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Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The objective of democracy was to end the absolutist regimes, but replace them, not by the rule of the mass of the people, but by the propertied middle-class.
- The objective of democracy was to end the absolutist regimes, but replace them, not by the rule of the mass of the people, but by the propertied middle-class
- The objective of democracy was to end the absolutist regimes, but replace it, not by the rule of the mass of the people, but by the propertied middle-class
- The objective of democracy was to end the absolutist regimes, and replace them, not by the rule of the mass of the people, but by the propertied middle-class
- The objective of democracy was to end the absolutist regimes, and to replace it, not by the rule of the mass of the people, but by the propertied middle-class
- The objective of democracy was to end the absolutist regimes, and to replace them, not by the rule of the mass of the people, but by the propertied middle-class
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Goldstein cleverly compares the objective of the so-called “formalist program” to find a master list of axioms, from which all of mathematics could be derived by rigid logical deduction, to a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, by logical rules.
- to a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, by logical rules
- with a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, to logical rules
- to a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, to logical rules
- with a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, by logical rules
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
If cloning was to produce genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it will not be necessary to ban it, because no one will use it.
- If cloning was to produce genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it will not be necessary to ban it, because no one will use it.
- If cloning has to produce genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it will not be necessary to ban it, because no one will use it.
- If cloning were to produce genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it would not have been necessary to ban it, because no one would use it.
- If cloning were to produce genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it will not be necessary to ban it, because no one will use it.
- If cloning had to produce genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it will not be necessary to ban it, because no one will use it.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Any change in a personal business relationship may be done with measured care rather than haste.
- Any change in a personal business relationship may be done with measured care rather than haste.
- Any change in a personal business relationship could be done with measured care rather than haste.
- Any change in a personal business relationship may be done with measured care than with haste.
- Any change in a personal business relationship should be done with measured care rather than with haste.
- Any change in a personal business relationship could be done with measured care rather than doing it with haste.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:" 12px;=""><span new="style=font-size:" 10pt;="" font-family:="" arial;="">Directions:<span new="style=font-size:" 10pt;="" font-family:="" arial;=""> This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Opt for unelected government and find the clean administrator swiftly replaced by a greedy and unstable general: decree powers given to good guys to get things done abused.
- find the clean administrator swiftly replaced by a greedy and unstable general: decree powers given to good guys to get things done abused
- you find the clean administrator swiftly replaced by a greedy and unstable general: decree powers given to good guys to get things done would be abused
- you find the clean administrator swiftly replaced by a greedy and unstable general: decree powers given to good guys to get things done abused
- find the clean administrator swiftly replaced by a greedy and unstable general: decree powers given to good guys to get things done would be abused
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:" 12px;=""><span new="style=font-size:" 10pt;="" font-family:="" arial;="">Directions:<span new="style=font-size:" 10pt;="" font-family:="" arial;=""> This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
To get an administrative system that would do more good than damage, it would be far better to draw people from fields of life as diverse as possible; and that too, after they had developed the maturity to understand what really needed to be done.
- after they had developed the maturity to understand what really needed to be done
- after they developed the maturity to understand what really needed to be done
- after they have developed the maturity to understand what really needs to be done
- after they develop the maturity to understand what really needed to be done
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
There are some who believe that the assets of sensitive technology should be locked up and kept away from the gaze of “the lesser breed”, as if knowledge were possibly contained today in nation–tight compartments.
- as if knowledge were possibly contained today in nation–tight compartments
- as if knowledge is possibly contained today in nation–tight compartments
- as if knowledge can possibly be contained today in nation–tight compartments
- as if knowledge should possibly be contained today in nation–tight compartments
- as if knowledge today possibly contains nation–tight compartments
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The apprentice became assimilated into a way of life which lent the particular trade or craft; and perhaps not merely a skill but an entire way of life was transmitted.
- The apprentice became assimilated into a way of life which lent the particular trade or craft; and perhaps not merely a skill but an entire way of life was transmitted.
