GMAT (Sentence Correction) Sample Questions Set-2
Categories: GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)
Question: Efforts to equalize the funds available to school districts, a major goal of education reformers and many states in the 1970's, has not significantly reduced the gaps existing between the richest and poorest districts.
A. has not significantly reduced the gaps existing
B. has not been significant in reducing the gap that exists
C. has not made a significant reduction in the gap that exists
D. have not significantly reduced the gap that exists
E. have not been significant in a reduction of the gaps existing
Answer: (d)
Question: The financial crash of October 1987 demonstrated that the world's capital markets are integrated more closely than never before and events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the rest of the village-almost instantaneously.
A. integrated more closely than never before and
B. closely integrated more than ever before so
C. more closely integrated as never before while
D. more closely integrated than ever before and that
D. more than ever before closely integrated as
Answer: (d)
Question: Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang like socks on a clothesline.
A. saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang
B. saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs were hanging
C. saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
D. seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
E. seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs have hung
Answer: (d)
Question: If the proposed expenditures for gathering information abroad are reduced even further, international news reports have been and will continue to diminish in number and quality.
A. have been and will continue to diminish
B. have and will continue to diminish
C. will continue to diminish, as they already did,
D. will continue to diminish, as they have already,
E. will continue to diminish
Answer: (e)
Question: Displays of the aurora borealis, or "northern lights" can heat the atmosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines.
A. to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce
B. that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induce
C. that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces
D. that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected and induces
E. to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce
Answer: (e)