SC's Question number - 845 , 846

845). The utility company has announced that it will permanently close its Unit I nuclear power plant, the first plant that had been built by private industry and the model for a generation of modern nuclear reactors.

(A) that had been built by private industry and

(B) built by private industry and which was

(C) to be built by private industry and which was

(D) built by private industry and

(E) to have been built by private industry and was

846). The visiting pharmacologists concluded that the present amalgam of Chinese and Western medicine is probably as good, or better than, any system that might be devised for the patients who are treated at the Nan Kai hospital in Tian-jing.

(A) as good, or better than, any system that might be devised for the patients who are

(B) as good, or better, than any system that might be devised for patients being

(C) as good, or better than, any system that might be devised for patients which are being

(D) good as, or even better than, any other system that may be devised for the patients who are

(E) as good as, or better than, any other system that might be devised for the patients

Answers:

845). OA - D

A - incorrect - use of past perfect tense had been is wrong..(simple past tense is not present)

B, C - incorrect - use of was suggests that the plant is no longer a model for nuclear reactors.Also use of which is wrong

E - incorrect - present perfect continuous tense have been is wrong...illogically suggests that the private industry started building the plant in the past and is still building it

846). OA - E - idiomatic - as...as

A,B, C, D - incorrect - unidiomatic