1000 Real gmat sentence Correction Questions

(A) those of loss rise

(B) it rises for loss

(C) those of losses rise

(D) the rate of loss rises（D）

(E) there are rises for the rate of loss

524. 
     Ms. Wright tries to get inside Iran to understand how it works, the role it has played in the Middle East and its intricate relationship with the United States, which is complex and depends heavily on understanding of the Farsi language.
     

(A) which is complex and depends

(B) because it is complex and depends

(C) but they are complex and depend

(D) which are complex and depend（E）

(E) a task that is complex and depends

525. 
     Native American burial sites dating back 5,000 years indicate that the residents of Maine at that time were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people.
     

(A) were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people

(B) had been part of a widespread culture of people who were Algonquian-speaking

(C) were people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

(D) had been people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking（A）

(E) were a people which had been part of a widespread, Algonquian-speaking culture

526. 
     Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language, a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species.
     

(A) Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes

(B) Neanderthals had a vocal tract resembling an ape’s

(C) The vocal tracts of Neanderthals resembled an ape’s

(D) The Neanderthal’s vocal tracts resembled the apes’（B）

(E) The vocal tracts of the Neanderthals resembled those of the apes

527. 
     Never before had taxpayers confronted so many changes at once as they had in the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
     

(A) so many changes at once as they had in

(B) at once as many changes as

(C) at once as many changes that there were with

(D) as many changes at once as they confronted in（D）

(E) so many changes at once that confronted them in

528. 
     Never before in the history of music have musical superstars been able to command so extraordinary fees of the kind they do today.
     

(A) so extraordinary fees of the kind they do today

(B) so extraordinary fees as they are today

(C) such extraordinary fees as they do today

(D) such extraordinary fees of the kind today’s have（C）

(E) so extraordinary a fee of the kind they can today

529. 
     New hardy varieties of rice show promise of producing high yields without the costly requirements of irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer by earlier high-yielding varieties.
     

(A) requirements of irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer by earlier high-yielding varieties

(B) requirements by earlier high-yielding varieties of application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation

(C) requirements for application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation of earlier high-yielding varieties

(D) application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation that was required by earlier high-yielding varieties（E）

(E) irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer that were required by earlier high-yielding varieties

530. 
     New Jersey’s is one of the five highest number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States.
     

(A) New Jersey’s is one of the five highest number of reported

(B) New Jersey’s is one of the five highest numbers in reporting

(C) New Jersey has a report of one of the five highest numbers of

(D) New Jersey has one of the five highest numbers of reported（D）

(E) New Jersey reports one of the five highest number of

531. 
     New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that records radiation from surface areas, makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever before.
     

(A) makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever before

(B) make it possible to study, in greater detail, the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before

(C) have made it possible to study in greater detail than ever before the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river

(D) make possible the study of the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than it ever was before（C）

(E) has made it more possible than ever before to study in greater detail the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river

532. 
     New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions.
     

(A) splitting apart continents

(B) the splitting apart of continents

(C) split apart continents

(D) continents split apart（B）

(E) continents that were split apart

533. 
     Newcomers to southern California are surprised to discover that, in spite of the temperate climate, heating bills are as high, or higher than, those in most Midwestern or eastern cities.
     

(A) as high, or higher than, those in

(B) as high, or higher than,

(C) as high as, or higher than,

(D) at least as high as those in（D）

(E) no lower than

534. 
     No less an authority than Walter Cronkite has reported that half of all Americans never read a book.
     

(A) No less an authority than

(B) Nonetheless an authority

(C) Nevertheless authoritarian

(D) Not less an authority than（A）

(E) An authority not less than

535. 
     No state law forbids an employer from rejecting a job applicant or to dismiss an employee based on the results of a lie detector test.
     

(A) an employer from rejecting a job applicant or to dismiss

(B) an employer to reject a job applicant or dismiss

(C) that employers reject a job applicant or dismiss

(D) the rejection by an employer of a job applicant or dismissal of（B）

(E) rejection by employers of a job applicant or dismissal of

536. 
     None of the attempts to specify the causes of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed have.
     

(A) have

(B) has

(C) shall

(D) do（D）

(E) could

537. 
     Not all employment selection mechanisms that have a “disparate effect,” that is, that screens out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate to their presence in the relevant labor market, are unlawful.
     

(A) that is, that screens out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate to

(B) which means, that screens out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate with

(C) which means, that screen out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate with

(D) that is, that screen out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate to（D）

(E) that is, that screens out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate with

538. 
     Not since Galileo suffered the “scurvy humor” of the Inquisition has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue a theory.
     

(A) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue

(B) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue

(C) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist to pursue

(D) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist to pursue（C）

(E) has a religious organization so effectively curbed whether a major scientist had the ability that he could be pursuing

539. 
     Not until the Enlightenment, some 200 years ago, had society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute its citizens.
     

