Part 3 Error Correction

This part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

36. All don’t have a free ticket must pay the admission fee.

A. Everyone who doesn’t have a free ticket

B. No one who doesn’t have a free ticket

C. No one who has free tickets

D. Anyone who has free tickets

37. When I last saw them, the police had chased the robbers down Columbus Street.

A. were chasing

B. was chasing

C. chased

D. were on a chase

38. Erosion that is a slow process, but it constantly changes the features on the surface of the earth.

A. which is

B. although

C. being

D. is

39. When an organism is completely encapsulated and preserved, it becomes a fossil, therefore turning into evidence of things that once lived.

A. thereby

B. as a result of

C. so

D. in the end

40. The pictures of the Loch Ness Monster show a remarkable resemblance to a plesiosaur, a large water reptile of the Mesozoic era presuming extinct for more than 70 million years.

A. supposed

B. presumably

C. presumptuous

D. is presumed

41. In our own galaxy, the Milky Way, there are perhaps 200 billion stars, a small part of them probably have planets on which life is feasible.

A. a small fraction in which

B. a small fraction of which

C. a small fraction which

D. which a fraction of

42. “But you’ll be able to come, won’t you?” “Yes, I think such.”

A. that

B. it

C. so

D. this

43. The professor is quite difficult pleased.

A. to please

B. to be pleased

C. for pleasing

D. pleasing

44. Because everyone knows, facts speak louder than words.

A. Since

B. That

C. It

D. As

45. The trapeze artist who ran away with the clown broke up the lion tamer’s heart.

A. broke away

B. broke down

C. broke

D. broken down

46. His heavy drinking and fond of gambling makes him a poor role model.

A. and fact that he gambles

B. and that he gambles

C. and he gambles which

D. and gambling

47. Depression that inflicts people who believe their lives lack content when the rush of the busy week stops referred to by a prominent psychiatrist as Sunday Neurosis.

A. has been referred to by a prominent psychiatrist

B. has been referred to as by a prominent psychiatrist

C. a prominent psychiatrist has referred to it

D. it has been referred to by a prominent psychiatrist

48. Just as there are occupations that require college degrees also there are occupations for which technical training is necessary.

A. so to there are

B. so too there are

C. so there are

D. so too are there

49. Most of the older civilizations which flourished during the fifth century B.C. are died out.

A. they have died out

B. has died out C. have died out

D. they had died out

50. The student asked her professor if he would have gone on the space ship he did know earlier.

A. if he knew

B. if he knows C. he had known

D. had he known