hi,
First of all, I wanna thank you all for helping me with my preparation for gmat.
i have some more doubts, can you please help me with these questions hurting my ego cause I feel right but they tell me wrong:
1. Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science.
(A) that they believe is // why `A` is wrong, is it meaning change?
(B) that they believe it to be
(C) they believe that it is of
(D) they believe that is
(E) they believe to be of
2. At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls' high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.
(A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are
(B) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes // why `D` is wrong, whats wrong with "which"
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes
3. At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical faction, that of Zapata and his followers, proposed a return to communal ownership of land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards.
(A) land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards
(B) land, a form of ownership of the pre-Columbians and respected by the Spaniards
(C) land, respected by the Spaniards and a pre-Columbian form of ownership
(D) land in which a pre-Columbian form of ownership was respected by the Spaniards
(E) land that had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards // why 'E' is wrong?
4. Balzac drank more than fifty cups of coffee a day and died of caffeine poisoning; furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother Samuel Johnson, the great writer and lexicographer, who was reported to have drunk twenty-five cups of tea at one sitting.
(A) furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother
(B) however, caffeine did not seem to bother
(C) however, caffeine did not seem to have bothered // why `C` is wrong? isn't it parallel?
(D) furthermore, caffeine did not seem to have bothered
(E) in addition, caffeine did not seem to bother
thanks,
Sandeep
First of all, I wanna thank you all for helping me with my preparation for gmat.
i have some more doubts, can you please help me with these questions hurting my ego cause I feel right but they tell me wrong:
1. Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science.
(A) that they believe is // why `A` is wrong, is it meaning change?
(B) that they believe it to be
(C) they believe that it is of
(D) they believe that is
(E) they believe to be of
2. At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls' high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.
(A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are
(B) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes // why `D` is wrong, whats wrong with "which"
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes
3. At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical faction, that of Zapata and his followers, proposed a return to communal ownership of land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards.
(A) land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards
(B) land, a form of ownership of the pre-Columbians and respected by the Spaniards
(C) land, respected by the Spaniards and a pre-Columbian form of ownership
(D) land in which a pre-Columbian form of ownership was respected by the Spaniards
(E) land that had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards // why 'E' is wrong?
4. Balzac drank more than fifty cups of coffee a day and died of caffeine poisoning; furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother Samuel Johnson, the great writer and lexicographer, who was reported to have drunk twenty-five cups of tea at one sitting.
(A) furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother
(B) however, caffeine did not seem to bother
(C) however, caffeine did not seem to have bothered // why `C` is wrong? isn't it parallel?
(D) furthermore, caffeine did not seem to have bothered
(E) in addition, caffeine did not seem to bother
thanks,
Sandeep
