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Multiple choice softskills communication

Synonym for yelping

  1. help

  2. sleep

  3. jump

  4. bark
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Yelping means to give a short sharp cry, typically from pain or alarm. Dogs are the most common animals associated with this sound. 'Bark' is the closest synonym among the options. 'Help', 'sleep', and 'jump' are unrelated to vocalizations.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that homing pigeons can sense changes in the earth's magnetic field, see light waves that people cannot see, detect low-frequency sounds from miles away, sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors.

  1. A. sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors

  2. B. can sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors

  3. C. sense changes in air pressure, and identify familiar odors

  4. D. air pressure changes can be sensed, and familiar odors identified

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is a sentence correction/redundancy elimination question. The original sentence lists capabilities redundantly with 'can' appearing multiple times. Option C 'sense changes in air pressure, and identify familiar odors' maintains parallel structure without the redundant 'can' while preserving meaning.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

In ancient times, Nubia was the principal corridor where there were cultural influences transmitted between Black Africa and the Mediterranean basin.

  1. A. where there were cultural influences transmitted

  2. B. through which cultural influences were transmitted

  3. C. where there was a transmission of cultural influences

  4. D. for the transmitting of cultural influences

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

When describing a corridor or path that something travels through, "through which" is the grammatically correct choice. "Where there were" is wordy and less precise for directional transmission.

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It is a special feature of cell aggregation in the developing nervous system that in most regions of the brain the cells not only adhere to one another and also adopt some preferential orientation.

  1. A. to one another and also adopt

  2. B. one to the other, and also they adopt

  3. C. one to the other, but also adopting

  4. D. to one another but also adopt

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The "not only... but also" construction requires parallel verb forms. "Not only adhere... but also adopt" keeps both verbs in base form after the auxiliary.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture 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 produce from Florida and California.

  1. A. basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California

  2. B. basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California

  3. C. basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California

  4. D. a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The list needs parallel structure: "the high cost... the pressure... and [a system based on...]". "Basing" breaks the pattern by using a participial phrase instead of a noun phrase.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease.

  1. A. its victims unless inoculated

  2. B. its victims unless they are inoculated

  3. C. its victims unless inoculation is done

  4. D. the victims unless there is an inoculation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Victims are inoculated by medical professionals, so the passive voice "unless they are inoculated" is needed. "They" clearly refers to rabies victims.

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In a period of time when women typically have had a narrow range of choices, Mary Baker Eddy became a distinguished writer and the founder, architect, and builder of a growing church.

  1. A. In a period of time when women typically have

  2. B. During a time in which typically women have

  3. C. Typically, during a time when women

  4. D. At a time when women typically

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

"At a time when" is the most concise and natural expression. "In a period of time" is redundant (a period IS time). "During a time" and "Typically" add unnecessary words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

The message conveyed by the conference speakers make me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in stocks traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

  1. A. make me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in stocks traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

  2. B. make me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in NASDAQ stocks.

  3. C. make me feel fortunate that I did not invest my money in NASDAQ stocks.

  4. D. makes me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in NASDAQ stocks.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The subject is "message" (singular), so the verb must be "makes" not "make". Also, "NASDAQ stocks" is more concise than "stocks traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange."