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GMAT OG13语法部分正确句子汇总
GMAT OG13语法部分正确句子汇总

OG13 SC正确句子汇总

1. In a review of 2,000 studies of human behavior that date back to the 1940s, two Swiss psychologists declared that since most of the studies had failed to control for variables such as social class and family size, none could be taken seriously

2. Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours; if the higher the watt-hour rating, the longer the battery can be excepted to last.

3. Although a surge in retail sales has raised hopes that a recovery is finally under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.

4. At the end of 1930s, Duke Ellington was looking for a composer to assist

him-——someone who could not only arrange music for his successful big band, but also mirror his eccentric writing style in order to finish the many pieces he had started but never completed.

5. Of all the vast tides of migration that have swept through history, perhaps none was more concentrated than the wave that brought 12 million immigrants onto American shores in little more than three decades.

6. Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.

7. The intricate structure of the compound insect eye, with its hundreds of miniature eyes called ommatidia, helps explain why scientists have assumed that it evolved independently of the vertebrate eye.

8. In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning and repair because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls.

9. In 1979 lack of rain reduced India's rice production to about 41 million tons, nearly 25 percent less than the 1978 harvest.

10. The widely accepted big bang theory holds that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding ever since.

11. Like the Brontes and Brownings, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are

often subjected to kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and human being.

12. Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network that keeps the brain from getting too hot.

13. There are several ways to build solid walls using just mud or clay, but the most extensively used method has been to form the mud or clay into bricks, and, after some preliminary air drying or sun drying, to lay them in the wall in mud mortar.

14. Rising inventories, if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.

15. Many experts regarded the large increase in credit card borrowing in March not as a sign that households were pressed for cash and forced to borrow, but as a sign that households were confident they could safely handle new debt.

16. A surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought.

17. Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strange electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun's poles or equator.

18. Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, and create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.

19. The exploits of Nellie Bly, a pioneer journalist, included circling the globe faster than Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg.

20. Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending foe the previous quarter.

21. The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain colour or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or anything that has been synthesized.

22. Plants are more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars.

23. The Iroquois were primarily planters, although they supplemented their cultivation of maize, squash, and beans with fishing and hunting.

24. Unlike the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that cause intense pain.

25. Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows and how babies acquire language.

26. Tropical bats play important roles in the rain forest ecosystem, aiding in the dispersal of cashew, date, and fig seeds; pollinating banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; and indirectly helping to produce tequila by pollinating agave plants.

27. None of the attempts to specify the causes of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed do.

28. In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organism's attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant.

29. Emily Dickinson's letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily's brother and ending shortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumber her letters to anyone else.

30. Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed in Burma and estimated to be 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.

31. Even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were relatively simple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983, at age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another.

32. Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as to a person standing on land.

33. Because an oversupply of computer chips has sent prices plunging, the manufacturer has announced that it will cut production by closing its factories for two days a month.

34. Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its survival depends on whether it can broaden its membership and leave its cramped quarters for a site where it can store and exhibit its more than 12,000 artifacts.

35. By 1940, the pilot Jacqueline Cochran held seventeen official national and international speed records, earned at a time when aviation was still so new that many of the planes she flew were dangerously experimental design.

36. Along with the drop in producer prices announced yesterday, the strong retail sales figures released today seem to indicate that the economy, although growing slowly, is not nearing a recession.

37. Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson, the first woman to draw a soldier's pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve.

38. Bengal-born writer, philosopher, and educated Rabindranath T agore had the greatest admiration for Mohandas K. Gandhi as a person and as a politician, but

T agore was also skeptical of Gandhi's form of nationalism and his conservative opinions about India's cultural traditions.

39. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.

40. The organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had long been expected to announce a reduction in output to bolster sagging oil prices, but officials of the organization just recently announced that the group will pare daily production by 1.5 million barrels by the beginning of next year only if non-OPEC nations, including Norway, Mexico, and Russia, trim output by a total of 500,000 barrels a day.

41. In 1850, Lucretia Mott published her discourse on Women, a treatise that argued for equal political and legal rights for women and for changes in the married women's property laws.

42. T o develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers would have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.

43. Laos has a land area comparable to that of Great Britain but a population of only four million people, many of whom are members of hill tribes ensconced in the virtually inaccessible mountain valleys of the north.

44. The plot of the Bostonians centres on the rivalry that develops between Olive Chancellor, an active feminist, and Basil Ransom, her charming and cynical cousin, when they find themselves drawn to the same radiant young woman whose talent for public speaking has won her ardent following.

45. Quasars, at billions of light-years from Earth the most distant observable objects in the universe, are believed to be the cores of galaxies in an early stage of development.

46. In ancient Thailand, much of the local artisan's creative energy was expended on the creation of Buddha images and on construction and decoration of the temples in which they were enshrined.

47. In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years to complete and that literacy critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation in any language.

