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45. The correct answer is (A). Since the verb estar is used for location and temporary conditions,
only (A), “in bed,” is a possible choice.
46. The correct answer is (C). When making a comparison that would use an indefinite pronoun in
English, you must use a negative pronoun in Spanish. So you use nadie (no one) for “anyone” in
the sentence, “you know better than anyone that studies are difficult.”
47. The correct answer is (B). Here we need something that means “whose.” Yet the correct choice
cuyos is not really a relative pronoun, but a relative adjective that functions as a pronoun, so that
even though it refers to the author in one sense, it must agree in number and gender with the thing
possessed, in this case libros.
48. The correct answer is (B). You can use the definite article el to avoid the repetition of the noun
perro. So the sentence means “Our dog and the one belonging to the Duarte family are large.”
49. The correct answer is (D). (A) and (D) are the only two possible choices since you need a verb in
the past tense in the first person singular form. (A) is not a possible construction in Spanish.
Instead of le lo you must use se lo, so (D) is the correct choice.
50. The correct answer is (B). Since concierto is a masculine singular noun, your only choices are
(B) and (D). Since “strong” concert makes no sense, the answer is (B).

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51. The correct answer is (C). The formula for the “as __________ as” construction is tan
__________ como, which leaves you with (B) and (C). Since house is feminine, (B) cannot be the
right choice. The comparative construction “more __________ than” is más __________ que.