SC TEST (45 MINUTES)

Ques 1) Cash flows to stock and bond mutual funds have gained strength in the last two
months, but fund managers have not been eager to invest the new money, instead of preferring
to raise the cash levels in their portfolios at the highest level in six months.

(A) have not been eager to invest the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash levels
in their portfolios at

(B) have not been eager to invest the new money, instead preferring to raise the cash levels in
their portfolios to

(C) have not been eager at investing the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash
levels in thief portfolios to

(D) were not eager to invest the new money, instead of preferring to raise the cash levels the
cash levels in their portfolios at

(E) were not eager at investing the new money, instead preferring to raise the cash levels in
their portfolios to

Ques 2) According to a recent study of consumer spending on prescription medications,

increases in the sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily accounts for almost half
of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came from sales
of the 9,850 prescription medicines that companies did not advertise or advertised very little.

(A) heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the
remainder of which came

(B) heavily were what accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending
last year; the remainder of the increase coming

(C) heavily accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the
remainder of the increase coming

(D) heavily, accounting for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year,
while the remainder of the increase came

(E) heavily, which accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last
year, with the remainder of it coming
Ques 3) Many kitchens today are equipped with high-speed electrical gadgets, such as blenders
and food processors, which are able to inflict as serious injuries as those caused by an industrial
wood-planing machine.

(A) which are able to inflict as serious injuries as those

(B) which can inflict serious injuries such as those

(C) inflicting injuries as serious as that having been

(D) capable to inflict injuries as serious as that

(E) capable of inflicting injuries as serious as those

Ques 4) A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early
retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

(A) had elected early retirement rather than face

(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face

Ques5) The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian—vegetables,
fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, and meat rarely.

(A) and meat rarely

(B) and meat was rare
(C) with meat as rare
(D) meat a rarity
(E) with meat as a rarity
Ques 6) The new image of Stone Age people as systematic hunters of large animals, rather than
merely scavenging for meat, have emerged from the examination of tools found in Germany,
including three wooden spears that archaeologists believe to be about 400,000 years old.

(A) merely scavenging for meat, have emerged from the examination of tools found in Germany,
including

(B) as mere scavenging for meat, have emerged from examining tools found in Germany, which
include

(C) as mere meat scavengers, has emerged from examining tools found in Germany that
includes

(D) mere scavengers of meat, has emerged from the examination of tools found in Germany,
which includes

(E) mere scavengers of meat, has emerged from the examination of tools found in Germany,
including

Ques 7) In the mid-1970’s, since birds were overcome by pollution, and routinely falling from the
sky above Los Angeles freeways, this prompted officials in California to devise a plan that
reduced automobile emissions.

(A) since birds were overcome by pollution, and routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles
freeways, this prompted officials in California to devise a plan that reduced

(B) since birds that had been overcome by pollution were routinely falling from the sky above
Los Angeles freeways, it prompted officials in California to devise a plan that would reduce

(C) birds had been overcome by pollution and routinely fell from the sky above Los Angeles
freeways, prompting officials in California to devise a plan that reduced

(D) birds overcome by pollution routinely fell from the sky above Los Angeles freeways,
prompting officials in California to devise a plan to reduce

(E) birds overcome by pollution and routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles freeways
were prompting officials in California to devise a plan to reduce
Ques 8) The first commercially successful drama to depict Black family life sympathetically and
the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, it was Lorraine Hansberry’s A
Raisin in the Sun that won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1959, and was later
made into both a film and a musical.

A. it was Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun that won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle
Award in 1959, and was later made
B. in 1959 A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle
Award and was later made
C. Lorraine Hansberry won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for A Raisin in the Sun in
1959, and it was later made
D. Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun won the New York Drama Critics’Circle Award in 1959
and was later made
E. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in
1959, and later made it

Ques 9) Without adequate amounts of sleep, people's newly acquired skills and also new factual
information may not get properly encoded into their memory circuits.

A. Without adequate amounts of sleep, people's newly acquired skills and also

B. Without the adequate amount of sleep they need, people's newly acquired skills and even

C. If they do not have adequate amounts of sleep, people's newly acquired skills and even

D. If people do not get adequate amounts of sleep, newly acquired skills and even

E. If people do not get the adequate amount of sleep they need, newly acquired skills and also

Ques 11) In many nations, criminal law does not apply to corporations, but in the United Stated
today, a corporation commits a crime whenever one of its employees commits a crime, if the
employee acted within the scope of his or her authority and if the corporation benefited as a
result.