48. Though called a sea, the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, covering more than four times the surface area of its closest rival in size, North America's Lake Superior.

49. The automotive conveyor-belt system, which Henry Ford modeled after an seemly-line technique introduced by Ransom Olds, reduced the time required to assemble a Model T from a day and a half to 93 minutes.

50. According to some analysts, the gains in the stock market reflect growing confidence that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and instead come in for a "soft landing," followed by a gradual increase in business activity.

51. A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make sense if speech.

52. Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.

53. The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his "Essay on heat and Light," a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that DAvy hoped to found. 54. The report recommended that the hospital eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospitals.

55. Many house builders offer rent-to-buy programs that enable a family with insufficient savings for a conventional down payment to move into new housing and to apply part of the rent to a purchase later.

56. Elizabeth Barber, the author of both Prehistoric T extiles, a comprehensive work on cloth in the early cultures of the Mediterranean, and Women's Work, a more general account of early cloth manufacture, is an authority on textiles in ancient societies.

57. Many of the earliest known images of Hindu deities in India date from the time of the Kushan Empire and were fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from Gandharan grey schist.

58. It can hardly be said that educators are at fault for not anticipating the impact of microcomputer technology: Alvin T offler, one of the most prominent students of the future, did not even mention microcomputers in Future Shock, published in 1970.

59. A leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what Marx's Das Kapital is to socialism.

60. The Olympic Games helped to keep pace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world, for a sacred true was proclaimed during the month of the festival.

61. While all states face similar industrial waste problems, the predominant industries and the regulatory environment of each state obviously determine the types and amounts of waste produced, as well as the cost of disposal.

62. Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities if the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete.

63. When Congress reconvenes, some newly elected members from rural states will try to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain farmers will be allowed to grow and to encourage more aggressive sales of United States farm products overseas.

64. Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol consumption not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate genetic predispositions toward certain diseases.

65. Digging in sediments in northern China, scientists have gathered evidence suggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than previous thought.

66. In a plan to stop the erosion of East Coast Beaches, the Army Corps of Engineers proposed building parallel to shore a breakwater of rock that would rise six feet above the waterline and act as a buffer, absorbing the energy of crashing waves and protecting the beaches.

67. The 32 species that make up dolphin family are closely related to whales and in fact include the animal known as the killer whale which can grow to be 30 feet long and is famous for its aggressive hunting pods.

68. Outlining his strategy for nursing the troubled conglomerate back to health, the chief executive announced plans Wednesday to cut the company's huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months.

69. Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure.

70. The first trenches cut into a 500-acre site at T ell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of Middle East arose simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.

71. Along the major rivers that traverse the deserts of northeast Africa, the Middle East, and northwest India, the combination of a reliable supply of water and good growing conditions encouraged farming traditions that have, in places, endured for at least 6,000 years.

72. His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are temperature areas.

73. Unlike the original National Museum of Science and T echnology in Italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff member, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum, encourages visitors to "touch" each exhibit and thereby active the animated functions of the piece.

74. Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary, but rather fragmented into mobile semirigid plates.

75. More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.

76. Combining enormous physical strength with higher intelligence, the Neanderthals appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path, but their relatively sudden disappearance during the Paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.

77. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

78. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals' horn have been trimmed.

79. Ryunosuke Akutagawa's knowledge of the literatures of Europe, China, and Japan was instrumental in his development as a writer, informing both his literary style and the content of his fiction.

80. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit.

81. Fossils of the arm of a sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on the Greater Antilles Islands.

82.Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients' misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but if criminal or delinquent behaviour is attributed to an allergy to some food, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

83. A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has concluded that many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come from the incineration of wastes.

84. Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach.

85. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, as it was of earlier generations. 86. In 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for half the increase in spending on prescription drugs, a phenomenon that is explained not just by the fact that drugs

are becoming more expensive but also by the fact that doctors are writing many more prescriptions for higher-cost drugs.

87. According to scientists who monitored its path, an expanding cloud of energized particles ejected from the Sun recently triggered a large storm in the magnetic field that surrounds EArth, brightening the Northern Lights and possibly knocking out a communications satellite.

88. Often visible as smog, ozone is formed in the atmosphere when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, two major pollutants emitted by automobiles, react with sunlight.

89. Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nile Delta and the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.

90. The result of the company's cost-cutting measures are evident in its profits, which have increase 5 percent during the first 3 months of this year after failing over the last two years.

91. In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines are priced to sell, and they do.

92.Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

93. Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are in the world, partly because of the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and the sublanguages or dialects within it, but those who have tried to count typically have found about five thousand.

94. Heating-oil price are expected to be higher this year than last because refiners are paying about $5 a barrel more for crude oil than they were last year.

95. One of the primary distinctions between our intelligence and that of other pirates may lie not so much in any specific skill as in our ability to extend knowledge gained in one context to new and different ones.

