SC's Question number - 753 , 754

753). The filibuster, a parliamentary device that slows the snail’s pace that prevails even in the best of times in congressional sessions and tests the endurance of everyone associated with it, seems more and more an anachronism in the age of telecommunications.

(A) sessions and tests the endurance of everyone associated with it, seems

(B) sessions and tests the endurance of everyone who is associated with it, seeming to be

(C) sessions, tests the endurance of everyone associated with it, seems

(D) sessions, that tests the endurance of everyone associated with it and seems

(E) sessions, testing the endurance of everyone associated with it and seeming

754). The financial crash of October 1987 demonstrated that the world’s capital markets are integrated more closely than never before and events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the rest of the village—almost instantaneously.

(A) integrated more closely than never before and

(B) closely integrated more than ever before so

(C) more closely integrated as never before while

(D) more closely integrated than ever before and that

(E) more than ever before closely integrated as


Answers:

753). OA - A - The filibuster, ....that slows A and tests B, seems.....

B, E - incorrect - seeming to be/ seeming

C - incorrect - requires the conjunction and

D - incorrect - wrongly suggests that congressional sessions tests the endurance of everyone

754). (OG 10th Ques no - 98) - OA - D
OE: Choice D, the best answer, produces a clear sentence in which parallel structure (two clauses introduced by that) underscores meaning: the crash demonstrated [1] that markets are integrated and [2] that events may be transmitted. The other choices lack this parallel structure and contain additional faults.

A, C - incorrect - the phrases more...than never in A and more ... as never in C are both unidiomatic: the idiom is more than ever.

B, C, E - incorrect - end with so, while, and as, respectively: and that is needed so that two parallel clauses may be properly joined.

B, E - incorrect - misplace the adverb more, which here should come just before closely: closer, not more frequent, integration of the world's capital markets is what facilitates the transmission of economic events.