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Section 9
Practice Test Five
SECTION 9
Time-10 Minutes
14 Questions
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the
corresponding oval on the answer sheet.
The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire
sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice (A)
repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a
better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice (A); if not, select one of the other choices.
In making your selection, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar,
choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation. Your selection should result in the most effective
sentence-clear and precise, without awkwardness or ambiguity.
EXAMPLE:
Every apple in the baskets are ripe and labeled according to the date it was picked.
(A) are ripe and labeled according to the date it was picked
(B) is ripe and labeled according to the date it was picked
(C) are ripe and labeled according to the date they were picked
(D) is ripe and labeled according to the date they were picked
(E) are ripe and labeled as to the date it was picked
ANSWER:
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1. To consider the idea ofbecoming a doctor
and to think of it that it is something that can
be accomplished while working full-time is to
underestimate the time and commitment required
to complete medical school.
(A) that it is something that can be accomplished
(B) as something that can be accomplished
(C) that it is an accomplishment one can do
(D) as it was something that can be accomplished
(E) as if it were like something to accomplish
2. The development of modern democracy's
present-day tenets has required many sacrifices by
generations of freedom-seeking individuals.
(A) The development of modern democracy's
present-day tenets
(B) The present-day tenets of modern democracy
have had development who
(C) The way in which the present-day tenets of
modern democracy get to be developed
(D) Developing modern democracy and the
present-day tenets of them
(E) For modern democracy to develop their
present-day tenets
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