1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 155 (E) describe what happen if Huns, Goths, and Visigoths invade 599.Recent excavations suggest that the ancient peoples of the Italian peninsula merged the cult of Damia—a goddess of fertility and the harvest—with Venus . (A) with Venus (B) and Venus (C) with that of Venus (D) and Venus’ (E) and Venus’ cult 600.Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest that the Australian egg-laying mammals of today are a branch of the main stem of mammalian evolution rather than developing independently from a common ancestor of mammals more than 220 million years ago. (A) rather than developing independently from (B) rather than a type that developed independently from (C) rather than a type whose development was independent of (D) instead of developing independently from (E) instead of a development that was independent of 601.Recently implemented “shift-work equations” based on studies of the human sleep cycle have reduced sickness, sleeping on the job, fatigue among shift workers, and have raised production efficiency in various industries. (A) fatigue among shift workers, and have raised (B) fatigue among shift workers, and raised (C) and fatigue among shift workers while raising (D) lowered fatigue among shift workers, and raised (E) and fatigue among shift workers was lowered while raising 602.Recently there has been increased debate over if a budget surplus should go towards lower taxes or increased spending on social programs. 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(A) he first made copies of more than twenty 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 156 (B) first he made copies of more than twenty (C) more than twenty were copied (D) copies of more than twenty were made (E) he copies more than twenty of them first 604.Repelled by bodily punishments such as maiming and branding, the idea of penitentiaries were reforms of the penal system by Quakers. 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(A) their use as additives is (B) as additives, their use is (C) the use of such additives is (D) the use of such additives are (E) the use of them as additives is 613.Sales of United States manufactured goods to nonindustrialized countries rose to $167 billion in 1992, which is 14 percent more than the previous year and largely offsets weak demand from Europe and Japan. (A) which is 14 percent more than the previous year (B) which is 14 percent higher than it was the previous year (C) 14 percent higher than the previous year’s figure (D) an amount that is 14 percent more than the previous year was (E) an amount that is 14 percent higher than the previous year’s figure 614.Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nile delta and the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. (A) that flourished at the same time as the civilizations (B) that had flourished at the same time as had the civilizations (C) that flourished at the same time those had (D) flourishing at the same time as those did (E) flourishing at the same time as those were 615.Samuel Sewall viewed marriage, as other seventeenth-century colonists, like a property arrangement rather than an emotional bond based on romantic love. (A) Samuel Sewall viewed marriage, as other seventeenth-century colonists, like a property arrangement rather than (B) As did other seventeenth-century colonists, Samuel Sewall viewed marriage to be a property arrangement rather than viewing it as (C) Samuel Sewall viewed marriage to be a property arrangement, like other seventeenth-century colonists, rather than viewing it as (D) Marriage to Samuel Sewall, like other seventeenth-century colonists, was viewed as a property arrangement rather than (E) Samuel Sewall, like other seventeenth-century colonists, viewed marriage as a property arrangement rather than 616.Sartre believed each individual is responsible to choose one course of action over another one, that it is the choice that gives value to the act, and that nothing that is not acted upon has value. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 159 (A) each individual is responsible to choose one course of action over another one (B) that each individual is responsible for choosing one course of action over another (C) that each individual is responsible, choosing one course of action over another (D) that each individual is responsible to choose one course of action over the other (E) each individual is responsible for choosing one course of action over other ones 617.School desegregation has worked well in Buffalo, New York, in part because parents and teachers were given major roles in designing the city’s magnet schools, because extra federal funds were allocated to make each school unique, and because the federal judge enforced desegregation orders. (A) because extra federal funds were allocated to make each school unique (B) because of the allocation of extra federal funds that make each school unique (C) because each school is made unique by allocating it extra federal funds (D) extra federal funds were allocated in order to make each school unique (E) extra federal funds were allocated for making each school unique 618.School integration plans that involve busing between suburban and central-city areas have contributed, according to a recent study, to significant increases in housing integration, which, in turn, reduces any future need for busing. 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