(A) had society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute

(B) did society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute

(C) had society seriously questioned the right of the state for the executing of

(D) did society seriously question the right of the state to execute（D）

(E) had society seriously questioned whether the state had a right that it could execute

540. 
     Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern European architecture more apparent than their government buildings.
     

(A) more apparent than their

(B) so apparent as their

(C) more apparent than in its

(D) so apparent than in their（C）

(E) as apparent as it is in its

541. 
     Nuclear fusion is the force that powers the Sun, the stars, and hydrogen bombs, merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors.
     

(A) merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors

(B) merging the nuclei of atoms instead of splitting them apart, like nuclear reactors

(C) merging the nuclei of atoms rather than splitting them apart, as nuclear reactors do

(D) and merges the nuclei of atoms but does not split them apart, as is done in unclear reactors（E）

(E) and merges the nuclei of atoms, unlike atomic reactors that split them apart

542. 
     Oberlin College in Ohio was a renegade institution at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept both men and women as students.
     

(A) at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept

(B) for the decision at its 1833 founding to accept

(C) when it was founded in 1833 for its decision to accept

(D) in deciding at its founding in 1833 to accept（D）

(E) by deciding at its founding in 1833 on the acceptance of

543. 
     Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climate is maybe the more difficult for analysis.
     

(A) is maybe the more difficult for analysis

(B) is probably the most difficult to analyze

(C) is maybe the most difficult for analysis

(D) is probably the more difficult to analyze（B）

(E) is, it may be, the analysis that is most difficult

544. 
     Of all the wild animals in their area, none was more useful to the Delaware tribes than the Virginia white tailed deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue.
     

(A) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut

(B) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used

(C) deer: which was a source of meat, with its hide used for clothing, antlers and bones for tools, as well as its sinews and gut used

(D) deer: which, as well as being a source of meat, its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut were（A）

(E) deer: with, as well as being a source of meat, its hide used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut

545. 
     Of the twin supernovas, the most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one that has irrevocably altered astronomists’ ideas about the origins of the universe.
     

(A) the most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one

(B) the one most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one

(C) the most recently discovered is larger, but it is the smaller

(D) the more recently discovered one is the large one but the small one（E）

(E) the more recently discovered is the larger, but it is the smaller one

546. 
     Often visible as smog, ozone is formed in the atmosphere from hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, two major pollutants emitted by automobiles, react with sunlight.
     

(A) ozone is formed in the atmosphere from

(B) ozone is formed in the atmosphere when

(C) ozone is formed in the atmosphere, and when

(D) ozone, formed in the atmosphere when（B）

(E) ozone, formed in the atmosphere from

547. 
     On stage, the force of Carrick’s personality and the vividness of his acting disguised the fact he was, which his surviving velvet suit shows, a short man.
     

(A) he was, which his surviving velvet suit shows,

(B) he was, and it is his surviving velvet suit that shows it,

(C) of him being, as his surviving velvet suit shows,

(D) that he was, as his surviving velvet suit shows,（D）

(E) shown in his surviving velvet suit, that he was

548. 
     On the Great Plains, nineteenth-century settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without timber and nails.
     

(A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without

(B) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, did it without

(C) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, making them while not having

(D) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, making do without（D）

(E) settlers’ homes were built of mud and grass, making do without

549. 
     Once an apolitical confrontation of the world’s best athletes, the Summer Olympics have been increasingly politicized in recent years as the superpowers have denied many of the best athletes’ access to competition.
     

(A) been increasingly politicized

(B) been increasing politicization

(C) been of increasing politicization

(D) politicized, increasingly,（A）

(E) increased politicization

550. 
     Once common throughout the Western plains, black-footed ferrets are thought to have declined in number as a result of the poisoning of prairie dogs, their prey.
     

(A) black-footed ferrets are thought to have declined in number as

(B) it is thought that the decline in number of black-footed ferrets is

(C) the decline in the number of black-footed ferrets is thought of as

(D) that black-footed ferrets have declined in their numbers is thought to be（A）

(E) the numbers of the black-footed ferret are thought to have declined as

551. 
     Once positioned in space, the Hubble Space Telescope will capture light from sources twenty times fainter compared to those that can be detected by ground-based instruments.
     

(A) compared to those that can be detected

(B) compared to those they can detect

(C) than that can be detected

(D) than those that can be detected（D）

(E) than those detecting

552. 
     Once the economic and social usefulness of the motor car was demonstrated and with its superiority to the horse being proved, much of the early hostility to it in rural regions disappeared.
     

