1000 Real gmat sentence Correction Questions

(C) are natives of South America but were introduced into Florida during the 1930’s in an attempt at controlling

(D) had been native to South America but were introduced to Florida during the 1930’s as an attempt at controlling（A）

(E) had been natives of South America but were introduced to Florida during the 1930’s as attempts at controlling

184. 
     Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone.
     

(A) on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone

(B) on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone

(C) solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided

(D) while the duplication of facilities should be avoided（E）

(E) if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided

185. 
     By 1914, ten of the western states had granted women the right to vote, but only one in the East.
     

(A) only one in the East

(B) only one eastern state

(C) in the East there was only one state

(D) in the East only one state did（E）

(E) only one in the East had

186. 
     By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.
     

(A) enabling it to withhold from the public

(B) for it to withhold from the public

(C) for withholding disclosure to the public of

(D) that enable them to withhold from public disclosure（A）

(E) that they can withhold public disclosure of

187. 
     By analyzing the advanced olfactory apparatus of Pleistocene chordates, paleozoologists have discovered a link between the brain’s regions of scent discrimination and its regions of long-term memory storage, a link that could prove invaluable in the treatment of amnesia victims.
     

(A) paleozoologists have discovered a link between the brain’s regions of scent discrimination and its regions of long-term memory storage

(B) a link between the brain’s regions of scent discrimination and its regions of long-term memory storage has been discovered by paleozoologists

(C) there is a link that paleozoologists have discovered between the brain’s regions of scent discrimination and its regions of long-term memory storage

(D) the discovery of a link between the brain’s regions of scent discrimination and its regions of long-term memory storage was made by paleozoologists（A）

(E) the brain’s regions of scent discrimination and long-term memory storage have a link that was discovered by paleozoologists

188. 
     By installing special electric pumps, farmers’ houses could be heated by the warmth from cows’ milk, according to one agricultural engineer.
     

(A) farmers’ houses could be heated by the warmth from cows’ milk, according to one agricultural engineer

(B) the warmth from cows’ milk could be used by farmers to heat their houses, according to one agricultural engineer

(C) one agricultural engineer reports that farmers could use the warmth from cows’ milk to heat their houses

(D) farmers, according to one agricultural engineer, could use the warmth from cows’ milk to heat their houses（D）

(E) one agricultural engineer reports that farmers’ houses could be heated by the warmth from cows’ milk

189. 
     By offering lower prices and a menu of personal communications options, such as caller identification and voice mail, the new telecommunications company has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced them to offer competitive prices.
     

(A) has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced them

(B) has not only captured customers from other phone companies, but it also forced them

(C) has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced these companies

(D) not only has captured customers from other phone companies but also these companies have been forced（C）

(E) not only captured customers from other phone companies, but it also has forced them

190. 
     By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.
     

(A) to be in sympathy with

(B) to sympathize with

(C) for sympathizing with

(D) that they should sympathize with（C）

(E) that they should have sympathy for

191. 
     By studying the primitive visual systems of single-cell aquatic organisms, biophysicists have discovered a striking similarity between algae and cows, a similarity that indicates the common evolutionary origin of plants and animals: both algae and cows produce a light-sensitive protein called rhodopsin.
     

(A) biophysicists have discovered a striking similarity between algae and cows

(B) a striking similarity between algae and cows has been discovered by biophysicists

(C) there is a striking similarity that biophysicists have discovered between algae and cows

(D) the discovery of a striking similarity between algae and cows was made by biophysicists（A）

(E) algae and cows have a striking similarity that was discovered by biophysicists

192. 
     By the mid-seventeenth century, Amsterdam had built a new town hall so large that only St. Peter’s in Rome, the Escorial in Spain, and the Palazza Ducale in Venice could rival it for scale or magnificence.
     

(A) could rival it for

(B) were the rivals of it in their

(C) were its rival as to

(D) could be its rivals in their（A）

(E) were rivaling its

193. 
     Byron possessed powers of observation that would have made him a great anthropologist and that makes his letters as a group the rival of the best novels of the time.
     

(A) makes his letters as a group the rival of

(B) makes his letters as a group one to rival

(C) makes his letters a group rivaling

(D) make his letters as a group the rival of（D）

(E) make his letters a group which is the rival of

194. 
     Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the four thousand Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventeenth-century French to which has been added English, Spanish and Italian words.
     

