Set 88:
1.Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechets student and
protege when he was nineteen and, for a few years in
the 1940s, came as close to being a carbon copy of
the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever
come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
2. 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
(E) settlers homes were built of mud and grass,
making do without
3. Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a
world in which the public and private realms of their
lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated
in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged
national leaders without receiving, or expecting,
intimate information about them.
(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and
(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and where
(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the
distinction and
(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for
(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and in which
4.A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.
(A) flames spreading
(B) flame spreads
(C) flames are caused to spread
(D) causing flames to spread
(E) causing spreading of the flames
5.A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
6.A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million yars ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be
7.A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
8.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 industrys economic health much more robust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industrys economic health much more robust than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industrys economic health much more robust than five years ago
(C) making the construction industrys economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industrys economic health much more robust than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industrys economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
OA in bold.