Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library
Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library
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Idiom & Usage 149<br />
Solutions to Drill III<br />
1. By focusing on poverty, the other causes of crime—such as the breakup of<br />
the nuclear family, changing morals, the loss of community, etc.—have<br />
been overlooked by sociologists.<br />
(A) the other causes of crime—such as the breakup of the nuclear family,<br />
changing morals, the loss of community, etc.—have been overlooked<br />
by sociologists.<br />
(B) the other causes of crime have been overlooked by sociologists—such<br />
as the breakup of the nuclear family, changing morals, the loss of<br />
community, etc.<br />
(C) there are other causes of crime that have been overlooked by<br />
sociologists—such as the breakup of the nuclear family, changing<br />
morals, the loss of community, etc.<br />
(D) crimes—such as the breakup of the nuclear family, changing morals,<br />
the loss of community, etc.—have been overlooked by sociologists.<br />
(E) sociologists have overlooked the other causes of crime—such as the<br />
breakup of the nuclear family, changing morals, the loss of<br />
community, etc.<br />
Choice (A) is incorrect since it implies that the other causes of crime<br />
are doing the focusing.<br />
Choice (B) has the same flaw.<br />
Choice (C) is incorrect. The phrase by focusing on poverty<br />
must modify the subject of the sentence, but there cannot be the<br />
subject since the construction there are is used to introduce a<br />
subject.<br />
Choice (D) implies that crimes are focusing on poverty.<br />
Choice (E) puts the subject of the sentence sociologists immediately<br />
next to its modifying phrase by focusing on poverty. The<br />
answer is (E).<br />
2. Using the Hubble telescope, previously unknown galaxies are now being<br />
charted.<br />
(A) Using the Hubble telescope, previously unknown galaxies are now<br />
being charted.<br />
(B) Previously unknown galaxies are now being charted, using the Hubble<br />
telescope.<br />
(C) Using the Hubble telescope, previously unknown galaxies are now<br />
being charted by astronomers.<br />
(D) Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers are now charting previously<br />
unknown galaxies.<br />
(E) With the aid of the Hubble telescope, previously unknown galaxies are<br />
now being charted.
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