1. Temporary-employment agencies benefit not only from the increasing demand for clerical workers but also the higher profits made when highly paid professionals are placed，requests for whom have increased in the recent wave of corporate takeovers.
（A） the higher profits made when highly paid professionals are placed， requests for whom
（B） the higher profits that are made in the placement of highly paid professionals， requests for whom
（C） from the requests for highly paid professionals，who make higher profits for the agencies when placed and whose requests
（D） from highly paid professionals，whose placement makes higher profits for the agencies and whose requests
（E） from the higher profits made in placing highly paid professionals， requests for whom
2. In December of 1987 an automobile manufacturer pleaded no contest to criminal charges of odometer tampering and agreed to pay more than $16 million in civil damages for cars that were test-driven with their odometers disconnected.
（A） cars that were test-driven with their odometers disconnected
（B） cars that it had test-driven with their disconnected odometers
（C） its cars having been test-driven with disconnected odometers
（D） having test-driven cars with their odometers disconnected
（E） having cars that were test-driven with disconnected odometers
3. The bank acknowledged that they are and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts to deal with the precipitous fall of the dollar against the yen and the dislocations reflected in the stock market decline.
（A） they are and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts
（B） they are and will continue to experience difficulties as they attempt
（C） it is and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts
（D） it is experiencing and will continue to experience difficulties as they make an attempt
（E） its difficulties are likely to continue as it attempts
4 In terms of physics，the characteristic feature of the roller coaster is that the cars' potential energy，gained through their being lifted by a chain drive through the Earth's gravity to the top of the first drop，has been converted to kinetic energy by the time the ride ends.
（A） cars' potential energy， gained through their being lifted by a chain drive
（B） cars' potential energy， a gain achieved as they are lifted by a chain drive
（C） potential energy from the cars' being lifted by a chain drive
（D） potential energy of the cars， gained as a chain drive lifts them
（E） potential energy gained by the cars， being achieved while a chain drive lifts them
5. According to some analysts，whatever its merits，the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would，if enacted，have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
（A） its merits， the proposal to tax
（B） its merits may be， the proposal of taxin
（C） its merits as a proposal， taxing
（D） the proposal's merits， to tax
（E） the proposal's merits are， taxing
6 The key to control over the Eurasian steppes lay in the nomad's ability to use the horse both as a means of transport but also as an effective military tool.
（A） but also as
（B） or as
（C） and as
（D） or
（E） and also
7 Judge Lois Forer's study asks why do some litigants have a preferred status over others in the use of a public resource，the courts，which in theory are available to all but in fact are unequally distributed among rich and poor.
（A） do some litigants have a preferred status over others in the use of a public resource， the courts， which in theory are available to all but in fact are unequally distributed among
（B） some litigants have a preferred status over others in the use of a public resource， the courts， which in theory are available to all but in fact are unequally distributed between
（C） do some litigants have a preferred status over another in the use of a public resource， the courts， in theory available to all but in fact are unequally distributed among
（D） some litigants have a preferred status to another in the use of a public resource， the courts， in theory available to all but in fact not equally distributed between
（E） does one litigant have a preferred status over the other in the use of a public resource， the courts， in theory available to all but in fact they are not equally distributed among
8. As litigation grows more complex，the need that experts explain technical issues becomes more apparent.
（A） that experts explain technical issues becomes
（B） for experts to explain technical issues became
（C） for experts to explain technical issues becomes
（D） that technical issues be explained by experts became
（E） that there be explanations of technical issues by experts has become
9. Last spring a Colorado health department survey of 72 playgrounds in private child-care centers found unsafe conditions in 95 percent of them and they ranged from splinters to equipment near collapse.
（A） unsafe conditions in 95 percent of them and they ranged
（B） conditions in 95 percent were unsafe and ranging
（C） the ranging of unsafe conditions in 95 percent of them to be
（D） that 95 percent had unsafe conditions ranging
（E） that 95 percent of them had conditions that were unsafe； the range was
10.The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have an economy free of inflation.
（A） be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have
（B） seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
（C） seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility of having
（D） have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
（E） have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility of having
11. Recent excavations suggest that the ancient peoples of the Italian peninsula merged the cult of Damia——a goddess of fertility and the harvest——with Venus.
（A） with Venus
（B） and Venus
（C） with that of Venus
（D） and Venus'
（E） and Venus' cult
12 Since the 1930's aircraft manufacturers have tried to build airplanes with frictionless wings，shaped so smoothly and perfectly that the air passing over them would not become turbulent.
（A） wings， shaped so smoothly and perfectly
（B） wings， wings so smooth and so perfectly shaped
（C） wings that are shaped so smooth and perfect
（D） wings， shaped in such a smooth and perfect manner
（E） wings， wings having been shaped smoothly and perfectly so
13. Some biographers have not only disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he drank at all.
（A） have not only disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he drank
（B） not only have disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also over whether he drank
（C） have disputed not only the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also whether he may not have drunk
（D） not only have disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether or not he had drunk
（E） have disputed the common notion not only that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he may not have drunk
