Please check my answers to the following grammar test.


1. As the report has shown, ______________ shorter words and sentences does not necessarily make a passage easy to read.
(A) writers use (B) in using (C) when suing (D) using
2. _____________ in part because we respond intentionally to symbols.
(A) Advertising works (B) There is advertising working
(C) It works as advertising (D) It is advertising that works
3. The factory employee who _____________ absent frequently was notified by his supervisor that he would not have to come to work again.
(A) had been (B) has been (C) had (D) has
4. Perhaps the best use of color ______________ in the weather maps printed daily in many newspapers.
(A) occurring (B) occurs (C) that occurs (D) occurred
5. Even if you stay in the United States and Canada, you will work with people ___________ backgrounds differ from yours.
(A) with whom (B) in which (C) when (D) whose

My answers are as written.
1. D
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. D