1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 75 (B) Even though its per capita food supply has hardly increased in (C) Despite its per capita food supply hardly increasing over (D) Despite there being hardly any increase in its per capita food supply during (E) Although there is hardly any increase in per capita food supply for 284.Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounts to a sum lower than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays major role in health-care inflation. (A) amounts to a sum lower (B) amounts to less (C) amounted to less (D) amounted to lower (E) amounted to a lower sum 285.Even though the state has spent ten years and seven million dollars planning a reservoir along the Ubi River, the project will have to be abandoned as a result of the river becoming so heavily polluted. (A) will have to be abandoned as a result of the river becoming so heavily polluted (B) is to be abandoned on account of the heavy pollution which the river received (C) had to be abandoned because the river had received such heavy pollution (D) has to be abandoned because of the river and its heavy pollution (E) must be abandoned because the river has become so heavily polluted 286.Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease. (A) its victims unless inoculated (B) its victims unless they are inoculated (C) its victims unless inoculation is done (D) the victims unless there is an inoculation (E) the victims unless inoculated 287.Everyone participating in the early sociological study committed a crucial methodological error by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their data. (A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their (B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their (C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their (D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the (E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her 288.Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 76 Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion. (A) Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged (B) Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it (C) Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself (D) Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged (E) With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself 289.Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of more than $100 billion a year. (A) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of (B) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business (C) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of (D) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costing business (E) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costs business 290.Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups. (A) proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize (B) proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and for subsidizing (C) proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize (D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions, and to subsidize (E) was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions and for the subsidization 291.Factory outlet stores, operated by manufacturers, are usually located miles from 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 77 downtown and regional shopping centers so as not directly to be competitive against department stores in the same trading area. (A) so as not directly to be competitive against (B) in order for them not to have direct competition with (C) so that they do not compete directly with (D) in order that they are not directly competitive against (E) for the purpose of not competing directly with 292.Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and are suspicious of strangers. (A) the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and are (B) local witnesses to be difficult to locate, reticent, and are (C) that local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and (D) local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are (E) that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are 293.Federal incentives now encourage investing capital in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high and no demand for new construction. (A) investing capital in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high and (B) capital investment in commercial office buildings, even though vacancy rates in existing structures are exceptionally high and there is (C) capital to be invested in commercial office buildings even though there are exceptionally high vacancy rates in existing structures with (D) investing capital in commercial office buildings even though the vacancy rates are exceptionally high in existing structures with (E) capital investment in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high, and although there is 294.Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damaged by toxic chemicals permits compensating state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not allow claims for injury to people. (A) compensating state governments for damage to (B) compensating state governments for the damaging of (C) giving state governments compensation for damaging (D) giving compensation to state governments for the damage of (E) the giving of compensation to state governments for damaging 295.Federally imposed restrictions on how much they may pay small savers has made difficulties for savings banks as they are competing with such unregulated investment vehicles as money market certificates. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 78 (A) has made difficulties for savings banks as they are competing with such (B) has made difficulties for savings banks competing with such (C) have made difficulties for savings banks as they are competing with (D) have made it difficult for savings banks to compete with such (E) have made it difficult for savings banks as they are competing with such 296.Few people realize that the chance of accidental injury or death may be as great or greater in the “safety” of their own homes than in a plane or on the road. (A) may be as great or greater in the “safety” of their own homes than (B) is at least as great or greater in the “safety” of their own homes than (C) might be so great or greater in the “safety” of their own home as (D) may be at least as great in the “safety” of their own homes as (E) can be at least so great in the “safety” of their own home as 297.Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates go on to college, compared with Canada’s thirty-five percent and Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany’s fifteen percent. (A) Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates go on to college, compared with Canada’s thirty-five percent and Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany’s fifteen percent. (B) Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates go on to college; in Canada it is thirty-five percent and in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany it is fifteen percent. (C) In the United States, Fifty-two percent of high school graduates go on to college, compared with thirty-five percent in Canada and fifteen percent in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany. (D) The percentage of high school graduates in the United States who go on to college is fifty-two, compared with Canada’s thirty-five percent, Great Britain’s fifteen, Japan’s fifteen, and West Germany’s fifteen. (E) The percentage of United States high school graduates going on to college is fifty-two that in Canada is thirty-five, and that in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany is fifteen. 298.Five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in western Scotland this summer, bringing to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from Norway began in 1975. (A) bringing (B) and brings (C) and it brings (D) and it brought (E) and brought 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 79 299.Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of them in high-paying fields like electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than ten years ago. (A) high-paying fields like electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than (B) high-paying fields like electronics and banking, and making the state’s economy far more diversified than its economy (C) high-paying fields such as electronics and banking, to make the state’s economy far more diversified than (D) such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than it was (E) such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, and make the state’s economy far more diversified than it was 300.Following the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, investigators concluded that many key people employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its contractors work an excessive amount of overtime that has the potential of causing errors in judgment. (A) overtime that has the potential of causing (B) overtime that has the potential to cause (C) overtime that potentially can cause (D) overtime, a practice that has the potential for causing (E) overtime, a practice that can, potentially, cause 301.Following the nutrition board’s advice on salt consumption would mean a virtual end of the use of salt in cooking, an avoidance of obviously salty foods, and reducing the reliance on processed foods that contain significant amounts of often hidden sodium. (A) reducing the reliance on processed foods that contain significant amounts of often hidden sodium (B) reducing the reliance on processed foods containing often hidden but significant amounts of sodium (C) a reduction of the reliance on processed foods, containing as they do often hidden sodium in significant amounts (D) a reduced reliance on the significant amounts of hidden sodium often contained in processed foods (E) a reduced reliance on processed foods that contain significant but often hidden amounts of sodium 302.For all his professed disdain of such activities , Auden was an inveterate literary gossip. (A) For all his professed disdain of such activities 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 80 (B) Having always professed disdain for such activities (C) All such activities were, he professed, disdained, and (D) Professing that all such activities were disdained (E) In spite of professions of disdaining all such activities 303.For almost a hundred years after having its beginning in 1788 , England exiled some 160,000 criminals to Australia. (A) For almost a hundred years after having its beginning in 1788 (B) Beginning in 1788 for a period of a hundred years (C) Beginning a period of almost a hundred years, in 1788 (D) During a hundred years, a period beginning in 1788 (E) Over a period of a hundred years beginning in 1788 304.For many people, household labor remains demanding even if able to afford household appliances their grandparents would find a miracle. (A) even if able to afford household appliances their grandparents would find a miracle (B) despite being able to afford household appliances their grandparents would find a miracle (C) even if they can afford household appliances their grandparents would have found miraculous (D) although they could afford household appliances their grandparents would find miraculous (E) even if they are able to afford household appliances which would have been a miracle to their grandparents 305.For many travelers, charter vacations often turn out to cost considerably more than they originally seemed . (A) they originally seemed (B) they originally seem to (C) they seemingly would cost originally (D) it seemed originally (E) it originally seemed they would 306.For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears. (A) a method to protect (B) as a method protecting (C) protecting (D) as a protection of . the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 76 Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced. its heavy pollution (E) must be abandoned because the river has become so heavily polluted 2 86. Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 75 (B) Even