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by aspirant2011 » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:11 am
Most North Carolina ski resorts broadcast music onto the slopes; skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and "beautiful music" slopes, there are no slopes without music.

(A) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and "beautiful music" slopes, there are
(B) because skiers can choose hard rock, soft pop, or "beautiful music," there are
(C) however, skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, "beautiful music," and
(D) although skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and "beautiful music" slopes, there are
(E) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, "beautiful music" slopes, but

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by vineeshp » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:26 am
(A) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and "beautiful music" slopes, there are - the part after the comma is not properly connected to the part before using a connector.

(B) because skiers can choose hard rock, soft pop, or "beautiful music," there are - Sentence is meaningless
(C) however, skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, "beautiful music," and - multiple issues, but the prominent one is that the list X, Y, Z does not containt an OR / AND.
(D) although skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and "beautiful music" slopes, there are - best of the lot. Although connects the two parts well and the list has a proper connector.
(E) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, "beautiful music" slopes, but - same as C.
Vineesh,
Just telling you what I know and think. I am not the expert. :)
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by HSPA » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:29 am
It seems slopes are named "music"... jazz slope, blue slope..

D sounds okay..
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by AIM GMAT » Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:02 am
Agree with Vineesh , a connector after semicolon is good , in option C the list is extended till no slope so it changed the meaning . D is best option.
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by aspirant2011 » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:12 am
Hi Vineeshp,

Yes the OA is D.........can you please elaborate more on option B i.e why is B wrong?????
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by rohu27 » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:28 am
aspirant2011 wrote:Hi Vineeshp,

Yes the OA is D.........can you please elaborate more on option B i.e why is B wrong?????
let me try...
B actaully says that as skiers choose some form of music, there are no resorts without music, which is not the case.
because skiers blah blah....there are no....

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only i find the questions amsuing/weird/etc or anyone else too?
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by champmag » Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:31 am
B can be eliminated because there is an essential keyword missing: "Among". Since,three options are given to choose from, the use of among is imperative here.
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