SC's Question number - 695 , 696

695). The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970’s, rising from $114 to $220, yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their pay may buy.

(A) with a decrease in what their pay may buy

(B) with what was a decrease in what they were able to buy

(C) having decreased that which they could buy

(D) decreasing in purchasing power

(E) with a decrease in purchasing power

696). The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system.

(A) aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving

(B) aimed at the decreasing of operating costs and to improve

(C) aiming at the decreasing of operating costs and improving

(D) the aim of which is the decreasing of operating costs and improving

(E) with the aim to decrease operating costs and to improve


Answers:

695). OA - E

A - incorrect - pronoun error - ..the average worker...their..

B, C - incorrect - pronoun error - ..the average worker....

D - incorrect - awkward

696). (OG 10th - Ques no 212) - OA - A
OE: The best choice, A, offers an adjective phrase unequivocally modifying policy and exhibiting grammatical parallelism (decreasing ... and improving).

B, - incorrect - gerund the decreasing is not grammatically parallel with the infinitive to improve.

C, D - incorrect - the decreasing of... costs is not parallel with improving the efficiency.

E - incorrect - infinitives to decrease and to improve, while parallel, are less idiomatic than the prepositional phrase of decreasing ... and improving in modifying the noun aim. Also, with the aim...improve can easily be construed as referring to the Baldrick Manufacturing Company and so does not refer
unequivocally to policy.

SC's Question number - 697 , 698

697). The bank acknowledged that they are and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts to deal with the precipitous fall of the dollar against the yen and the dislocations reflected in the stock market decline.

(A) they are and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts

(B) they are and will continue to experience difficulties as they attempt

(C) it is and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts

(D) it is experiencing and will continue to experience difficulties as they make an attempt

(E) its difficulties are likely to continue as it attempts

698). The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due.

(A) they do not expect payments when

(B) it does not expect payments when it is

(C) it does not expect payments to be made when they are

(D) payments are not to be expected to be paid when

(E) payments are not expected to be paid when they will be


Answers:

697). OA - E

A, B, D - incorrect - pronoun error - ..bank(singular)....they(plural)..

C - incorrect - wordy, awkward - ... acknowledged that it is and will continue to experience...

698). OA - C

A - incorrect - pronoun error - ..bank(singular)....they(plural)

B - incorrect - pronoun error - ..payments(plural)....it(singular)..

D - incorrect - awkward - are not to be expected to be

E - incorrect - awkward, wrong tense

SC's Question number - 699 , 700

699). The black hole has entered the popular imagination as an object too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its gravitational pull.

(A) too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its

(B) too massive for either allowing light or matter to escape its

(C) massive enough that either light or matter cannot escape their

(D) so massive that neither light nor matter could escape their

(E) so massive that neither light nor matter can escape

700). The boom in agricultural exports in the early 1970’s emptied United States grain bins and many were led to thinking that overproduction was now a problem of the past.

(A) many were led to thinking that overproduction was now

(B) many had been led to thinking of overproduction as if it were

(C) the thought this led to was that overproduction had become

(D) led many to the thought of overproduction as if it were

(E) led many to think that overproduction had become


Answers:

699). OA - E - idiomatic - ..so .. ..that..

A, B - incorrect - unidiomatic - too massive that

C, D - incorrect - subject verb agreement - ... black hole(singular)..their(plural)..

700). OA - E - parallel - ....exports in the early 1970’s emptied United States...and led many to think ...

A, B, C - incorrect - violating parallelism

D - incorrect - awkward