(A) and with its superiority to the horse being

(B) and its superiority over the horse had been

(C) and its superiority to the horse

(D) its superiority over the horse（C）

(E) with its superiority to the horse having been

553. 
     Once they had seen the report from the medical examiner, the investigators did not doubt whether the body recovered from the river was the man who had attempted to escape from the state prison.
     

(A) did not doubt whether the body recovered from the river was

(B) have no doubt whether the body recovered from the river was

(C) had not doubted that the body recovered from the river was

(D) have no doubt whether the body recovered from the river was that of（E）

(E) had no doubt that the body recovered from the river was that of

554. 
     One legacy of Madison Avenue’s recent campaign to appeal to people fifty years old and over is the realization that as a person ages, their concerns change as well.
     

(A) the realization that as a person ages, their

(B) the realization that as people age, their

(C) to realize that when a person ages, his or her

(D) to realize that when people age, their（B）

(E) realizing that as people age, their

555. 
     One noted economist has made a comparison of the Federal Reserve and an automobile as racing through a tunnel, bouncing first off one wall, then the other; the car may get where it is going, but people may be hurt in the process.
     

(A) made a comparison of the Federal Reserve and an automobile as racing through a tunnel, bouncing

(B) made a comparison between the Federal Reserve and an automobile racing through a tunnel, bouncing

(C) compared the Federal Reserve with an automobile as racing through a tunnel and which bounced

(D) compared the Federal Reserve to an automobile racing through a tunnel, bouncing（D）

(E) compared the Federal Reserve with an automobile that races through a tunnel and it bounces

556. 
     One of Arthur Jessop’s first acts as president of the FHA was to deny a request from the private sector that federal home loan programs should be expanded to cover houses not conforming to civil construction codes.
     

(A) should be expanded to cover houses not conforming to

(B) be expanded to cover houses not conforming to

(C) should be expand to cover houses not conforming with

(D) would have been expanded to cover houses not conforming to（B）

(E) had to be expanded to cover houses not conforming with

557. 
     One of every two new businesses fail within two years.
     

(A) fail

(B) fails

(C) should fail

(D) may have failed（B）

(E) has failed

558. 
     One of four babies are now born to mothers aged thirty years or more, compared with just one of six born in 1975.
     

(A) of four babies are now born to mothers aged thirty years or more, compared with just one of six born

(B) of four babies is now born to a mother whose age is thirty or older, compared to just one of six babies who were born

(C) baby in four are now born to mothers aged thirty or older, compared to just one in six

(D) baby in four is now born to a mother aged thirty or older, compared with just one in six（D）

(E) baby in four is now born to mothers aged thirty years or more, compared to just one in six

559. 
     One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts as President was to rescind President Carter’s directive that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States be prohibited from sale to other countries.
     

(A) that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States be prohibited from sale to other countries

(B) that any chemical be prohibited from sale to other countries that was banned on medical grounds in the United States

(C) prohibiting the sale to other countries of any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States

(D) prohibiting that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States is sold to other countries（C）

(E) that any chemical banned in the United States on medical grounds is prohibited from being sold to other countries

560. 
     One of the most powerful driving forces behind recycling is the threat of legislation that would require companies that they take more responsibility for the disposal of its products.
     

(A) that they take more responsibility for the disposal of its products

(B) that they should take more responsibility for disposing of products

(C) having to take more responsibility for disposing of their products

(D) to take more responsibility for the disposal of their products（D）

(E) taking more responsibility for their product’s disposal

561. 
     One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored.
     

(A) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored

(B) persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium

(C) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, it restored market equilibrium

(D) the persuasion of people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium（B）

(E) market equilibrium was restored when people were persuaded to eat former horse feed

562. 
     One reason why more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year undoubtedly is because school vacations give adolescents more free time.
     

(A) One reason why more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year undoubtedly is because

(B) If young people lose their virginity more during the summer than other seasons, it is undoubtedly because

(C) One undoubtable reason that young people lose their virginity more during the summer than other times is

(D) One reason more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year is undoubtedly that（D）

(E) Young people lose their virginity more often during the summer undoubtedly because, for one reason,

563. 
     One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation, a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar.
     

(A) lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation,

(B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation,

(C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation,

(D) interest rates being lowered, along with fears about inflation,（B）

(E) interest rates and fears about inflation being lowered, with

564. 
     Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean was the first public museum in Great Britain, while earlier the Bodleian has been the first truly public library.
     

(A) while earlier the Bodleian has been

(B) where the Bodleian earlier is

(C) just as earlier the Bodleian had been

(D) as the earlier Bodleian has been（C）

(E) the Bodleian earlier being

565. 
     Opening with tributes to jazz-age divas like Bessie Smith and closing with Koko Taylor’s electrified gravel-and-thunder songs, the program will trace the blues’ vigorous matriarchal line over more than 50 years.