Friday GMAT Quizzing 8- Instead Of vs Rather Than

Click the correct answers! For detailed solutions, please post your queries in GMAT Verbal Forum. Today’s questions are based on the difference between instead of and rather than.


1. A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.






2. Because the Earth’s crust is more solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West.






3. In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday, believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made overproductive by advances in technology.






4. In metalwork one advantage of adhesive-bonding over spot-welding is that the contact, and hence the bonding, is effected continuously over a broad surface instead of a series of regularly spaced points with no bonding in between.






5. Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to a hotel.








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