Error Detection Drill #4

1) Although science offers the hope (A) of preventing serious genetic diseases, (B) there is difficult ethical questions (C) raised by the (D) possibility of altering human heredity. (E) No error

2) In the nineteenth century, careers in business and law (A) were prestigious, but (B) it (C) did not require practitioners (D) to hold college degrees. (E) No error

3) Chess players find that playing against a computer is helpful (A) to improve (B) their skills, (C) even though no chess-playing computer has yet (D) won a championship. (E) No error

4) (A) Reaching lengths of twelve inches, banana slugs (B) are the (C) much larger of all the slug species that (D) inhabit North America. (E) No error

5) Maya Madera (A) proudly wore her sister’s (B) most popular invention, a watch for winter campers (C) that flashes the temperature in lighted numerals and sends out a loud alarm when (D) pressing a button. (E) No error

6) (A) Obviously, Whistler’s paintings, (B) unlike Klee, are (C) conventional in (D) their subject matter. (E) No error

7) A newly formed organization of homeowners and business people (A) have met with the transportation department (B) to voice its (C) concerns about (D) plans for a shopping mall in the community. (E) No error

8) (A) Although she considers her chemistry research (B) complete, she (C) has heeded her professor’s advice and (D) is conducting three additional experiments. (E) No error

9) Princeton University officials first (A) broke with a tradition (B) of awarding honorary degrees only (C) to men when they awarded (D) it to author Will Cather. (E) No error

10) His love of politics (A) led (B) him to volunteer in local campaigns (C) as well as (D) a job in a government office in the state capital. (E) No error

11) Now that Michiko (A) finished the research, she feels (B) reasonably confident (C) about writing her paper on the (D) rise of the progressive movement in the United States. (E) No error

12) The condition known as laryngitis (A) usually causes the vocal cords and surrounding tissue to swell, (B) thus preventing the cords (C) to move (D) freely. (E) No error

13) (A) For the cyclist exploring Ireland's western cliffs, every road leading (B) out of the town of Clifden offers (C) their (D) own set of wonders. (E) No error

14) The construction of a waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (A) was first proposed in 1524, (B) but not until the Panama Canal opened in 1914 did (C) such a project become (D) a reality. (E) No error