(A) to which has been added English, Spanish and Italian words

(B) added to which is English, Spanish, and Italian words

(C) to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added

(D) with English, Spanish, and Italian words having been added to it（C）

(E) and, in addition, English, Spanish, and Italian words are added

195. 
     California’s child-support payments are as high or higher than other states.
     

(A) as high or higher than other states

(B) at least as high as any states

(C) as high as, or higher than, those of any other state

(D) higher than any state’s, or just as high（C）

(E) higher, or as high as, other states

196. 
     Camille Claudet worked continuously through the 1880’s and early 1890’s with the sculptor Auguste Rodin; since there are very few signed works of hers, the inescapable conclusion seems to be one of Claudet conceiving and executing part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period.
     

(A) inescapable conclusion seems to be one of Claudet conceiving and executing part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period

(B) conclusion of Claudet conceiving and executing part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period seems inescapable

(C) conclusion seems inescapable that part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period was conceived and executed by Claudet

(D) conclusion of part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period having been conceived and executed by Claudet seems inescapable（C）

(E) seemingly inescapable conclusion is that Claudet would have conceived and executed part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period

197. 
     Camus broke with Sartre in a bitter dispute over the nature of Stalinism.
     

(A) in a bitter dispute over

(B) over bitterly disputing

(C) after there was a bitter dispute over

(D) after having bitterly disputed about（A）

(E) over a bitter dispute about

198. 
     Canadian scientists have calculated that one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite, while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.
     

(A) one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite

(B) a human being should be struck by a meteorite once in every nine years

(C) a meteorite will strike one human being once in every nine years

(D) every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite（D）

(E) every nine years a human being should be struck by a meteorite

199. 
     Car owners who inflate their tires properly can substantially boost their vehicles’ fuel efficiency, since the increase in car-road friction can waste up to five percent of car fuel by underinflation.
     

(A) Car owners who inflate their tires properly can substantially boost their vehicles’ fuel efficiency, since the increase in car-road friction can waste up to five percent of car fuel by underinflation.

(B) Because the underinflation of tires can waste up to five percent of a car’s fuel by increasing car-road friction, car owners can substantially boost their vehicles’ fuel efficiency by properly inflating the tires.

(C) Their vehicles’ fuel efficiency is substantially boosted by car owners through the proper inflation of tires that, when underinflated, can waste up to five percent of car fuel by an increase in car-road friction.

(D) The proper inflation of tires by car owners, due to the fact that underinflation can waste up to five percent of a car’s fuel by the increase of car-road friction, can substantially boost their fuel efficiency.（B）

(E) Because up to five percent of a car’s fuel are wasted through the increases in car-road friction when the tires are underinflated, car owners properly inflating tires can substantially boost their fuel efficiency.

200. 
     Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
     

(A) as old as any of their supposed

(B) older than any of their supposed

(C) as old as their supposed

(D) older than any of their supposedly（B）

(E) as old as their supposedly

201. 
     Cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin between one to four minutes after a cardiac arrest in order to be a success.
     

(A) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin between one to four minutes after a cardiac arrest in order to be a success.

(B) Between one and four minutes after a cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin to be successful.

(C) Successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be begun from one to four minutes after a cardiac arrest occurs.

(D) If it is to be successful, a cardiac arrest should be treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation one to four minutes afterward.（E）

(E) To be successful, cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin within one to four minutes after a cardiac arrest.

202. 
     Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network which kept the brain from getting too hot.
     

(A) which kept

(B) that keeps

(C) which has kept

(D) that has been keeping（B）

(E) having kept

203. 
     Carpenters, dentists, sewing machine operators, needlepointers, piano players, and indeed anyone who works with their hands for long hours can get carpal tunnel syndrome.
     

(A) anyone who works

(B) anyone working

(C) workers

(D) those for whom work is（E）

(E) any people who work

204. 
     Cartographers have long struggled with the problem of having the spherical Earth to draw on a flat sheet of paper.
     

(A) having the spherical Earth to draw on a flat sheet of paper

(B) having a flat sheet of paper on which to draw the spherical Earth

(C) how can one draw the spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper

(D) how they could use a flat sheet of paper to draw the spherical Earth（E）

(E) how to draw the spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper

205. 
     Certain pesticides can become ineffective if used repeatedly in the same place; one reason is suggested by the finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that are free of such chemicals.
     

(A) Certain pesticides can become ineffective if used repeatedly in the same place; one reason is suggested by the finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that are free of such chemicals.

(B) If used repeatedly in the same place, one reason that certain pesticides can become ineffective is suggested by the finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that are free of such chemicals.

(C) If used repeatedly in the same place, one reason certain pesticides can become ineffective is suggested by the finding that much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes are found in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than those that are free of such chemicals.

(D) The finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that are free of such chemicals is suggestive of one reason, if used repeatedly in the same place, certain pesticides can become ineffective.（A）

(E) The finding of much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in those that are free of such chemicals suggests one reason certain pesticides can become ineffective if used repeatedly in the same place.

