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A recent study showed that the constant roar of jet aircraft [#permalink]
 14 Sep 2004, 12:49
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A recent study showed that the constant roar of jet aircraft could be a serious impact to the psychological well-being of children living near airports and sharply increase their possibility to have high blood pressure.
a. be a serious impact to the psychological well-being of children living
near airports and sharply increase their possibility to have
b. seriously impact the psychological well-being of children living near
airports and sharply increase their possibility to have
c. seriously impact the psychological well-being of children living near
airports and sharply increase their possibility of having
d. have a serious impact on the psychological well-being of children living
near airports and sharply increase their possibility to have
e. have a serious impact on the psychological well-being of children living
near airports and sharply increase their possibility of having
please provide explanation for your answer.
OA will follow.
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I would go with C. It was b/w C and E
A) "could be a serious impact" is unidiomatic
B and D are out because "possibility to have" is unidiomatic
C is better to E's passive voice and is more parallel "seriously impact/sharply increase"
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Re: SC- Jet Aircraft. (Tough one) [#permalink]
14 Sep 2004, 13:18
OA will follow.[/quote]
Will go with C
seriously .... sharply parallel and adverbs right next to the verbs modified
well-being of and possibility of ... parallel
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Yes, I will go with C too.
seriously and sharply
of children living and of having
both parallelism, I think.
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Alex
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I think E is the best.
As far as I know, "impact" is not used as a verb in GMAT.
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Could somebody fault E apart from what paul wrote. E asnd C. C follows parrelelism yet I am not so convinced on the on the use of impact as an idiom. I have known impact to be used as
impact on X to Y and not impact X
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E is passive and:
could have a serious impact on the psychological well-being of children living
near airports ...
and
could sharply increase their possibility of having...
are not parallel.
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I feel compelled to question the question-
"their possibility" seems questionable. A possibility is a state of nature, not something that is ordinarily posssessed by an individual.
A definite article seems more appropriate.
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Hjort wrote: I feel compelled to question the question-
"their possibility" seems questionable. A possibility is a state of nature, not something that is ordinarily posssessed by an individual.
A definite article seems more appropriate.
yep. you are right, but the answer is best among the worst 
why "A" definite article is "the"  
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Choice C for me also, for the reasons of parallel construction and right usage of "serious" for qualifying "impact"
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Guys This one is from Kaplan, OA is E!
I also found this question discussed previously.
http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4205
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zukax wrote: Guys This one is from Kaplan, OA is E! I also found this question discussed previously. http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4205 this one was tough!
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