Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library
Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library
Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library
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158 <strong>Vocabulary</strong> <strong>4000</strong><br />
2. Unless you maintain at least a 2.0 GPA, you will not graduate medical<br />
school.<br />
(A) you will not graduate medical school.<br />
(B) you will not be graduated from medical school.<br />
(C) you will not be graduating medical school.<br />
(D) you will not graduate from medical school.<br />
(E) you will graduate medical school.<br />
Choice (A) is incorrect. In this context, graduate requires the word<br />
from: “you will not graduate from medical school.”<br />
The use of the passive voice in choices (B) and (C) weakens the<br />
sentence.<br />
Choice (D) is the answer since it uses the correct idiom<br />
graduate from.<br />
Choice (E) changes the meaning of the sentence and does not<br />
correct the faulty idiom.<br />
3. The studio’s retrospective art exhibit refers back to a simpler time in<br />
American history.<br />
(A) The studio’s retrospective art exhibit refers back to<br />
(B) The studio’s retrospective art exhibit harkens back to<br />
(C) The studio’s retrospective art exhibit refers to<br />
(D) The studio’s retrospective art exhibit refers from<br />
(E) The studio’s retrospective art exhibit looks back to<br />
Choice (A) is incorrect. Retrospective means looking back on the<br />
past. Hence, in the phrase refers back, the word back is redundant.<br />
Choice (B) is incorrect because harkens back is also redundant.<br />
Choice (C) is correct. Dropping the word back eliminates the<br />
redundancy.<br />
Choice (D) is incorrect because the preposition from is nonidiomatic.<br />
Choice (E) is incorrect because looks back is also redundant.
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