(A) a corporation commits a crime whenever one of its employees commits a crime, if the
employee acted

(B) a corporation is committing a crime whenever one of its employees committed a crime, if
those employees were acting

(C) corporations commit a crime whenever one of its employees does, on the condition that the
employee acts

D) corporations commit crimes whenever an employee of those corporations commit a crime, if it

was while acting

(E) the corporation whose employees commit a crime, commits a crime, whenever the employee
acted
Ques 12) Until Berta and Ernst Scharrer established the concept of neurosecretion in 1928,
scientists believed that either cells secreted hormones, which made them endocrine cells and
thus part of the endocrine system, or conducted electrical impulses, in which case they were
nerve cells and thus part of the nervous system.

a) either cells secreted hormones, which made them

b) either cells secreted hormones, making them

c) either cells secreted hormones and were

d) cells either secreted hormones, in which case they were

e) cells either secreted hormones, which made them

Ques 13) The bones of Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur that is a distant relative of
Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembles South American predatory dinosaurs, have been
discovered in Madagascar.

(A) The bones of Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur that is a distant relative of
Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembles South American predatory dinosaurs, have been
discovered in Madagascar.

(B) The bones of a meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, a distant relative of

Tyrannosaurus rex and with a close resemblance to South American predatory dinosaurs, has
been discovered in Madagascar.

(C) In Madagascar, the bones of a meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, distantly related
to Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembled South American predatory dinosaurs, have been
discovered.

(D) A distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, bearing a close resemblance to South American
predatory dinosaurs is Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur, the bones of which have
been discovered in Madagascar.

(E) A distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembling South American predatory
dinosaurs, the bones of a meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, have been discovered in
Madagascar.
Ques14) Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest rate target five
times, and because of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for
weeks that the target will be raised again in November.

(A) because of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that
the target will

(B) with the economy’s strength continuing, analysts predicted for weeks that the target

(C) because the economy continues strong, analysts predicted for weeks that the target would

(D) due to the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the
target

(E) due to the fact of the economy’s continued strength, analysts predicted for weeks that the
target will

Ques 15) Scientists have recently found evidence that black holes—regions of space in which
matter is so concentrated and the pull of gravity so powerful that nothing, not even light, can
emerge from them—probably exist at the core of nearly all galaxies and the mass of each black
hole is proportional to its host galaxy.

(A) exist at the core of nearly all galaxies and the mass of each black hole is proportional to

(B) exist at the core of nearly all galaxies and that the mass of each black hole is proportional to
that of

(C) exist at the core of nearly all galaxies, and that the mass of each black hole is proportional to

(D) exists at the core of nearly all galaxies, and that the mass of each black hole is proportional
to that of

(E) exists at the core of nearly all galaxies and the mass of each black hole is proportional to that
of
Ques 16) In June of 1987, The Bridge of Trinquetaille, Vincent van Gogh's view of an iron bridge
over the Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was the second highest price ever paid for a painting
at auction.

(A) Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was

(B) Rhone, which sold for $20.2 million, was

(C) Rhone, was sold for $20.2 million,

(D) Rhone was sold for $20.2 million, being

(E) Rhone, sold for $20.2 million, and was

Ques 17) In June of 1987, The Bridge of Trinquetaille, Vincent van Gogh's view of an iron bridge
over the Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was the second highest price ever paid for a painting
at auction.

(A) Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was

(B) Rhone, which sold for $20.2 million, was

(C) Rhone, was sold for $20.2 million,

(D) Rhone was sold for $20.2 million, being

(E) Rhone, sold for $20.2 million, and was

Ques 18) The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption
of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.

(A) The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of
Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.

(B) To the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote two letters, being the only
eyewitness accounts of the great eruption of Vesuvius.

(C) The only eyewitness account is in two letters by the nephew of Pliny the Elder writing to the
historian Tacitus an account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.

(D) Writing the only eyewitness account, Pliny the Elder’s nephew accounted for the great
eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.

(E) In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only
eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
Ques 19) Making things even more difficult has been general market inactivity lately, if not
paralysis, which has provided little in the way of pricing guidance.

(A) has been general market inactivity lately, if not paralysis, which has provided
(B) there is general market inactivity, if not paralysis, lately it has provided
(C) general market inactivity, if not paralysis, has lately provided
(D) lately, general market inactivity, if not paralysis, has provided
(E) is that lately general market inactivity, if not paralysis, which provides

Ques 20) Experts estimate that ten times as much petroleum exists in sources like tar sands,
heavy oil, and perhaps even in shale than in conventional reservoirs.

A. sources like tar sands, heavy oil, and perhaps even in shale than

B. sources like tar sands, heavy oil, and perhaps even in shale than are

C. such sources as tar sands, heavy oil, and perhaps even in shale as are

D. such sources as tar sands, heavy oil, and perhaps even shale as

E. such sources as tar sands, heavy oil, and perhaps even shale than