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Q35 According to a panel of health officials, there has been a great deal of
confusion in the medical profession about whether obesity is a biological
disorder posing serious health risks or a condition more related to
appearance than to health.
Q38 According to a recent study, the elderly in the United States are four
times more likely to give regular financial aid to their children than to
receive it from them.
Q156 Balding is much more common among White males than among
males of other races.
Q425 Increases in the cost of energy, turmoil in the international money
markets, and the steady erosion of the dollar have altered the investment
strategies of United States corporations more radically than those of foreign
corporations.
Q540 Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern European architecture
more apparent than in its government buildings. (
In no historical sighting did
Halleys Comet cause such a worldwide sensation as in its return of 19101911.)

Q562 One reason more young people lose their virginity during the
summer than at other times of the year is undoubtedly that school
vacations give adolescents more free time.
Q588 Psychologists now contend that the way adults think and feel is
determined as much by their early childhood peers as by their parents.

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Q42 According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the

Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly
four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing in
socioeconomically deprived areas.
Q71 Aging is a property of all animals that reach a fixed size at maturity, and
the variations in life spans among different species are far greater than
those among individuals of the same species: a fruit fly is ancient at 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoises at 150.
Q261 During the 1980s it became clear that for environmentalists who
sought financial aid, it was far more efficient to solicit private funds than
to go to state or federal agencies.
B) that/those
Q32 A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if
calves exercise and associate with other calves, they require less medication
and gain weight more quickly than those raised in confinement. those
calves
Q164 Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple
hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants
than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel.
those vehicles those burning certain pollutants


Q168 Because the Earths crust is more solid there and thus better able to
transmit shock waves, an earthquake in the eastern United States will
typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will a quake of
comparable magnitude occurring in the West.

Q435 Inuits of the Bering Sea were isolated from contact with Europeans
longer than were Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific and northern Alaska.
Q461 Judge Forer recognizes that the American judicial system provides
more safeguards for accused persons than does the legal system of any
other country, but she believes there is a great disparity between the
systems of justice accorded rich and poor.
Q492 Los Angeles has a higher number of family dwellings per capita than
does any other large city.
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Q250 Domestic automobile manufacturers have invested millions of dollars
in research to develop cars even more gasoline-efficient than those at
present on the road.
Q365 In addition to having more protein than wheat does, rice has protein
of higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential
to the human diet.
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than wheat wheat has/do

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Q177 Bihar is Indias poorest state, with an annual per capita income of
$111, lower than that of in the most impoverished countries of the world.
Q381 In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German
archaeologist Schliemann cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a
thousand years more ancient than the city known to Homers heroes.
a thousand years civilization
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Q384 Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on
defending its coasts from rising seas than the United States does on
military defense.
Q386 In Japan elderly people are treated with far greater respect than
they are in most Western countries. Elderly people are

treated with far greater respect in Japan than in most Western countries.
Q393 In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many Americans were killed
as would later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
as, than
Q428 Inflation has made many Americans reevaluate their assumptions
about the future; they still expect to live better than their parents did,
but not so well as they once thought they could.

Q10 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 industrys economic health much more robust than it was five
years ago.
Q299 Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of
them in such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the states
economy far more diversified than it was ten years ago.
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Q113 Analysts blamed Mays sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise

as well as the weather, which was colder and wetter than usual in some
regions, slowing sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.
Q531 New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that
records radiation from surface areas, have made it possible to study in greater
detail than ever before the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river.
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Q195 When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late
1950s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less
than one-quarter that many.
A. there are less than one-quarter that many

B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many

C. there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount
D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount
E. it is less than one-quarter of that amount
D less number
amount/size
numbers, dollars, gallons
amount/size less few
The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with
extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of
DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's. . (A)
a)
extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
b)
extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
c)
extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
d)
extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
e)
extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
less few
937.With a total population of less than two hundred and fewer breeding
females than ever before, the American crocodile seemed a decade ago to
be in danger of disappearing.
(A) of less than two hundred and fewer
(B) lower than two hundred and less
(C) lesser than two hundred and fewer
(D) fewer than two hundred and less
(E) of fewer than two hundred and of fewer
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Q613 Sales of United States manufactured goods to non-industrialized
countries rose to $167 billion in 1992, which is 14 percent more than the
previous year and largely offsets weak demand from Europe and Japan. (E)
(A) which is 14 percent more than the previous year

(B) which is 14 percent higher than it was the previous year

(C) 14 percent higher than the previous years figure
(D) an amount that is 14 percent more than the previous year was
(E) an amount that is 14 percent higher than the previous years figure
PREP According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about
20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in
the 1977 survey. (E)
(A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey
(B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported
(C) twice those the 1977 survey reported
(D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey
(E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey
PREP 218 Only seven people this century have been killed by the great
white shark, the man-eater of the moviesless than those killed by bee
stings. (B)
A. moviesless than those
B. moviesfewer than have been
C. movies, which is less than those
D. movies, a number lower than the people
E. movies, fewer than the ones
D number B than

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652.Since the movie was released seventeen UFOs have been sighted in the
state, which is more than had been sighted in the past ten years together. (B)
(A) which is more than had been sighted
(B) more than had been sighted
(C) more than they had sighted
(D) more than had reported sightings
(E) which is more than had reported sightings
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