PSAT Sample Questions

Writing Skills Section : PSAT Sample Improving Sentences Questions

81. Even though Bela Bartok's music has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schonberg's, it is no less important.
    1. Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schonberg's, it
    2. Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schonberg's, he
    3. Stravinsky's is and less influential than Arnold Schonberg's is, it
    4. Stravinsky and not as influential as Arnold Schonberg, he
    5. Stravinsky and not as influential as Arnold Schonberg, it

    Answer : A

82. According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.
    1. shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate
    2. shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved itself helpful as a demonstration of
    3. shooting dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpfull as demonstrating
    4. that shoots dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful to demonstrate
    5. that shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating

    Answer : E

83. In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years older as was the city Homer's heroes knew.
    1. older as was the city Homer's heroes knew
    2. more ancient than the city known to Homer's heroes
    3. older than was the city known to Homer's heroes
    4. more ancient of a city than Homer's heroes knew
    5. older of a city than was the one known to Homer's heroes

    Answer : B

84. To speak habitually of the "truly needy" is gradually instilling the notion that many of those who are just called "needy" actually have adequate resources; such a conclusion is unwarranted.
    1. To speak habitually of the "truly needy" is gradually instilling the notion
    2. To speak habitually of the "truly needy" is instilling the notion gradually
    3. To speak habitually of the "truly needy" is gradually to instill the notion
    4. Speaking habitually of the "truly needy" is to instill the gradual notion
    5. Speaking habitually of the "truly needy" is instilling the gradual notion

    Answer : C