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CR Butler Questions December - 6 :

Q1. A regional chapter of the International Business Club (IBC) has found that, because of the number of international companies establishing their business in the United States, the contribution of local entrepreneurs to the IBC is almost negligible. In order to get more local businesses to contribute, the club has proposed to host seminars on how local entrepreneurs can establish their businesses in other countries

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason to expect that the proposed seminars will be successful in attracting local entrepreneurs to support the IBC?


A. The IBC participation of many international companies has decreased considerably in the past few years.

B. Most local entrepreneurs do not contribute to the IBC because they cannot afford the membership rates of the club

C. Some local businessmen have been long-term supporters of the IBC, contributing actively to the organization

D. Many prominent entrepreneurs who are CEOs of multinational companies will be delivering talks at the seminar.

E. Some local businessmen have been voicing their interest in launching branches overseas.

Q2. A recent examination of the waters of the Southern Ocean showed a substantial increase in pollution levels, which is usually caused by routine oil spills during industrial drilling operations in the area. Last month, an article published in the biannual newsletter of a prominent environmental organization attributed this increase to the operations of Gaston Inc., an oil company with several large deep-water drilling operations. This claim is not undermined by the finding that none of Gaston Inc.’s oil plants in the Southern Ocean had any oil spills, because ____________.

A. most increases in the pollution levels of oceans take place because of deep-water drilling operations

B. oil usually floats several feet below the surface of the ocean rather than at the surface itself

C. pollutants that enter the ocean sometimes take decades to affect the marine environment

D. tankers that transport oil from drilling plants to offshore locations often develop leaks

E. calculated amounts of oil are sometimes deliberately discarded by oil plants to maintain water pressure in the area surrounding the plant

Is this question correct? There seems to be no correct answer

B has correct parallelism, but has improper usage

C has correct idiom but wrong parallelism (was not created... but was) the stucture has double "was".

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That’s the reason I have doubted about OA

D

Yeah this seems like a poor quality question, no right answer.

E

A

SC Butler Questions December - 7 :


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SC Butler Questions December - 7 :

Q1. The South-African anti-apartheid revolutionary, Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba or Tata (Father), faced several charges during his fight against the government, spending 27 years in prison, was elected the President of South Africa in 1994, only four years after he had come out of prison.

(A) faced several charges during his fight against the government, spending 27 years in prison, was elected the President of South Africa in 1994, only four years after he had come

(B) faced several charges during his fight against the government, spending 27 years in prison, and was elected the President of South Africa in 1994, only four years after coming

(C) who faced several charges during his fight against the government, having spent 27 years in prison, and was elected the President of South Africa in 1994, only four years after he had come

(D) faced several charges during his fight against the government while spending 27 years in prison and was elected the President of South Africa in 1994, only four years after he came

(E) who faced several charges during his fight against the government and spent 27 years in prison, being elected the President of South Africa in 1994, only four years after he came

Q2. Recent efforts of Panama’s agricultural sector have improved techniques, equipment, quality of seeds up to global standards, and have reduced wastage in cultivating its most promising crops such as bananas and coffee.

(A) techniques, equipment, quality of seeds up to global standards, and have reduced wastage in cultivating
(B) up to global standards techniques, equipment, quality of seeds, and reduced wastage in cultivating
(C) up to global standards the techniques, equipment, quality of seeds, while reducing wastage in the cultivation of
(D) techniques, equipment, and quality of seeds up to global standards while reducing wastage in the cultivation of
(E) techniques, equipment, quality of seeds up to global standards, and reduced wastage in the cultivation of

B

D

CR Butler Questions December - 7 :

Q1. In the last year, a company has lost a few clients and gained a few. But the number of clients lost has been lower than the number of new clients. Also, the average sales for each new client are more than the average sales for each of the other clients. Therefore, it is likely that the company’s average sales per client have been increasing steadily

Which of the following is required for the above argument to hold?

A. Currently, the total number of clients is more than the total number of clients that existed before the company lost some of its clients
B. The average sales for each new client are at least equal to the average sales for each other client
C. Most of the clients lost were already planning to terminate their relationship with the company
D. There has been no decrease in the quality of the services provided by the company since the company lost some of its clients last year
E. The average sales per client lost were not significantly higher than the average sales for each of the other clients

Q2. The industrial revolution, which took place during the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century, is the historical time period in which new manufacturing processes began to be used on a large scale. While some argue that the individual’s standard of living increased at an unprecedented rate during this time, others believe that it was only the overall growth of the economy that increased, and that standards of living did not rise significantly until the twentieth century; the latter belief is clearly true, since _________________________

Which of the following, if true, best completes the passage above?

A. social writings from this time indicate that workers’ living conditions deteriorated during the revolution.

B. the revolution affected not just the professional lives but also the everyday lives of people at the time.

C. new manufacturing processes led to marked improvements in the efficiency of the production process across various kinds of industries

D. classical economics does not even mention the possibility of sustained economic growth during the revolution

E. most economists now believe that socioeconomic changes during the revolution occurred as a rapid rather than gradual process

A

E?

C

SC Butler Questions December - 8 :

Q1. As analysts have predicted, the economy’s stability in the third quarter of the year will probably not depend on the amount of available federal funding for financial organizations but is more than likely determined by the impact of the recent oil crisis on the global market.

(A) is more than likely

(B) more than likely to be

(C) more than likely will be

(D) it is more than likely

(E) it is more than likely that it be

Q2. Companies conducting offshore drilling operations in the northern Artic region maintain that their compliance with regulations that pertain to the safety of marine life in the area are responsible for the decrease in pollution levels in the region.

(A) region maintain that their compliance with regulations that pertain to the safety of marine life in the area are

(B) region, maintaining that their compliance with regulations pertaining to the safety of marine life in the area, are

(C) region maintain that their compliance with regulations pertaining to the safety of marine life in the area is

(D) region that maintain that their compliance with regulations pertaining to the safety of marine life in the area is

(E) region maintain that their compliance with regulations that pertain to the safety of marine life in the area, which is

SC Butler Questions December - 8 :

Q1. As analysts have predicted, the economy’s stability in the third quarter of the year will probably not depend on the amount of available federal funding for financial organizations but is more than likely determined by the impact of the recent oil crisis on the global market.

(A) is more than likely

(B) more than likely to be

(C) more than likely will be

(D) it is more than likely

(E) it is more than likely that it be

Q2. Companies conducting offshore drilling operations in the northern Artic region maintain that their compliance with regulations that pertain to the safety of marine life in the area are responsible for the decrease in pollution levels in the region.

(A) region maintain that their compliance with regulations that pertain to the safety of marine life in the area are

(B) region, maintaining that their compliance with regulations pertaining to the safety of marine life in the area, are

(C) region maintain that their compliance with regulations pertaining to the safety of marine life in the area is

(D) region that maintain that their compliance with regulations pertaining to the safety of marine life in the area is

(E) region maintain that their compliance with regulations that pertain to the safety of marine life in the area, which is

A

A

C

b