1.Modern discus throwers use much the same technique of ancient Greece.
(A) of ancient Greece
(B) of ancient Greeks
(C) as ancient Greeks did
(D) as they did in ancient Greece
(E) like ancient Greeks
2.The language of the Navajo people, like their Apache cousins, is classified in the Athabascan language family.
(A) their
(B) for their
(C) that of its
(D) its
(E) that of their
3.Woody Guthrie wrote and adapted more than a thousand songs, many of them are about the struggles of workers and the poor in the United States.
(A) many of them are
(B) many of which are
(C) many are
(D) which are, many of them,
(E) and many of them that are
4.As it is primarily a bird of New Zealand’s native forests, the kiwi also lives in scrub and native grasslands.
(A) As it is primarily
(B) Although primarily
(C) Because it lives primarily as
(D) It is primarily
(E) It lives primarily as
5.Althea Gibson, the first African American tennis player to be recognized as a world champion,beginning to play amateur tennis in the 1940s.
(A) beginning to play
(B) began playing
(C) and she began playing
(D) she began to play
(E) she had begun playing
Explanation
1.The correct answer is C
Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by comparing what “Modern discus throwers” do to what “ancient Greeks did” (not to “ancient Greece,” a comparison that would not make logical sense).
2.The correct answer is E
Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the pronoun “that” to refer to “The language” so that one thing, “The language of the Navajo people,” is properly compared to another thing, “that [the language] of their Apache cousins.”
3.The correct answer is B
Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the comma-splice error of the original by using the pronoun “which” in place of the pronoun “them,” thereby turning what was originally an independent clause (“many of them are … United States”) into a relative clause that modifies “songs.”
4.The correct answer is B
Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the awkwardness of the original by using the word “Although” to introduce the comparison between the different habitats of the kiwi (“native forests” and “scrub and native grasslands”).
5.The correct answer is B
Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the sentence fragment error of the original by providing a main verb (“began”) for the subject of the sentence, “Althea Gibson.”
