their vacations Siddharth and his newly wedded wife travelled throughout India, making and keeping records forming the basis of books about the states where they had visited.

  1. forming the basis of books about the states where they had
  2. that were forming the basis of books about the states
  3. to form the basis of books about the states which they have
  4. which had formed the basis of books about the states where they had
  5. that formed the basis of books about the states they
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Research organisations do not usually think of their patents as capital or reckon the interest income that would be generated if a portion of the capital would have been invested in some other form.

  1. be generated if a portion of the capital would have been
  2. have been generated if a portion of the capital would have been
  3. be generated if a portion of the capital were
  4. be generated if a portion of the capital was
  5. be generated if a portion of the capital had been
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The author argues that just as rabies vaccine is given to every person bitten to protect the few who might actually contract the disease, mass vaccinating is needed against Hepatitis to protect the significant number who are susceptible to the life-threatening effects of the disease.

  1. just as rabies vaccine is given to every person bitten to protect the few who might actually contract the disease
  2. like rabies vaccine, which is given to every person bitten to protect the few who might contract the disease
  3. similar to rabies vaccine which is given to every person bitten in order to protect the few who might actually contract the disease
  4. while, to protect the few who might actually contract the disease, rabies vaccine is given to every person bitten
  5. similar to the giving of rabies vaccine to every person bitten in order to protect the few who might contract the disease actually
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