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turtle-excluder

by GmatKiss » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:48 pm
Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to
take some credit for the resurgence of the rare
Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with
laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
adult sea turtles.

(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp
nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
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by killer1387 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:10 pm
Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to
take some credit for the resurgence of the rare
Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with
laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
adult sea turtles.

(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp
nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting


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by Anurag@Gurome » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:12 pm
GmatKiss wrote:Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to
take some credit for the resurgence of the rare
Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with
laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
adult sea turtles.

(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp
nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
Original sentence has "...compliance...protect...". It should be "compliance...protects...".

Another correct alternative would be "...compliance...is protecting..."

A, C, and D are eliminated.
B is better than E because E has an unidiomatic construction: "compliance with laws to require...".

The better construction in B "compliance with laws requiring..." makes it the right answer.

The correct answer is B.
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