1.

The fear of rabies is well founded; few people are known to recover from the
disease after the appearance of the clinical symptoms.

(A) few people are known to recover from the disease after the appearance of
the clinical symptoms
(B) few people are known to have recovered from the disease once the
clinical symptoms have appeared
(C) there are few known people who have recovered from the disease once
the clinical symptoms have appeared
(D) after the clinical symptoms appear, there are few known people who have
recovered from the disease
(E) recovery from the disease is known for only a few people after the clinical
symptoms appear

2. 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
(E) so extraordinary a fee of the kind they can today

3. Freedman’s survey showed that people living in small towns and rural
areas consider themselves no happier than do people living in big cities.

(A) no happier than do people living

(B) not any happier than do people living
(C) not any happier than do people who live
(D) no happier than are people who are living
(E) not as happy as are people who live

4. The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970’s, rising from $114 to
$220, yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their
pay may buy.

(A) with a decrease in what their pay may buy

(B) with what was a decrease in what they were able to buy
(C) having decreased that which they could buy
(D) decreasing in purchasing power
(E) with a decrease in purchasing power

5. Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own a
bicycle.

(A) Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own
a bicycle.
(B) Out of every four, three automobile owners in the United States also owns
a bicycle.
(C) Bicycles are owned by three out of every four owners of automobiles in
the United States.
(D) In the United States, three out of every four automobile owners owns
bicycles.
(E) Out of every four owners of automobiles in the United States, bicycles are
also owned by three.

6. Studies show that young people with higher-than-average blood pressure

and their families have a history of high blood pressure are more likely than
others to develop a severe form of the condition.

(A) and their families have a history of high blood pressure

(B) whose families have a history of high blood pressure
(C) and a history of high blood pressure runs in the family
(D) whose families have a history of high blood pressure running in them
(E) with a history of high blood pressure running in their family

7. In Egypt in the late Paleolithic period, the climate changed, pastures

became deserts, and the inhabitants were forced to withdraw to the land
bordering the Nile from their hunting grounds.

(A) inhabitants were forced to withdraw to the land bordering the Nile from
their hunting grounds
(B) inhabitants had been forced to withdraw from their hunting grounds to
the land bordering the Nile
(C) inhabitants were forced to withdraw from their hunting grounds to the
land bordering the Nile
(D) inhabitants having been forced to, withdrew from their hunting grounds to
the land that bordered the Nile
(E) inhabitants withdrew, because they were forced to, from their hunting
grounds to the land bordering the Nile

8. Two valence states of uranium, one with a deficit of four electrons and the
other one with a deficit of six, occurs in nature and contributes to the
diversity of uranium’s behavior.

(A) the other one with a deficit of six, occurs in nature and contributes
(B) the other one a deficit of six, occur in nature and contribute
(C) the other with a deficit of six, occurs in nature and contributes
(D) the other with a deficit of six, occur in nature and contribute
(E) one with six, occurs in nature and contributes

9. Dr. Hegsted argues that just as polio vaccine is given to every person to
protect the few who might actually contract polio, mass dietary change is
needed to protect the significant number who are susceptible to the life-
threatening effects of press eating habits.

(A) just as polio vaccine is given to every person to protect the few who
might actually contract polio
(B) like polio vaccine, which is given to every person to protect the few who
might contract polio
(C) similar to polio vaccine which is given to every person to protect the few
who might actually contract polio
(D) while, to protect the few who might actually contract polio, polio vaccine
is given to every person
(E) similar to the giving of polio vaccine to every person in order to protect
the few who might contract polio actually
10. In her recently published study, Rubin asserts that most women do not
suffer from the “empty nest syndrome”; they are, in fact, relieved when their
children depart.

(A) they are, in fact, relieved when their children depart

(B) and they are, in fact, relieved when their children departed
(C) they are, in fact, relieved when their children departed
(D) in fact, they are relieved when their children departed
(E) they are relieved at the departure of the children, in fact

11. Eaten in the Mediterranean countries, northern Europeans viewed the

tomato with suspicion, for they assumed it had poisonous properties because
of its relationship to deadly nightshade.

(A) northern Europeans viewed the tomato with suspicion, for they
(B) northern Europeans were suspicious of the tomato, and they
(C) the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, who
(D) the tomato was suspicious to northern Europeans, and it was
(E) the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, it being

12. In 1980, for the first time, the number of foreigners touring the United
States were in excess of the number of Americans going abroad.

