GMAT Verbal SC-1 Mini Mock

1.  Declining values for farm equipment and land，the collateral against which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season, is going to force many lenders to tighten or deny credit this spring．

      (A)  the collateral against which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season，is

      (B)  which farmers use as collateral to borrow against to get through the harvest season，is

      (C)  the collateral which is borrowed against by farmers to get through the harvest season，   is

      (D)  Which farmers use as collateral to borrow against to get through the harvest season，are

      (E)  the collateral against which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season，are

2. The period when the great painted caves at Lascaux and Altamira were occupied by Upper Paleolithic people .has been established by carbon-14 dating，but what is much more difficult to determine are the reason for their decoration，the use to which primitive people put the caves，and the meaning of the magnificently depicted animals．

      (A)  has been established by carbon-14 dating，but what is much more difficult to determine are

      (B)  has been established by carbon-14 dating，but what is much more difficult to determine is

      (C)  have been established by carbon-14 dating，but what is much more difficult to determine is

      (D)  have been established by carbon-14 dating，but what is much more difficult to determine are

      (E)  are established by carbon-14 dating，but that which is much more difficult to determine is

3. Thomas Eakins’ powerful style and his choices  of subject-the advances in modern surgery, the discipline of sport，the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves-was as disturbing to his own time as it is compelling for ours.

(A)  was as disturbing to his own time as it is

(B)  were as disturbing to his own time as they are

(C)  has been as disturbing in his own time as they are

(D)  had been as disturbing in his own time as it was

(E)  have been as disturbing in his own time as

4. The Federalist papers，a strong defense of the United States Constitution and important as a body of work in political science as well．represents the handiwork of three different authors．

(A)  and important as a body of work in political science as well，represents

(B)  as well as an important body of work in political science，represent

(C)  and also a body of work of importance in political science is representing

(D)  an important body of work in political science and has been representative of

(E)  and as political science an important body of work too, represent

5. The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months，but that the mixed performance of the index’s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first quarter of this year.

(A)  suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months，but that

(B)  suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months，but

(C)  suggests that the economy will continue its expanding in the coming months，but that

(D)  suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months，but that

(E)  suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months，but

6. The Gorton-Dodd bill requires that a bank disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from deposited checks.

(A)  that a bank disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from deposited checks

(B)  a bank to disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from a deposited check

(C)  that a bank disclose to its customers how long it will delay access to funds from deposited checks

(D)  a bank that it should disclose to its customers how long it will delay access to funds from a deposited check

(E)  that banks disclose to customers how long access to funds from their deposited check is to be delayed

7. Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language，a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species．

(A)  Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes

(B)  Neanderthals had a vocal tract resembling an ape's

(C)  The vocal tracts of Neanderthals resembled an ape's

(D)  The Neanderthal's vocal tracts resembled the apes’

(E)  The vocal tracts of the Neanderthals resembled those of the apes

8. Chinese，the most ancient of living writing systems，consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters， each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its    own square frame．

(A)  each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its

(B)  all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

(C)  all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside its

(D)  every character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

(E)  each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

9. Though the term “graphic design”may suggest laying out corporate brochures and annual reports, they have come to signify widely ranging work．from package designs and company logotypes to signs，book jackets，computer graphics，and film titles．

(A)  suggest laying out corporate brochures and annual reports，they have come to signify widely ranging

(B)  suggest laying out corporate brochures and annual reports，it has come to signify a wide range of

(C)  suggest corporate brochure and annual report layout，it has signified widely ranging

(D)  have suggested corporate brochure and annual report layout, it has signified a wide range of

(E)  have suggested laying out corporate brochures and annual reports，they have come to signify widely ranging

10. Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America since prehistoric times，and it is still prized as a game animal by the campesinos, who typically cook the meat in a heavily spiced stew．

(A)  it is still prized as a game animal

(B)  it is still prized as game animals

(C)  they are still prized as game animals

(D)  they are still prized as being a game anima

(E)  being still prized as a game animal

11. 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)  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

12. The bank holds $ 3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due．

(A)  they do not expect payments when

(B)  it does not expect payments when it is

(C)  it does not expect payments to be made when they are

(D)  payments are not to be expected to be paid when

(E)  payments are not expected to be paid when they will be

13. Any medical test will sometimes fail to detect a condition when it is present and indicate that there is one when it is not．

(A)  a condition when it is present and indicate that there is one

(B)  when a condition is present and indicate that there is one

(C)  a condition when it is present and indicate that it is present

(D)  when a condition is present and indicate its presence

(E)  the presence of a condition when it is there and indicate its presence

14. It is possible that Native Americans originally have migrated to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land that once existed between Siberia and Alaska.

(A)  have migrated to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land that once existed

(B)  were migrating to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land that existed once

(C)  migrated over a bridge of land to the Western Hemisphere that once existed

(D)  migrated to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land that once existed

(E)  were migrating to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land existing once