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Tiny quantities of more than thirty rare gases

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by gmat740 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:08 pm
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Tiny quantities of more than thirty rare gases, most of them industrial by-products, threaten to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide during the next fifty years.

(A) to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide during the next fifty years
(B) to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly over the next fifty years than carbon dioxide will
(C) during the next fifty years to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide
(D) a warming of the Earth’s atmosphere during the next fifty years even more rapid than carbon dioxide’s
(E) a warming of the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapid than carbon dioxide’s will be over the next fifty years

OA-BIMO-A

why is A wrong?
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:11 pm
IMO B A has wrong comparison....

More warm more than CO2...
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by arora007 » Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:37 am
see the subtle difference between...
than carbon dioxide in A
and
than carbon dioxide will in B.
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by tomada » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:32 am
I interpreted choice 'A' to mean that the thirty rare gases will warm the Earth's atmosphere faster than they will warm carbon dioxide. I think that the inclusion of "will" in choice 'B' creates the necessary parallelism.
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by reply2spg » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:38 am
'threaten X to Y' correct idiom. B has correct comparison

B is correct
gmat740 wrote:866
Tiny quantities of more than thirty rare gases, most of them industrial by-products, threaten to warm the Earth?s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide during the next fifty years.

(A) to warm the Earth?s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide during the next fifty years
(B) to warm the Earth?s atmosphere even more rapidly over the next fifty years than carbon dioxide will
(C) during the next fifty years to warm the Earth?s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide
(D) a warming of the Earth?s atmosphere during the next fifty years even more rapid than carbon dioxide?s
(E) a warming of the Earth?s atmosphere even more rapid than carbon dioxide?s will be over the next fifty years

OA-BIMO-A

why is A wrong?
Sudhanshu
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by nikhilkatira » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:02 am
tomada wrote:I interpreted choice 'A' to mean that the thirty rare gases will warm the Earth's atmosphere faster than they will warm carbon dioxide. I think that the inclusion of "will" in choice 'B' creates the necessary parallelism.
Nice interpretation.
Best,
Nikhil H. Katira
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by kvcpk » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:55 pm
Yeah.. B looks perfect!!
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