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by gmatblood » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:32 am
Resulting from the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of ancient Nanjing, the name for what today is Beijing, the Chinese people of the Ming Dynasty lost countless books, works of art and calligraphy, and other treasures and found themselves in an almost constant state of reconstruction.


A) Resulting from the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of ancient Nanjing, the name for what today is Beijing,

B) The destroying of the ancient parts by fire of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, what today is Beijing resulted and

C)Because of the result of the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the ancient name for what is today Beijing,

D)Nanjing's Forbidden City, the ancient name for Beijing was repeatedly destroyed by fire and

E)As a result of the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the ancient name for what is today Beijing,

[spoiler]IMO:E[/spoiler]
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by GmatKiss » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:33 am
+1 for E
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by saketk » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:42 am
gmatblood wrote:Resulting from the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of ancient Nanjing, the name for what today is Beijing, the Chinese people of the Ming Dynasty lost countless books, works of art and calligraphy, and other treasures and found themselves in an almost constant state of reconstruction.


A) Resulting from the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of ancient Nanjing, the name for what today is Beijing,

B) The destroying of the ancient parts by fire of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, what today is Beijing resulted and

C)Because of the result of the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the ancient name for what is today Beijing,

D)Nanjing's Forbidden City, the ancient name for Beijing was repeatedly destroyed by fire and

E)As a result of the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the ancient name for what is today Beijing,

[spoiler]IMO:E[/spoiler]
this question is similar to what we have in OG... the alexandria one.

There as well "as a result" was chosen as the correct answer choice,

IMO E
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by sl750 » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:44 am
I don't know how you guys figured the answer to be E. None of the choices make any sense
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by indi » Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:46 pm
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by sam2304 » Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:10 am
sl750 wrote:I don't know how you guys figured the answer to be E. None of the choices make any sense
I guess they mean 'repeated destruction of parts of forbidden city by fire' by this - 'repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City'

IMO E.
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by sl750 » Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:14 am
saketk wrote:
gmatblood wrote:Resulting from the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of ancient Nanjing, the name for what today is Beijing, the Chinese people of the Ming Dynasty lost countless books, works of art and calligraphy, and other treasures and found themselves in an almost constant state of reconstruction.


A) Resulting from the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of ancient Nanjing, the name for what today is Beijing,

B) The destroying of the ancient parts by fire of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, what today is Beijing resulted and

C)Because of the result of the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the ancient name for what is today Beijing,

D)Nanjing's Forbidden City, the ancient name for Beijing was repeatedly destroyed by fire and

E)As a result of the repeated destruction by fire of parts of the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the ancient name for what is today Beijing,

[spoiler]IMO:E[/spoiler]
this question is similar to what we have in OG... the alexandria one.

There as well "as a result" was chosen as the correct answer choice,

IMO E
Would it be possible for you to post the original question? Sometimes questions altered in order to create a "new" question need not necessarily be correct
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by sam2304 » Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:28 am
sl750 wrote: Would it be possible for you to post the original question? Sometimes questions altered in order to create a "new" question need not necessarily be correct
Posted it in a new thread to avoid confusion

https://www.beatthegmat.com/alexandria-t ... tml#418976

Hope this was the one saket mentioned.
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