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GMAT SC Old Questions
11. At the beginning of the year, the city allocated $150 million to cover the [U]increases in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations[/U]  with the municipal labor unions.
(A) increases in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations
(B) increases in wages it expected to approve from negotiations
(C) increasing wages expected to be approved as a result of negotiating
(D) negotiated increases in wages it expected to approve
(E) increases expected to be approved in wages from negotiating
A):A        [P.67, Q.20]

22.By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological ground [U]to be in sympathy with [/U]  the Pretoria regime.
(A) to be in sympathy with
(B) to sympathize with
(C) for sympathizing with
(D) that they should sympathize with
(E) that they should have sympathy for
A):C           [P.68, Q.23]  


23.Because Halley’s comet changes orbit slightly during the seventy-six-year interval [U]between passing [/U]  close to Earth, it may veer onto a collision course with a planet sometime in the distant future.
(A) between passing
(B) of  passing
(C) between its passes
(D) of its passes
(E) as its passes
A):C        [P.68,Q.24]   


26.Some biographers [U]have not only disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he drank [/U]  at all.
(A) have not only disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he drank
(B) not only have disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also over whether he drank
(C) have disputed not only the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also whether he may not have drunk
(D) not only have disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether or not he had drank
(E) have disputed the common notion not only that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he may not have drunk
A):A              [P.97, Q.8]

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我觉得23还是选B,passing 的主语是comet,需要明确,orbit不能passing

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11. At the beginning of the year, the city allocated $150 million to cover the increases in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions.
(A) increases in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations
(B) increases in wages it expected to approve from negotiations
(C) increasing wages expected to be approved as a result of negotiating
(D) negotiated increases in wages it expected to approve
(E) increases expected to be approved in wages from negotiating
A):A [P.67, Q.20]

首先排除C，increase本身可以作为名词，不使用increasing。
BD在结构上有问题，都不是一套主谓结构，缺少连词。
E在结构上正确，但逻辑发生变化，原句：increase是因，negotiation是果。而E选项颠倒因果关系。

A正确

22.By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological ground to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.
(A) to be in sympathy with
(B) to sympathize with
(C) for sympathizing with
(D) that they should sympathize with
(E) that they should have sympathy for
A):C [P.68, Q.23]

固定搭配： have grounds for doing sth. / be grounds for doing sth.  :  有理由做……

23.Because Halley’s comet changes orbit slightly during the seventy-six-year interval between passing close to Earth, it may veer onto a collision course with a planet sometime in the distant future.
(A) between passing
(B) of passing
(C) between its passes
(D) of its passes
(E) as its passes
A):C [P.68,Q.24]

我觉得应该选择B，大家讨论。

26.Some biographers have not only disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he drank at all.
(A) have not only disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he drank
(B) not only have disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also over whether he drank
(C) have disputed not only the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also whether he may not have drunk
(D) not only have disputed the common notion that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether or not he had drank
(E) have disputed the common notion not only that Edgar Allan Poe drank to excess but also questioned whether he may not have drunk
A):A [P.97, Q.8]

句子结构为Some biographers + have + not only + disputed ...+ but also + questioned... .
A符合此结构。

D中whether or not 有些wordy，用whether就可以了。