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Directions (1-15): In each of the following sentences, five options are given. You are required to identify the best way of writing the BOLD part in the given sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. Option A repeats the question sentence, if the given sentence is correct as it is. Then, choose option A as correct answer choice.
Q1. Unlike the original National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum, encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece.
(a) exhibit, which thereby activates
(b) exhibit, in turn an activation of
(c) exhibit, and it will activate
(d) exhibit and thereby activate
(e) exhibit which, as a result, activates
Q2. More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.
(a) to greater economic development and investing
(b) to greater development economically and investing
(c) of greater economic development and invest
(d) of greater development, economically and invest
(e) for greater economic development and the investment of
Q3. Combining enormous physical strength with higher intelligence, the Neanderthals appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path, but their relatively sudden disappearance during the Paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.
(a) appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,
(b) appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path,
(c) appear as equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their paths,
(d) appeared as equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their paths,
(e) appeared to have been equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,
Q4. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
(a) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
(b) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
(c) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump
(d) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump
(e) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities
Q5. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed.
(a) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are
(b) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one once their horns are
(c) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns have been
(d) if tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns are
(e) if tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one after the animals’ horns have been