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A multiple chioce question.

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0 Are the word "equal" and "equivalent" used only with countable nouns?02br
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01cite10Grammarian-bot12cite10<!--[if !supportLists]-->101.10 10<!--[endif]-->According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the 111210 are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about 11u
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0 What are you supposed to do? Find a synonymous expression for the underlined words? Choice A looks exactly the same. That's puzzling.02br
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00 In any case, if you choose C, what's going to be the antecedent for 01i00those02i00? That's going to cause some confusion.02br
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00The first chice for such questions (in GMAT) is always the same as that of the underlined clause in the question.02br
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