Real Gmat 7 pot

A between bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields to B among bonds and stocks on comparisons of bond yields to C between bonds and stocks on comparisons of bond yields with D among bon

(A) between bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields to

(B) among bonds and stocks on comparisons of bond yields to

(C) between bonds and stocks on comparisons of bond yields with

(D) among bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields and

(E) between bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields with

498.Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries

(A) Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries (B) Chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with many hundreds of monasteries

(C) Hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, are dotting the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia

(D) The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of which are chiseled from solid rock centuries ago (E) The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago

499.Many policy experts say that shifting a portion of health-benefit costs back to the workers helps to control the employer’s costs, but also helps to limit medical spending by making patients more careful consumers

(A) helps to control the employer’s costs, but also helps

(B) helps the control of the employer’s costs, and also

(C) not only helps to control the employer’s costs, but also helps

(D) helps to control not only the employer’s costs, but

(E) not only helps to control the employer’s costs, and also helps

500.Many psychologists and sociologists now contend that the deliberate and even brutal aggression integral to some forms of competitive athletics increase the likelihood of imitative violence that erupts among crowds of spectators

dominated by young adult males

(A) increase the likelihood of imitative violence that erupts

(B) increase the likelihood that there will be an eruption of imitative violence (C) increase the likelihood of imitative violence erupting

(D) increases the likelihood for imitative violence to erupt

(E) increases the likelihood that imitative violence will erupt

501.Many scholars regard the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru as the most

impressive in South America

(A) regard the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru as

(B) regard the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru to be

(C) regard the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru to have been

(D) consider that the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru are

(E) consider the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Peru as

502.Many writers of modern English have acquired careless habits that damage the clarity of their prose, but these habits can be broken if they are willing to take the necessary trouble

(A) but these habits can be broken

(B) but these habits are breakable

(C) but they can break these habits

(D) which can be broken

(E) except that can be broken

503.Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house

(A) whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries

embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house

(B) whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are

embellished with old and new iconography, and their style is varying among women and houses

(C) whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are

embellished with old and new iconography, and they are in styles that vary from woman to woman and house to house

(D) with murals brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography, and their style varies among women and houses

(E) with murals that are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries

embellished with old and new iconography, and their styles vary among women and houses

504.Marketing researchers have found that, because many residents of the Southeast

do not share the same ethnic heritage as Northeasterners, the two varieties of commercially prepared coleslaw most popular in New York City and Boston are virtually ignored by consumers in Richmond and Raleigh

(A) because many residents of the Southeast do not share the same ethnic heritage

as

(B) because many residents of the Southeast do not share the same ethnic heritage with

(C) because many residents of the Southeast do not have the same ethnic heritage

as

(D) due to many residents of the Southeast not sharing the same ethnic heritage with

(E) whereas many residents of the Southeast do not share the same ethnic heritage

as

505.Migraine, the most debilitating common form of headache, afflicts perhaps 18 million Americans, who collectively lose 64 million workdays a year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost work time

(A) year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

(B) year and thus cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

(C) year, so as to cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

(D) year that costs the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and

(E) year, which thus cost the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and 506.Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight states that still has a sizable wolf population, and where this predator remains the archenemy of cattle and sheep

(A) that still has a sizable wolf population, and where

(B) that still has a sizable wolf population, where

(C) that still has a sizable population of wolves, and where

(D) where the population of wolves is still sizable;

(E) where there is still a sizable population of wolves and where

507.Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as

an ethnographic treatise

(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as

(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if

(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as

(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as

(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

508.Monitoring heart patients’ exercise, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines

(A) Monitoring heart patients’ exercise, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines

(B) Monitoring the exercise of heart patients, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines

(C) Small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby

recording machines are now used to monitor the exercise of both heart

patients and athletes

(D) Broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines, small transmitters are now used to monitor heart patients’ exercise, as well

as athletes exercising

(E) Both athletes exercising and heart patients’ exercise are now monitored by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby

recording machines

509.More ancient Egyptian temples were constructed in the reign of Ramses II as in any other

(A) as in any other

(B) as any other

(C) as in others

(D) than others

(E) than in any other

510.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

511.More than ever, paper is expected to be recycled this year, due to new mandatory recycling laws in municipalities across the nation

(A) More than ever, paper is expected to be recycled this year

(B) It is expected that more paper than ever will be recycled this year than

previously and that is

(C) The paper expected to be recycled this year is more than ever

(D) The amount of paper that will be recycled this year is expected to be greater than ever

(E) A great increase in the amount of paper that will be recycled this year is 512.More than five thousand years ago, Chinese scholars accurately described the flow of blood as a continuous circle controlled by the heart, but it went unnoticed

in the West

(A) but it went

(B) but it was

(C) although it was

(D) but the discovery went

(E) although the discovery was

513.More than thirty years ago Dr Barbara Mc-Clintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can “jump,” as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace

to another

(A) as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another

(B) like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another

(C) as pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others

(D) like pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others

(E) as do pearls that move mysteriously from one necklace to some other one 514.Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value

of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues

(A) are included in earnings, than

(B) are included in earnings, as

(C) is included in earnings, than they pay

(D) is included in earnings, as is paid

(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

515.Most energy analysts now agree that the costs of building and maintaining

nuclear reactors are too high for nuclear power to likely prove cheaper than coal

or oil in the long run

(A) too high for nuclear power to likely

(B) high enough for nuclear power to be unlikely to

(C) high enough that it is unlikely nuclear power will

(D) so high that nuclear power is unlikely to

(E) so high as to be unlikely that nuclear power will

516.Most large companies prefer customized computer software because it can be molded to fit the way a company does business, when off-the-shelf software often requires the company to alter its procedures to fit the software

(A) when

(B) since

(C) whereas

(D) because

(E) insofar as

517.Most nations regard their airspace as extending upward as high as an aircraft can fly; no specific altitude, however, has been officially recognized as a boundary (A) as extending

(B) as the extent

(C) to be an extent

(D) to be an extension

(E) to extend

518.Most North Carolina ski resorts broadcast music onto the slopes; skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes, there are no slopes without music

(A) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes, there are

(B) because skiers can choose hard rock, soft pop, or “beautiful music,” there are (C) however, skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, “beautiful music,” and (D) although skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes, there are

(E) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, “beautiful music” slopes, but 519.Most primates are immune to feline rhinovirus, but a specific group, this being the golden macaques, are highly susceptible to the organism

(A) a specific group, this being the golden macaques, are highly susceptible to (B) a specific group, the golden macaques, is highly susceptible to

(C) one group, specifically golden macaques, is highly susceptible of

(D) a specific group, the golden macaques, which are highly susceptible to

(E) a specific group, the golden macaques, which are highly susceptible of

520.Most state constitutions now mandate that the state budget be balanced each year (A) mandate that the state budget be balanced

(B) mandate the state budget to be balanced

(C) mandate that the state budget will be balanced

(D) have a mandate for a balanced state budget

(E) have a mandate to balance the state budget

521.Most teen-agers who work for pay hold jobs that require few skills, little

responsibility, and also no hope for career advancement

(A) little responsibility, and also

(B) little responsibility, and with

(C) little responsibility, and offer

(D) carry little responsibility, and

(E) carry little responsibility, and offer

522.Most victims of infectious mononucleosis recover after a few weeks of

listlessness, but an unlucky few may suffer for years

(A) but an unlucky few may suffer