206. 
     Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore refused to carry even a pound of mail, despite being offered $1,000 to do so.
     

(A) Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore

(B) When Charles Lindbergh was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, being very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he

(C) Since he was very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, so Charles Lindbergh

(D) Being very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight was the reason that Charles Lindbergh（E）

(E) Very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh

207. 
     Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.
     

(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities

(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities（D）

(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

208. 
     Chicago, where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city, was plagued by labor troubles like the Pullman Strikes of 1894.
     

(A) where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city

(B) which had industrial growth in the nineteenth century more rapid than that of other American cities

(C) which had growth industrially more rapid than any other American city in the nineteenth century

(D) whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city（E）

(E) whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other American city

209. 
     Child prodigies are marked not so much by their skills but instead by the fact that these skills are fully developed at a very early age.
     

(A) but instead

(B) rather than

(C) than

(D) as（D）

(E) so much as

210. 
     Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters, each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.
     

(A) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its

(B) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

(C) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside its

(D) every character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their（A）

(E) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

211. 
     Chronic low-level leaking and the routine discharge of drilling mud and mineral salts present considerable environmental risk during offshore oil drilling.
     

(A) Chronic low-level leaking and the routine discharge of drilling mud and mineral salts present considerable environmental risk during offshore oil drilling.

(B) The reason offshore oil drilling presents a considerably environmental risk is because of chronic low-level leaking and the routine discharge of drilling mud and mineral salts.

(C) A considerable risk to the environment is presented during offshore oil drilling, where low-level leaks are chronic and the routine discharge of mud and mineral salts.

(D) Offshore oil drilling presents a considerable risk to the environment due to the fact of chronic low-level leaks, and mud and mineral salts are routinely discharged.（A）

(E) Chronic low-level leaking, along with the routine discharge of drilling mud and mineral salts, are what make offshore oil drilling environmentally risky.

212. 
     Citing evidence that the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has increased more than seven percent in the last 30 years, many scientists have expressed a fear of destroying forests and continued use of fossil fuels will cause an irreversible shift in Earth’s climatic pattern.
     

(A) many scientists have expressed a fear of destroying forests and continued use of

(B) many scientists have expressed a fear that destruction of forests and continued use of

(C) many scientists have expressed a fear that destruction of forests and continually using

(D) a fear that many scientists have expressed is that destroying forests and continually using（B）

(E) a fear that many scientists have expressed is that destruction of forests and continual using of

213. 
     Clark and Florence Wallace, a husband-and-wife medical team, worked steadily and efficiently through the night, but sipping their coffee the next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented.
     

(A) sipping their coffee the next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented

(B) sipping their coffee the next morning, he seemed to be disoriented, she noticed

(C) as they sipped their coffee the next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented

(D) as they were sipping their coffee the next morning, he seemed, she noticed, disoriented（C）

(E) he seemed disoriented, she noticed, sipping their coffee the next morning

214. 
     Climatic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the weather.
     

(A) so gradual as to be indistinguishable

(B) so gradual they can be indistinguishable

(C) so gradual that they are unable to be distinguished

(D) gradual enough not to be distinguishable（A）

(E) gradual enough so that one cannot distinguish them

215. 
     Comparing the Quechans with other Native Americans of the Southwest, the Quechans were singularly uninterested in the accumulation of material wealth or in the crafting of elaborate pottery and basketry.
     

(A) Comparing the Quechans with other Native Americans of the Southwest, the Quechans

(B) When you compare the Quechans to other Native Americans of the Southwest, they

(C) When other Native Americans of the Southwest are compared to the Quechans, they

(D) Comparison to other Native Americans of the Southwest shows that the Quechans（E）

(E) Compared with other Native Americans of the Southwest, the Quechans

216. 
     Computers are becoming faster, more powerful, and more reliable, and so too are modems, they are the devices to allow two or more computers to share information over regular telephone lines.
     

(A) so too are modems, they are the devices to allow

(B) so too are modems, the devices that allow

(C) so too modems, the devices allowing

(D) also modems, they are the devices that allow（B）

(E) also modems, which are the devices to allow

217. 
     Concerned at the increase in accident fatalities, Tennessee adopted a child-passenger protection law requiring the parents of children under four years of age to be restrained in a child safety seat.
     

(A) the parents of children under four years of age to be restrained in a child safety seat

(B) the restraint of parents of children under four years of age in a child safety seat

(C) that parents restrain children under four years of age in a child safety seat

(D) that children be restrained under four years of age in a child safety seat by their parents（C）

(E) children to be restrained under four years of age by their parents in a child safety seat

218. 
     Confused by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations overlying one another, Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt.
     

(A) Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt

(B) Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, temporarily halted