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Multiple choice softskills leadership

Over 75 percent of the energy produced in France derives from nuclear power, while in Germany it is just over 33 percent.

  1. compared with the energy from nuclear power in Germany, where it is just over 33 percent

  2. compared to Germany, which uses just over 33 percent

  3. whereas nuclear power accounts for just over 33 percent of the energy produced in Germany

  4. whereas just over 33 percent of the energy comes from nuclear power in Germany
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This option provides a clear, parallel comparison between the two countries. Using 'whereas' establishes a strong contrast, and the phrase 'accounts for' is the most idiomatic way to describe the proportion of energy sources in a formal context.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.

  1. a doubling of the apples that it did

  2. twice as many apples as it did

  3. as much as twice the apples it has

  4. two times as many apples as there were
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

When comparing quantities of countable nouns like 'apples', 'twice as many as' is the correct idiomatic expression. 'Double the apples' is less formal, and 'as much as' is used for uncountable quantities. 'Did' correctly provides the past tense comparison to 1910.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Gall’s hypothesis of there being different mental functions localized in different parts of the brain is widely accepted today.

  1. which is widely accepted today is that there are different mental functions localized in different parts of the brain

  2. of different mental functions that are localized in different parts of the brain is widely accepted today

  3. that different mental functions are localized in different parts of the brain is widely accepted today

  4. which is that there are different mental functions localized in different parts of the brain is widely accepted today
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The noun 'hypothesis' is most idiomatically followed by a 'that' clause (appositive clause) to explain the content of the hypothesis. 'Of there being' is wordy and unidiomatic in formal English. The correct option provides a clear, direct statement of the theory.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

  1. In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter

  2. In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter

  3. Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations

  4. Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This version correctly uses a relative clause ('which she carefully coordinated...') to describe the illustrations. The original sentence and other distractors suffer from awkward parenthetical placement or dangling participles that obscure the relationship between Potter and her work.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines have been priced to sell, and they are.

  1. are priced to sell, and they have

  2. are priced to sell, and they do

  3. are being priced to sell, and have

  4. had been priced to sell, and they have
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence needs parallel structure to complete 'they are'. Option B 'they do' provides the correct completion - 'are priced to sell, and they do [sell]' maintains parallelism. The original sentence trails off incompletely with 'they are' hanging.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival’s month.

  1. world, proclaiming a sacred truce during the festival’s month

  2. world when they proclaimed a sacred truce for the festival month

  3. world, for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival

  4. world by proclamation of a sacred truce that was for the month of the festival
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The conjunction 'for' is used here as a synonym for 'because' to explain why the games helped keep peace. This choice is more concise and stylistically superior to 'in that' or 'by proclamation of', which are wordy or awkward.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

A leading fi gure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith’s two major books are to democratic capitalism what Marx’s Das Kapital is to socialism.

  1. Adam Smith’s two major books are to democratic capitalism like

  2. Adam Smith’s two major books are to democratic capitalism just as

  3. Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism similar to

  4. Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The introductory phrase 'A leading figure...' must modify 'Adam Smith', not his books. The correct option fixes this dangling modifier by making 'Adam Smith' the subject of the main clause and uses the correct 'what' for the comparative analogy.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Diabetes, together with its serious complications, have been ranked as the nation’s third leading causes of death, only surpassed by heart disease and cancer.

  1. rank as the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed

  2. ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed only

  3. has the rank of the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed

  4. are the nation’s third leading causes of death, surpassed only
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The subject 'Diabetes' is singular; phrases like 'together with' do not make the subject plural, so the verb must be 'ranks'. Additionally, 'cause of death' should be singular to match the subject, and 'surpassed only' is more precise than 'only surpassed'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Müller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.

  1. the career of M?ller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

  2. M?ller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

  3. M?ller’s career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

  4. M?ller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The opening modifier 'Spanning more than 50 years' must describe 'Müller’s career' rather than Müller himself. The correct option provides this logical subject and uses the idiomatic 'apprenticeship as' to describe his role, maintaining parallel structure with the rest of the sentence.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, there is so much debilitation that it has become an economical drain on many developing countries.

  1. it is so debilitating that it has become an economic

  2. it is of such debilitation, it has become an economical

  3. so debilitating is it as to become an economic

  4. such is its debilitation, it becomes an economical
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct option uses the adjective 'debilitating' to describe the disease and 'economic' to describe the type of drain. 'Economical' means thrifty, which is contextually incorrect, and 'debilitation' is a noun that makes the original phrasing clunky compared to the adjective form.