QOD 27/1/2012

1.

The black hole has entered the popular imagination as

  an object too massive that neither light nor matter can

  escape its gravitational pull.

  (A) too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its

  (B) too massive for either allowing light or matter to

      escape its

  (C) massive enough that either light or matter cannot

      escape their

  (D) so massive that neither light nor matter could

      escape their

  (E) so massive that neither light nor matter can escape its

2.

Selling several hundred thousand copies in six months,

  the publication of “Maple Leaf Rag” in 1899 was an

  instant hit, helping to establish Scott Joplin as the

  preeminent ragtime composer.

  (A) Selling several hundred thousand copies in six

      months, the publication of “Maple Leaf Rag”

      in 1899 was an instant hit, helping to establish

      Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime

      composer.

  (B) The publication in 1899 of “Maple Leaf Rag”

      was an instant hit: in six months they sold

      several hundred thousand copies and it helped

      establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime

      composer.

  (C)) Helping to establish Scott Joplin as the preemi-

       nent ragtime composer was the publication of

       “Maple Leaf Rag” in 1899, which was an

       instant hit: it sold several hundred thousand

       copies in six months.

  (D) “Maple Leaf Rag” was an instant hit: it helped

       establish Scott Joplin as the preeminent ragtime

       composer, published in 1899 and selling sev-

       eral hundred thousand copies in six months.

  (E) Published in 1899, “Maple Leaf Rag” was an

      instant hit, selling several hundred thousand

      copies in six months: it helped establish Scott

      Joplin as the preeminent ragtime composer.