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Directions: Questions 46-56 require you to rewrite sentences in your head. Each question tells you exactly how to begin your new sentence. Your new sentence should have the same meaning and contain the same information as the original sentence. Example: The student senate debated for two hours and finally voted down the resolution.
Rewrite, beginning with
Having debated the issue for two hours, . . .
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 | (A) the issue |  | (B) it | | (C) the student senate |  | (D) a vote |
| 46. Success in the corporation comes to those executives who do not merely manage machines, but manage people. Rewrite, beginning with
The executives who succeed in the corporation do not merely manage . . .
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| 47. Most spiders are harmless friends of people and destroy fleas, mosquitoes, and other insects; black widows and tarantulas are the only exceptions. Rewrite, beginning with
Except for black widows and tarantulas, . . .
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| 48. One person may try to increase satisfaction with his or her job by seeking more responsibility; another may compensate for dissatisfaction by devoting more time to hobbies. Rewrite, beginning with
Dissatisfaction with a job may lead one person . . .
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| 49. The cause was so worthy that there could be no criticism of it. Rewrite, beginning with
There could be no criticism . . .
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| 50. The environmental movement has been a force in society for over a decade and has helped to bring about a number of important changes. Rewrite, beginning with
A force in society for over a decade, . . .
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| 51. The impact of fiber optics on the people of the twenty-first century may be comparable to the impact of the dynamo on the people of the nineteenth. Rewrite, beginning with
Fiber optics may be to the people of the twenty-first century . . .
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| 52. Pasteur's discovery of a way to identify parasite-infested silkworm eggs saved the French silk industry. Rewrite, beginning with
By discovering a method of identifying parasite-infested silkworm eggs, . . .
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| 53. Bitter memories of the Great Depression were evoked when Britain's unemployment figure reached more than one million recently. Rewrite, beginning with
Britain's unemployment figure reached more than one million . . .
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| 54. The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, shows the heroine falling from great success to misery and destitution.
Rewrite, beginning with
In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, . . .
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| 55. A clenched fist shows anger, and drooping shoulders indicate despondency; the first is an example of conscious body language, while the second is unconscious. Rewrite, beginning with
Body language may be unconscious, . . .
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| 56. Images from the alleys and tenements of the Lower East Side of New York City in the late nineteenth century were brought to the attention of America by the photographs of Jacob Riis. Rewrite, beginning with
Through his photographs, . . .
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