As a pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of learned subjects, among the most gifted and versatile musicians of his time was Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) who was, as many of his contemporaries were, deeply interested in Oriental themes.
A: As a pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of learned subjects, among the most gifted and versatile musicians of his time was Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), who was
B: As a pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of earned subjects, Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) was among the most gifted and versatile musicians of his time, and having been
C: Pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of learned subjects, among the most gifted and versatile musicians of his time was Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), and he was
D: Pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of learned subjects, Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) was among the most gifted and versatile musicians of his time, and was
E: Pianist, composer, scholar, and essayist on a variety of learned subjects, Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), who was, among the musicians of his time, one of the most gifted and versatile, had been (D)
11: Cash flows to stock and bond mutual funds have gained strength in the last two months, but fund managers have not been eager to invest the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash levels in their portfolios at the highest level in six months (?).
A: have not been eager to invest the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash levels in their portfolios at
B: have not been eager to invest the new money, instead preferring to raise the cash levels in their portfolios to
C: have not been eager at investing the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash levels in thief portfolios to
D: were not eager to invest the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash levels the cash levels in their portfolios at
E: were not eager at investing the new money, instead preferring to raise the cash levels in their portfolios to (B)
13: Dolphins lack vocal cords, nevertheless creating sounds: a complicated system of whistles, Squeaks, moans, trills, and clicks are produced by sphincter muscles inside the blowhole.
A: nevertheless creating sounds: a complicated system of whistles, squeaks, moans, trills, and clicks are produced by
B: nevertheless creating sounds: they produce a complicated system of whistles, squeaks, moans, trills, and clicks with
C: but they do create sounds, producing a complicated system of whistles, squeaks, moans, trills, and clicks being produced
D: but they do create sounds, a complicated system of whistles, squeaks, moans, trills, and clicks being produced
E: but nevertheless creating sounds: a complicated system of whistles, squeaks, moans, trills, and clicks produced by (E)
Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
A: rather than burning calories to generate it
B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories
C: and not from generating it by burning calories
D: instead of by burning calories for generating it
E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories (D)
18: According to a recent survey of municipal services, the city’s streets could be cleaner, its fire code be better enforced, and its crime rate reduced if the current administration improved its management practices.
A: be better enforced, and its crime rate reduced
B: better enforced, and its crime rate reduced
C: could be better enforced, and it could reduce its crime rate
D: better enforced, and its crime rate could reduce
E: could be better enforced, and its crime rate reduce (B)
24: The proposed budget includes more than $1 billion in cuts that will shrink the police department through attrition, have halted some ambulance shifts, and have suspended plastic and glass recycling.
A: have halted some ambulance shifts, and have suspended
B: along with halts in some ambulance shifts, and suspending
C: as well as halted some ambulance shifts, and suspend
D: halt some ambulance shifts, and suspending
E: halt some ambulance shirts, and suspend (E)
25: Most European countries offer a variety of programs for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize public nurseries and kindergartens.
A: for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize
B: for the assistance of working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, also financial allowances for families with children, and subsidizing
C: in order to assist working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and to subsidize
D: to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they also subsidize
E: to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized (E)
27: Problems at a California securities firm rippled through the penny-stock market, forcing at least one Florida brokerage firm to stop trading, and it sent the shares of several small companies tumbling.
A: forcing at least one Florida brokerage firm to stop trading, and it sent
B: forcing at least one Florida brokerage firm to stop trading and sending
C: forced at least one Florida brokerage firm to stop trading and sending
D: with at least one Florida brokerage firm forced to stop trading and sending
E: at least one Florida brokerage firm was forced to stop trading, and it sent (B)
28: Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-nuke-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.
A: has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is
B: has been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus
C: have been dated to be 3.47billion years old and thus are
D: have been dated as being 3.47 billion years old and thus
E: have been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are (C)
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