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[lemon9]

Please tell me �how� to choose correct one and eliminate others error answer.
Thanks!!!

1.Documentary evidence of the economic damage ________ has only recently become available.-----------------------------------------------------A
(A)caused by these animals
(B)these animals cause it
(C)causing these animals
2.I think that the labor bill will pass; it�s _______ that it will.-------------C
(A)almost surely
(B)near positive
(C)very likely
(D)quite certainly
3.A body weighs _______ from the surface of the Earth.-------------------C
(A)the farther it gets, the less
(B)less than it gets farther
(C)less the farther it gets
(D)less than its, the farther it gets
4._________ was the first fully successful transatlantic cable finally laid.------------A
(A)Not until 1886
(B)Until 1886
(C)Until 1866, just
(D)In 1866, not until
5.Out ______, with a jump that carried them at once into the very heart of a huge snow pie.-----------------------------------------------------C
(A)the two children went
(B)did the two children go
(C)went the two children
(D)the two children are going

[Anuradha Chepur]

This one is a structure-based test. Your language-competence will intuitively rule out the wrong choices and select the right one.

In a test based on vocabulary, logic, analogy, etc., there are tricks and strategies to rule out wrong answers or choose right answers. But in a structure-based one, I don't think this is not possible.