96. Even though Clovis points, spear points with longitudinal grooves chipped onto their faces, have been found all over North America, they are named for the New Mexico site where they were fist discovered in 1932.

97. Some anthropologists believe that the genetic homogeneity evident in the

world's people is the result of a "population bottleneck"——that at some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event that greatly reduced their numbers and thus our genetic variation.

98. Ranked as one of the most important of Europe's young playwrights, Franz Xaver Kroetz has written 40 plays; his works——translated into more than 30 languages——as produced more often than those of any contemporary German dramatist.

99. Like the planets, the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speed, but they are so faraway from Earth that their apparent positions in the sky do not change enough for their movement to be observed during a single human lifetime.

100. Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

101. As rainfall began to decrease in the Southwest about the middle of the twelfth century, most of the the Monument Valley Anasazi abandoned their homes to join other clans whose access to water was less limited.

102. Y ellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females——the queen and her sterile female workers.

103. El Nino, the periodic abnormal warming of the sea surface off Peru, is a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine to allow the warm water that has accumulated in the western Pacific to flow back to the east. 104. In her book illustration, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

105. Marconi conceived of the radio as a tool for private conversation that could substitute for the telephone; instead, it has become precisely the opposite, atoll for communicating with a large, public audience.

106. Originally developed for detecting air pollutants, a technique called

proton-induced X-ray emission, which can quickly analyze the chemical elects in almost any substance without destroying it, is finding uses in medicine, archaeology, and criminology.

107. While the costs of running nuclear plants is about the same as for other types of power plants, the fixed costs that stem from building nuclear plants make the electricity they generate more expensive.

108. Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as adolescents are self-confident,high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

109. Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in heating physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.

110. Published in Harlem, The Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists, A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and Chandler Owen.

111. A mutual fund having billions of dollars in assets will typically invest that money in hundreds of companies, rarely holding more than one percent of the shares of any particular corporation.

112. Construction of the Roman Colosseum, which was officially known as the Flavian Amphitheater, began in A.D. 69, during the reign of Vespasian, and was completed a decade later, during the reign of Titus, who opened the Colosseum with a one-hundred-day cycle of religious pageants, gladiatorial games and spectacles.

113. A baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision that would be rated about 20/500; an adult with such vision would be deemed legally blind.

114. Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms, have a strong regenerative ability, and if one arm is lost it is quickly replaced, with the animal sometimes overcompensating and growing an extra one or two.

115. Because the new maritime code provides that even tiny islets can be the basis for claims to the fisheries and oil fields of large sea areas, it has already stimulated international disputes over uninhabited islands.

116. The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions and then took turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

117. Gall's hypothesis that different mental functions are localized in different parts of the brain is widely accepted today.

118.Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, but except in the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.

119. George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin) was one of the first European writers to consider the rural poor legitimate subjects for literature and to portray them with sympathy and respect in her novels.

120. The World Wildlife Fund has declared that global warming, a phenomenon that most scientists agree is caused by human beings' burning of fossil fuels, will create havoc among migratory birds by altering the environment in ways harmful to their habitats.

121. New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, the splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions.

122. A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess more than 300 personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

123. Sales of wines declined in the late 1980s, but they began to grow again after the 1991 report that linked moderate consumption of alcohol, and particularly of red wine, with a reduced risk of heart disease.

124. Less successful after she emigrated to New Y ork than she had been in her native Germany, photographer Lotte Jacobi nevertheless earned a small group of discerning admirers, and her photographs were eventually exhibited in prestigious galleries across the United States.

125. T oday, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces twice as many apples as it did in 1910.

126. The use of lie detectors is based on the assumption that lying produces emotional reactions in an individual that, in turn, create unconscious physiological responses.

127. Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans and persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne.

128. Australian embryologists have found evidence to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.

129. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the 4,000 Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventieth-century French to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added.

130. Over 75 percent of the energy produced in France derives from nuclear power, whereas nuclear power accounts for just over 33 percent of the energy produced in Germany.

131. Although the term "psychopath" is popularly applied to an especially brutal criminal, in psychology it refers to someone who is apparently incapable of feeling compassion or the pangs of conscience.

132. Although heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year, appear less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins——they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and viruses——heirlooms are more flavourful and thus in increasing demand.

133. Last week local shrimpers held a new conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting adult sea turtles.

134. Recently implemented "shift-work equations" based on studies of the human sleep cycle have reduced sickness, sleeping on the job, and fatigue among shift workers while raising production efficiency in various industries.

135. Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Muller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honour that European governments and learned societies could bestow.

136. Whereas in mammals the tiny tubes that convey nutrients to bone cells are arrayed in parallel lines, in birds the tubes form a random pattern.

137. Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status.

138. Most efforts to combat such mosquito-borne diseases as malaria and dengue have focused on either vaccinating humans or exterminating.

139. In no other historical sighting did Halley's comet cause such a worldwide sensation as in its return of 1910-1911.

140. Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs have been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are evince of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.

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