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- 1. Spending large sums of money in every store, he then found himself out
- of cash.
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- He spent large sums of money in every store _______ himself out of cash.
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- (A) in order to find
- (B) and would have found
- (C) and as a result
- (D) for which he found
- (E) and then found
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- (E) He spent large sums in every store and then found himself out of cash.
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- 2. At this time, kick your feet in the water in the way that Gregory just
- did.
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- Now kick your feet in the water _______.
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- (A) like Gregory just done
- (B) just like Gregory did
- (C) like Gregory just did
- (D) just as Gregory did
- (E) as Gregory just did
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- (E) Now kick your feet in the water as Gregory just did.
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- 3. Here in our building, there are many elderly people.
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- There are many elderly people _______.
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- (A) in this here building
- (B) here in our building
- (C) in our many buildings here
- (D) in our building
- (E) which are here in our building
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- (B) There are many elderly people here in our building.
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- 4. Blame could not be attached to either the diplomats or our president
- for the fiasco.
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- Neither the diplomats _______ for the fiasco.
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- (A) or our president was to blame
- (B) nor our president were to blame
- (C) or our president were to blame
- (D) nor our president was to blame
- (E) and our president was to blame
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- (D) Neither the diplomats nor our president was to blame for the fiasco.
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- 5. Life is essentially happy, even though there are certainly at times
- moments of great sadness.
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- There are certainly at times moments of great _______ life is
- essentially happy.
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- (A) sadness; although
- (B) sadness, even though
- (C) essential sadness
- (D) sadness essentially
- (E) sadness. Even though
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- (B) There are certainly at times moments of great sadness, even though life is
- essentially happy.
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- 6. He liked swimming, and he also liked playing tennis.
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- He liked to swim and _______.
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- (A) playing tennis
- (B) to play tennis
- (C) he likes to play tennis
- (D) he likes playing tennis
- (E) to also play tennis
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- (B) He liked to swim and to play tennis.
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- 7. Every one of the instructors was given his complete registration guide
- package.
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- All of the instructors _______ complete registration guide packages.
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- (A) would be given his
- (B) were given his
- (C) was given their
- (D) were given their
- (E) should have been given their
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- (D) All of the instructors were given their complete registration guide
- packages.
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- 8. "Try to be patient, considering we can only help one of you at a
- time," the nurse called into the room.
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- "Try to be patient, since _______ at a time," the nurse called into the
- room.
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- (A) we can help but one of you
- (B) we can't help but one of you
- (C) we can't only help one of you
- (D) we can't only but help one of you
- (E) we can't help one of you
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- (A) "Try to be patient, since we can help but one of you at a time," the
- nurse called into the room.
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