Section 3: EQUIVALENT SENTENCES

From the options (A, B, C, D) in each item below, select the sentence which is nearest in meaning to the sentence written in bold at the top of each item.

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Advertising should be banned as it is a form of indoctrination.

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A. Indoctrination should be banned because it is caused by advertisement.

B. Because advertising indoctrinates, it should be banned.

C. Advertising which indoctrinates should be banned.

D. Advertising indoctrination should be banned.

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The principal said she might just as well remain at the college for another year.

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a. The principal said she might remain at the college because she had no other choice.

b. The principal said that remaining at college for a year was probably best.

c. The principal said she would be no worse off if she remained at the college.

d. The principal said she ought to remain at the college in order to do well.

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Except for a two-hour visit each Saturday from my family, for seven months the people at Chit Chat were the only people I came in contact with.

Select one:

A. For seven months I saw no one but the people at Chit Chat.

B. The people at Chit Chat and my family are the only humans with whom I had contact for seven months

C. I came in contact with only the people at Chit Chat and my family every Saturday for seven months.

D. I saw only my family for seven months while I was at Chit Chat.

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In his book The World Needs Its Forests, an American ecologist links the two ideas of deforestation and development.

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A. In his book The World Needs Its Forests, the American author states that development and deforestation depend on each other.

B. The author of The World Needs Its Forests states that we cannot have development if we do not have deforestation.

C. The reader finds a connection between deforestation and development when he reads the book The World Needs Its Forests.

D. If we doubt that the world should connect deforestation and development, we need to read the book The World Needs Its Forests.

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There are plans for massive hotels and recreational areas, all of this to fit into an island which is just six km wide and seven km long.

Select one:

A. The island which was six km wide and seven km long was perhaps big enough to accommodate the plans.

B. Everything could be accommodated if the island was stretched to be six km wide and seven km long.

C. It is unbelievable that the island, though only six km wide and seven km long, was expected to accommodate all the planned construction.

D. The island could not be expected to accommodate everything planned unless it was six km wide and seven km long.

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