August 30th, 2010 | 
Author: A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago.
- making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
- and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
- making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
- to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
- in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
Highlight to see answer: C
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A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
- numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
- numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
- numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
- number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
- number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
Highlight to see answer: D
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A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be
Highlight to see answer: C
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A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
- from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
- from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
- the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
- to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
- being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
Highlight to see answer: D
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A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.
- flames spreading
- flame spreads
- flames are caused to spread
- causing flames to spread
- causing spreading of the flames
Highlight to see answer: D
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