- The apprentice became assimilated into a way of life which lent the particular trade or craft; and perhaps learnt not merely a skill but an entire way of life.
- The apprentice became assimilated into a way of life which lent the particular trade or craft, perhaps not merely a skill but an entire way of life was transmitted.
- The apprentice became assimilated into a way of life which lent the particular trade or craft perhaps not merely a skill but an entire way of life.
- The apprentice became assimilated into a way of life which lent the particular trade or craft not merely a skill, but perhaps an entire way of life.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
For the economy to be cohesive it is pertinent that economic activity in one part of our economy generates the dynamism in other sectors too.
- For the economy to be cohesive it is pertinent that economic activity in one part of our economy generates the dynamism in other sectors too.
- For the economy to be cohesive it is pertinent that economic activity in one part of our economy generate the dynamism in other sectors too.
- For the economy to be cohesive it is pertinent economic activity in one part of our economy generates the dynamism in other sectors too.
- For the economy to be cohesive it is pertinent that economic activity in one part of our economy should generate the dynamism in other sectors too.
- For the economy to be cohesive it is pertinent economic activity in one part of our economy generate the dynamism in other sectors too.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
To approach the natural world as if it was a clock mechanism required two changes: first, nature has to be imagined as essentially dead, and second, the scientist has to place a distance between himself and nature.
- To approach the natural world as if it was a clock mechanism required two changes
- To approach the natural world as if it had been a clock mechanism required two changes
- To approach the natural world as if it had been a clock mechanism requires two changes
- To approach the natural world as if it is a clock mechanism requires two changes
- To approach the natural world as if it were a clock mechanism would require two changes
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The main advantage for the use of science in education is that it make him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and teach him how to think logically and inductively.
- The main advantage for the use of science in education is that it make him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and teach him
- The main advantage for the use of science in education is in making him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and teaching him
- The main advantage for the use of science in education is making him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and teaching him
- The main advantage for the use of science in education is that it makes him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and teaches him
- The main advantage for the use of science in education is by making him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and by teaching him
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Without confidence in an enduring social order, people find that they have to devote all their psychic energies to survival, rather than being able to direct them outwards to enriching the world and the society around them.
- rather than being able to direct them outwards to enriching the world and the society around them
- rather than being able to direct themselves outwards to enriching the world and the society around them
- rather than direct them outwards to enriching the world and the society around them
- rather than direct themselves outwards to enriching the world and the society around them
- rather than directing themselves outwards to enriching the world and the society around them
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
If it is the high incidence of crime in a certain part of a large city that requires explanation, the scientist is obliged to offer his explanation in terms of factors which are empirically real as the phenomenon of crime itself.
- the scientist is obliged to offer his explanation in terms of factors which are empirically real as the phenomenon of crime itself
- the scientist is obliged to offer his explanation in terms of factors which are empirically as real as the phenomenon of crime itself
- the scientist is obliged to offer his explanation in terms of factors which are empirically real as is the phenomenon of crime itself
- the scientist is obliged to offer his explanation in terms of factors which are empirically real as the phenomenon of crime itself
- the scientist is obliged to offer his explanation in terms of factors which are empirically real as per the phenomenon of crime itself
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
When reminded of his obligation under the rules, he complied with the requirement that all graduate students in education should write a thesis.
- he complied with the requirement that all graduate students in education should write a thesis
- he complied with the requirement that all graduate students in education write their thesis
- he complied with the requirement for all graduate students in education to write their thesis
- he complied with the requirement that all graduate students in education write a thesis
- he complied with the requirement that all graduate students in education be writing a thesis
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Having convinced herself about the futility of any strict regimen, she ignored the suggestion that she should get more exercise.
- she ignored the suggestion that she should get more exercise
- she ignored the suggestion for more exercise
- she ignored the suggestion for getting more of exercise
- she ignored the suggestion that she get more exercise
- she ignored the suggestion that she be getting more exercise