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Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - III

Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - III

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Although the coordination of export policy can help facilitate the orderly financing of existing imbalances, it is quite unlikely that its effect on their size is significant, in the absence of an appropriate structural adjustment.

  1. it is quite unlikely that its effect on their size is significant
  2. it is quite unlikely that the size of their effect would be significant
  3. affecting their sizes are not likely to be quite significant
  4. the significance of their effect on its size is quite unlikely
  5. its effect on their size is not likely to be quite significant
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1953 that people with disabilities could not be excluded outright from civil service, nearly six decades of case-by-case adjudication has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all bureaucracies must be drawn from “a fair cross section of the community.”

  1. has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all bureaucracies must be
  2. was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all bureaucracies being
  3. was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the principle of all bureaucracies to be
  4. is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all bureaucracies must be
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Indian productivity is declining in relation to China’s; the energy expended per unit of production in India is as much as twice that expended in China.

  1. as much as twice that expended in China
  2. as much as twice that of China’s expenditure
  3. up to two times of China’s expenditure
  4. up to two times what China expended
  5. up to double the Chinese expenditure
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Respondents blamed this year's sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, hotter and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed sales of beverages and apparel.

  1. hotter and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed
  2. which was hotter and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing
  3. since it was hotter and wetter than usually in some regions, which slowed
  4. being hotter and wetter than usually in some regions, slowing
  5. having been hotter and wetter than was usual in some regions and slowed
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As marketing communication grows more complex, the need that experts deal with technical issues becomes more apparent.

  1. that experts deal with technical issues becomes
  2. for experts to deal with technical issues became
  3. for experts to deal with technical issues becomes
  4. that technical issues be dealt by experts became
  5. that there be dealing of technical issues by experts has become
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Among the reasons for the decline of Indian manufacturing 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 products from China and South-East Asia.

  1. basing a marketing and distribution system on importing products from China and South-East Asia
  2. a marketing and distribution system based on importing products from China and South-East Asia
  3. basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of products from China and South-East Asia
  4. basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported products of China and South-East Asia
  5. a marketing and distribution system importing products from China and South-East Asia as its base
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As a result of the ground-breaking work of Watson and Crick, many biologists now believe that all of the information encoded in 60,000 to 70,000 of the different genes found in a fruit fly cell are contained in merely two percent of the cell’s DNA.

  1. 60,000 to 70,000 of the different genes found in a fruit fly cell are contained in merely
  2. 60,000 to 70,000 of the fruit fly cell’s different genes are contained in a mere
  3. the 60,000 to 70,000 different genes found in fruit fly cells are contained in merely
  4. 60,000 to 70,000 of fruit fly cell’s different genes is contained in merely
  5. the 60,000 to 70,000 different genes found in a fruit fly cell is contained in a mere
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As the author suggests, it is a lack of great ideas that have only left advertisers with symbolism, interpretation and deconstruction.

  1. As the author suggests, it is a lack of great ideas that have only left advertisers with
  2. Advertisers, the author suggests, who lack of great ideas and leave only
  3. The author suggests that a lack of great ideas has left advertisers with only
  4. It is the authors’ suggestion that a lack of great ideas have left advertisers only with
  5. It is only a lack of great ideas, the author suggests, which leave advertisers with
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As measured by the Commerce Ministry, export margins peaked in the fourth quarter of 1998 and have slipped since then, as many exporters have been unable to pass on higher costs.

  1. and have slipped since then, as many exporters have been unable to pass on higher costs
  2. and have slipped since then, the reason being because many exporters have been unable to pass on higher costs
  3. and slipped since then, many exporters being unable to pass on higher costs
  4. but, many exporters unable to pass on higher costs, they have slipped since then
  5. yet are slipping since then, because many exporters were unable to pass on higher costs
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As virtually all the nation’s 10 busiest ports are, Mumbai’s were built for an age of merchant vessels, before tankers weighing 100,000,000 pounds needed over two kilometres of berthing depth.

  1. As virtually all the nation’s 10 busiest ports are
  2. As with virtually all of the nation’s 10 busiest ports
  3. Like virtually all of the nation’s 10 busiest ports
  4. Like the cities where virtually all the nation’s 10 busiest ports are
  5. Like other cities where virtually all the nation’s 10 busiest ports are
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