(A) were in excess of the number of Americans

(B) had an excess over the Americans who were
(C) exceeded the Americans who were
(D) numbered more than the Americans
(E) exceeded the number of Americans

13. The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from
one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of
seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to

(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of the cheetah is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

14. It may be another fifteen years before spacecrafts from Earth again
venture to Mars, a planet now known to be cold, dry, and probably lifeless.

(A) again venture to Mars, a planet now known to be

(B) venture to Mars again, a planet now known for being
(C) will venture to Mars again, a planet now known as being
(D) venture again to Mars, a planet that is known now to be
(E) will again venture to Mars, a planet now known as being

15. 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) where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than
that of any other American city

16. An attempt to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two
decades ago, has been unsuccessful despite efforts by many important
groups, including the National Organization for Women.

(A) to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago
(B) begun almost two decades ago, for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment
(C) begun for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment almost two decades ago
(D) at ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago
(E) that has begun almost two decades ago to ratify the Equal Rights
Amendment

17. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should
boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the
construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years
ago.

(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust
than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust
than five years ago
(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust
than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust
than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust
than it was five years ago

18. At the invitation of Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Du Bois settled in Gharla and
became the editor of the Encyclopedia Africana.

(A) At the invitation of

(B) When he was invited by
(C) An invitation coming from
(D) An invitation that came from
(E) After having an invitation by

19. Those with a cynical turn of mind might speculate if the new corporation,
eager for profit, might not have started the rumor that caused its competitor
to declare bankruptcy.

(A) speculate if the new corporation, eager for profit, might not have started
(B) speculate if the new corporation, eager for profit, had not started
(C) speculate if, in its eagerness for profit, the new corporation started
(D) wonder as to whether, in its eagerness for profit, the new corporation did
not start
(E) wonder whether the new corporation, eager for profit, had started

20. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause
chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly,
who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

(A) Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause
chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly,
who are particularly vulnerable to its
(B) Brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds,
posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly
vulnerable to their
(C) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds
and poses the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly
vulnerable to their
(D) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds
and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly
vulnerable to its
(E) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic

21. If additional deposits of oil are found, it will expand the amount that can
be used as fuel and reduce the price of oil, even if the deposits are not
immediately tapped.

(A) it will expand the amount that can be used as fuel and reduce the price of
oil
(B) the amount that is able to be used as fuel will expand and the price of oil
be reduced
(C) it will cause an increase in the amount that is able to be used as fuel and
a reduction in the price of oil
(D) the amount that can be used as fuel will increase and the price of oil will
drop
(E) it will increase the amount of oil that can be used as fuel and cause a drop
in the price

22. Because Halley’s comet changes orbit slightly during the seventy-six-year
interval between passing close to Earth, it may veer onto a collision course
with a planet sometime in the distant future.

(A) between passing

(B) of passing
(C) between its passes
(D) of its passes
(E) as it passes

23. The Commerce Department announced that the economy grew during the
second quarter at a 7.5 percent annual rate, While inflation eased when it
might have been expected for it to rise.
(A) it might have been expected for it to rise
(B) it might have been expected to rise
(C) it might have been expected that it should rise
(D) its rise might have been expected
(E) there might have been an expectation it would rise

24. The extraordinary diary of William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of
Canada for over twenty years, revealed that this most bland and circumspect
of men was a mystic guided in both public and private life by omens,
messages received at séances, and signs from heaven.

(A) that this most bland and circumspect of men was a mystic guided in both
public and
(B) that this most bland and circumspect of men was a mystic and also
guided both in public as well as
(C) this most bland and circumspect of men was a mystic and that he was
guided in both public and
(D) this most bland and circumspect of men was a mystic and that he was
guided in both public as well as
(E) this most bland and circumspect of men to have been a mystic and that
he guided himself in both public as well as

25. With just several quick strokes of the pen, the monkeys were drawn by
the artist, capturing their antics.

(A) the monkeys were drawn by the artist, capturing their antics
(B) the artist sketched the monkeys, capturing their antics
(C) the artist captured the antics of the monkeys, sketching them
(D) the artist sketched the monkeys and also capturing their antics
(E) the monkeys and their antics were sketched by the artist
Answers at the bottom of the page

1. B 2.C 3.A 4.E 5.A 6.B 7.C 8.D 9.A 10.A 11.C 12.E 13.D 14. A 15.E 16. A 17.C 18.A
19.E 20.D 21.D 22.C 23. B 24. A 25.B