1. After a few weeks' experience, apprentice jewelers can usually begin to discriminate, though not with absolute certainty, genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds.

　　(A) genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds

　　(B) genuine diamonds apart from imitations

　　(C) between genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds

　　(D) among genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds

　　(E) whether diamonds are imitation or genuine

　　2. Convinced at last of the soundness of her advice, the villagers tried crop rotation, built crude sanitary facilities, and even the use of goat's milk for the making of cheese.

　　(A) the use of goat's milk for the making of cheese

　　(B) used goat's milk to make cheese

　　(C) the use of goat's milk in cheese making

　　(D) making cheese from goat's milk

　　(E) goat's milk to make cheese

　　3. The original employees hired, who had been there over twenty years, were fiercely loyal to the firm, and it offered no retirement benefits or profit sharing to any employees.

　　(A) and it offered no

　　(B) and it offered neither

　　(C) still it offered no

　　(D) though it offered no

　　(E) though it offered neither

　　4. Virtually undisturbed for the last three centuries on their starkly beautiful islands near the edge of the Arctic Circle, the inhabitants of the Lofotens have evolved folkways and a life-style that bring warmth to their harsh environment.

　　(A) the inhabitants of the Lofotens have evolved folkways and a life-style that bring warmth

　　(B) the inhabitants of the Lofotens have evolved folkways and a life-style that brings warmth

　　(C) evolving folkways and a life-style were evolved by the Lofotens inhabitants to bring warmth

　　(D) evolving folkways and a life-style brought warmth to the Lofotens' inhabitants as well as

　　(E) warmth-bringing folkways and life-styles have been evolved by the inhabitants of the Lofotens

　　5. If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated, or even suspected, the impending sale of the Koniko kelp processing plant, they would

　　have advised owners of Koniko stock to unload all shares immediately.

　　(A) If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated

　　(B) Had anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated

　　(C) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated

　　(D) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers had anticipated

　　(E) If anybody at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated

　　6. Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these grueling competitive events, runners must be in excellent condition, have unshakable self-confidence, and, most important of all, know how to pace yourself.

　　(A) know how to pace yourself

　　(B) is knowing how to pace yourself

　　(C) know how to pace themselves

　　(D) you must pace yourself

　　(E) they must know how to pace themselves

　　7. For some reason the new consultant treats his clients like idiots, talking to them like they were mentally deficient and incapable of understanding more than the simplest ideas.

　　(A) like idiots, talking to them like they

　　(B) as if they were idiots, talking to them like they

　　(C) like idiots, talking to them as if they

　　(D) as idiots, talking to them like they

　　(E) like idiots who

　　8. The unprecedented increases in the prime lending rate this year has probably been brought about by business community's uncertainty about the President's position on the budget deficit.

　　(A) in the prime lending rate this year has

　　(B) this year in the prime lending rate has

　　(C) this year in the prime lending rate having

　　(D) in the prime lending rate this year had

　　(E) in the prime lending rate this year have

　　9. A shy, religious-minded publisher who had married a duke's daughter, Harold Macmillan's rise to the position of Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many, though Churchill had since the 1930s been extolling Macmillan's courage.

　　(A) Harold Macmillan's rise to the position of Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many

　　(B) Harold Macmillan's rise in 1957 to the position of Prime Minister surprised many

　　(C) Harold Macmillan's becoming Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many

　　(D) Harold Macmillan surprised many by rising to the position of Prime Minister in 1957

　　(E) the position of Prime Minister attained by Harold Macmillan in 1957 surprised many

　　10. As part of their therapy, young polio victims learning to live with their disabilities were helped to practice falling during the 1950s, so that they could learn to fall without being hurt.

　　(A) As part of their therapy, young polio victims learning to live with their disabilities were helped to practice falling during the 1950s

　　(B) As part of their therapy, young polio victims learning to live during the 1950s with their disabilities were helped to practice falling

　　(C) Young polio victims learning to live during the 1950s with their disabilities were helped to practice falling as part of their therapy

　　(D) Young polio victims learning to live with their disabilities were helped to practice falling during the 1950s as part of their therapy

　　(E) During the 1950s, as part of their therapy, young polio victims learning to live with their disabilities were helped to practice falling

　　11. According to the professor's philosophy, the antidote to envy is one's own work, always one's own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it.

　　(A) one's own work, always one's own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it

　　(B) always work; because you don't think about it or assess it, you just do it

　　(C) always one's own work: not thinking about or assessing it, but simply to do it

　　(D) not to think or assess, but doing one's own work

　　(E) neither to think about one's own work nor to assess it, it is always simply doing it

　　12. After this year's record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as the country's best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

　　(A) the ensemble were touted as the country's

　　(B) the ensemble was touted as the country's

　　(C) the country touted the ensemble like the

　　(D) touting the ensemble as the country's

　　(E) they were touting the ensemble as the country's

　　13. Ms. Wright tries to get inside Iran to understand how it works, the role it has played in the Middle East and its intricate relationship with the United States, which is complex and depends heavily on understanding of the Farsi language.

　　(A) which is complex and depends

　　(B) because it is complex and depends

　　(C) but they are complex and depend

　　(D) which are complex and depend

　　(E) a task that is complex and depends

　　14. Published during the late eighteenth century, Diderot's factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire's fictional Candide were the cause of such a sensational scandal, and both men prudently chose to embark on extended vacations in nearby Austria.

　　(A) Diderot's factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire's fictional Candide were the cause of such a sensational scandal, and

　　(B) Diderot and his friend Voltaire's caused such a sensational scandal with their factual Encyclopedia and fictional Candide, respectively, that

　　(C) Diderot's factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire's fictional Candide were the cause of a scandal so sensational that

　　(D) the scandal caused by Diderot's factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire's fictional Candide was so sensational

　　(E) a factual Encyclopedia by Diderot and the fictional Candide, by his friend Voltaire, caused a sensational scandal, which