31. Ethnocentrism is the view that one’s own culture is better than all others. People will always find some aspect of another culture distasteful, ______ sexual practices, a way of treating friends or relatives, or simply a food that they cannot manage to get down with a smile.
(A) be it
(B) owing to
(C) whereas
(D) yet
(E) unless

27. Scientific discoveries often happen unintentionally. In the early 20th century, Alexander Fleming noticed that the mold growing on one of the culture plates in his lab was killing all of the bacteria, ______ him to discover antibiotics. (A) had lead (B) was leading (C) lead (D) leading (E) have lead

28. Joey Alexander, whose parents are Christians, ______ his unique talent as being “a gift from God.” (A) distributes (B) attributing (C) commits (D) committing (E) attributes

29. When a patient is near death, a doctor should not be obliged to embark upon or continue heroic treatment ______ has no prospect of benefiting the patient. (A) in which (B) from which (C) which (D) whom (E) for whom

30. Sting, a supporter for humanitarian and environmental causes, established the Rainforest Foundation, an organization, ______. (A) whose goal is to help save the world’s rainforests (B) who goal is to help save the world’s rainforests (C) that goal is to help save the world’s rainforests (D) which goal is help save the world’s rainforests (E) whatever goal is to help save the world’s rainforests

32. She will not say what the item is, claiming that she won't divulge the secret of a valuable or important item to people she does not know and can ______ be expected to trust. (A) hardly (B) merely (C) simply (D) almost (E) easily B. For each sentence, please choose one underlined part that contains faulty English.

33. During the “dot-com” bubble in the United States which has lasted from the mid-1990s to 2001, many companies, to increase market share, purposely sold products at a loss, a scheme they believed would increase the company’s customer base and lead to future profits. (A) which has lasted(B)to increase(C)s at a loss(D) they believed would(E) lead to

34. The truth is, Geraldine, that in your case as an undergraduate student, you are not studying adequate enough, and you may find yourself in an awkward predicament sometime soon in the near future. (A) that in(B) an(C) adequate enough(D) awkward predicament(E) in the near future.

35. The fact is that still we do not know why some people become addicts and others do not although there are many theories A that reason that some people simply have an “addictive personality type”, being far more susceptible to the reward mechanism that produces addiction while others still believe that it is the addicts’ lack of will power to refrain without taking drugs or alcohol.(A) why some people become(B)that reason(C) susceptible to(D) lack of(E) without

36. In Antarctica, a massive wall that for years was an obstacle to whale watchers receded in 2010 to reveal a shallow channel full of feeding humpbacks. (A) that(B) was(C) receded(D) to reveal(E) feeding humpbacks.

37. Comparing its competitors in the energy space, the renewable energy industry is young. The biggest renewable energy employers, solar PV (1.6 million jobs) and wind (356,000), blow away the number of people employed in either of those industries in any other country, by multiples. (A)Comparing(B) its (C) blow away(D) employed(E) multiples