1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 65 (A) should a significant number of these debts be repudiated, is (B) should a significant number of these debts be repudiated, are (C) should they repudiate a significant number of these debts, are (D) if there is a repudiation of a significant number of these debts, would be (E) if a significant number of these debts will be repudiated, is 244.Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads. (A) dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads (B) dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do (C) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do (D) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads (E) to maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads 245.Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library assistants. (A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have (B) paid in occupations that are predominantly make over those that are predominantly female have (C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have (D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has (E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has 246.Displays of the aurora borealis, or “northern lights,” can heat the atmosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines. (A) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce (B) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induce (C) that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces (D) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected and induces (E) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce 247.Distinguished architecture requires the expenditure of large sums of money, even if it is by no means certain that the expenditure of large sums of money produce distinguished architecture. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 66 (A) even if it is by no means certain that the expenditure of large sums of money produce (B) even if it is by no means certain that the expenditure of large sums of money will produce (C) even though there is no certainty that the expenditure of money in large sums produces (D) even though it is by no means certain that the expenditure of large sums of money produces (E) though there is no certainty as to the expenditure of money in large sums producing 248.Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol consumption not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate genetic predispositions toward certain diseases. (A) not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate (B) do damage by themselves but also are aggravating to (C) are damaging by themselves but also are aggravating (D) not only do damage by themselves, they are also aggravating to (E) are doing damage by themselves, and they are also aggravating 249.Doctors still know little about how the Listeria bacterium is spread and why the disease it causes, listeriosis, afflicts some people in a contaminated area though it spares many others. (A) though it spares (B) where it spares (C) despite sparing (D) when sparing (E) while sparing 250.Domestic automobile manufacturers have invested millions of dollars into research to develop cars more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road. (A) into research to develop cars more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road (B) into research for developing even more gasoline-efficient cars on the road than at present (C) for research for cars to be developed that are more gasoline-efficient even than presently on the road (D) in research to develop cars even more gasoline-efficient than those at present on the road (E) in research for developing cars that are even more gasoline-efficient than presently on the road 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 67 251.Downzoning, zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist . (A) little water or services exist (B) little water or services exists (C) few services and little water exists (D) there is little water or services available (E) there are few services and little available water 252.Dr. Hakuta’s research among Hispanic children in the United States indicates that the more the children use both Spanish and English, their intellectual advantage is greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic. (A) their intellectual advantage is greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic (B) their intellectual advantage is the greater in skills underlaying reading ability and nonverbal logic (C) the greater their intellectual advantage in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic (D) in skills that underlay reading ability and nonverbal logic, their intellectual advantage is the greater (E) in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic, the greater intellectual advantage is theirs 253.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 in order 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 254.Dr. Sayre’s lecture recounted several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have popular support. (A) relations between nations that illustrates (B) relation of one nation with another that illustrates 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 68 (C) relations between nations that illustrate (D) relation of one nation with another and illustrate (E) relations of nations that illustrates 255.Dr. Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the body can constantly change its genes to fashion a seeming unlimited number of antibodies, each specifically targeted at an invading microbe or foreign substance. (A) seeming unlimited number of antibodies, each specifically targeted at (B) seeming unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically to (C) seeming unlimited number of antibodies, all specifically targeted at (D) seemingly unlimited number of antibodies, all of them targeted specifically to (E) seemingly unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically at 256.During an era when interracial tensions in the United States have run high , Rosa Parks became a quiet, unassuming symbol of the continued struggle for human dignity. (A) have run high (B) ran high (C) had run highly (D) run high (E) were running highly 257.During an ice age, the buildup of ice at the poles and the drop in water levels near the equator speed up the Earth’s rotation, like a spinning figure skater whose speed increases when her arms are drawn in. (A) like a spinning figure skater whose speed increases when her arms are drawn in (B) like the increased speed of a figure skater when her arms are drawn in (C) like a figure skater who increases speed while spinning with her arms drawn in (D) just as a spinning figure skater who increases speed by drawing in her arms (E) just as a spinning figure skater increases speed by drawing in her arms 258.During her lecture the speaker used map to clarify directional terms, for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable that winds are designated by the direction from which they come. (A) or not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable (B) for everyone in attendance did not know (C) with everyone in attendance not knowing (D) with everyone attending not knowledgeable (E) for not everyone attending knew 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 69 259.During Roosevelt’s years in office Black Americans began voting for Democrats rather than Republicans in national elections, but Black support for Democrats at the state and local levels developed only after when civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman. (A) developed only after when civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman (B) developed only after when Harry Truman supported civil rights legislation (C) developed only after Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation (D) develops only at the time after the supporting of civil rights legislation by Harry Truman (E) developed only after there being Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation 260.During the 1980’s approximately $50 billion in private investment capital is estimated to have left Mexico and added to the strain on the country’s debt-ridden economy. (A) During the 1980’s approximately $50 billion in private investment capital is estimated to have left Mexico and added (B) During the 1980’s it is estimated that approximately $50 billion in private investment capital left Mexico and added (C) It is estimated that there was approximately $50 billion in private investment capital that left Mexico during the 1980’s and added (D) It is estimated that during the 1980’s approximately $50 billion in private investment capital left Mexico, adding (E) Approximately $50 billion in private investment capital is estimated as having left Mexico during the 1980’s, adding 261.During the 1980s it became clear that soliciting private funds was far more efficient for environmentalists who sought financial aid than to go to state or federal agencies. (A) that soliciting private funds was far more efficient for environmentalists who sought financial aid (B) that for environmentalists who sought financial aid, it was far more efficient to solicit private funds (C) that for environmentalists seeking financial aid, private organizations were far more efficient to go to (D) for environmentalists seeking financial aid, going to private organizations was far more efficient (E) for environmentalists who sought financial aid, private organizations were far more efficient 262.During the early years of European settlement on a continent that was viewed as “wilderness” by the newcomers, Native Americans, intimately knowing the 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 70 ecology of the land, were a help in the rescuing of many Pilgrims and pioneers from hardship, or even death. (A) Native Americans, intimately knowing the ecology of the land, were a help in the rescuing of (B) Native Americans knew the ecology and the land intimately and this enabled them to help in the rescue of (C) Native Americans, with their intimate knowledge of the ecology of the land, helped to rescue (D) having intimate knowledge of the ecology of the land, Native Americans helped the rescue of (E) knowing intimately the ecology of the land, Native Americans helped to rescue 263.During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold. (A) funding for instructional material, never were (B) funding for instructional material, never was (C) funding, the instructional material, was never (D) funding for instructional material, the products were never (E) funding, they were never 264.During the first one hundred fifty years of the existence of this republic, no one expected the press was fair; newspapers were mostly shrill, scurrilous, and partisan. (A) was (B) to be (C) of being (D) should be (E) had to be 265.During the first year after the corporate reorganization, no one considered the management was well-organized ; managers were largely untrained and directionless. (A) was well-organized (B) well-organized (C) were well-organized (D) seemed to be well-organized (E) seemed well-organized 266.During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933. . number of these debts, would be (E) if a significant number of these debts will be repudiated, is 244 .Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships. produces (E) though there is no certainty as to the expenditure of money in large sums producing 248 .Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats,. they are also aggravating to (E) are doing damage by themselves, and they are also aggravating 249 .Doctors still know little about how the Listeria bacterium is spread and why the disease it causes,