1.The popularity of pseudoscience and quack medicines in thenineteenth century suggests that people were very ____, but thegullibility of the public today makes citizens of yesterday look likehard-nosed ____.
(A) cautious.. educators
(B) sophisticated.. realists
(C) rational.. pragmatists
(D) naive.. idealists
(E) credulous.. skeptics
2.Having sufficient income of her own constituted for Alice ____independence that made possible a degree of ____ in her emotional lifeas well.
(A) a material.. security
(B) a profound.. conformity
(C) a financial.. economy
(D) a psychological.. extravagance
(E) an unexpected.. uncertainty
3.The success of science is due in great part to its emphasis on____ : the reliance on evidence rather than ____ and the willingness todraw conclusions even when they conflict with traditional beliefs.
(A) causality.. experimentation
(B) empiricism.. facts
(C) objectivity.. preconceptions
(D) creativity.. observation
(E) conservatism.. assumptions
4.Given the failure of independent laboratories to replicate theresults of Dr. Johnson's experiment, only the most ____ supporters ofher hypothesis would be foolish enough to claim that it had beenadequately ____
(A) fastidious.. defined
(B) partisan.. verified
(C) vigilant.. publicized
(D) enlightened.. researched
(E) fervent.. undermined
5.One virus strain that may help gene therapists cure genetic braindiseases can enter the peripheral nervous system and travel to thebrain, ____ the need to inject the therapeutic virus directly into thebrain.
(A) suggesting
(B) intensifying
(C) elucidating
(D) satisfying
(E) obviating
6.Artificial light ____ the respiratory activity of somemicroorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because inthe summer their respiration is already at its peak and thus cannot be____
(A) stimulates.. lessened
(B) inhibits.. quickened
(C) reflects.. expanded
(D) elevates.. measured
(E) enhances.. increased
7.Even those siblings whose childhood was ____ familial feuding andintense rivalry for their parents' affection can nevertheless developcongenial and even ____ relationships with each other in their adultlives.
(A) scarred by.. vitriolic
(B) dominated by.. intimate
(C) filled with.. truculent
(D) replete with.. competitive
(E) devoid of.. tolerant
8.Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and theknowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, someanthropologists have ____ achievements like the sophisticated carvedcalendar sticks of the Winnebago people.
(A) described
(B) acknowledged
(C) overlooked
(D) defended
(E) authenticated
9.Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changingtimes and styles has been constantly ____ over the years, therebyreflecting its own mutability.
(A) appreciated
(B) emulated
(C) criticized
(D) revised
(E) reprinted
10.Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ____ of the blizzard of 1888.
(A) inevitability
(B) ferocity
(C) importance
(D) probability
(E) mildness
11.The architects of New York's early skyscrapers, hinting here at atwelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, soughtto legitimize the city's social strivings by ____ a history the citydid not truly ____.
(A) revealing.. deserve
(B) displaying.. desire
(C) evoking.. possess
(D) preserving.. experience
(E) flouting.. believe
12.Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook forsimplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact sheconstructed with such ____.
(A) astonishment
(B) vexation
(C) allusion
(D) innocence
(E) cunning
13.The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continueto be ____,but will probably be ____ by new ones under development.
(A) fruitful.. reversed
(B) refined.. upgraded
(C) inconvenient.. reassessed
(D) used.. supplemented
(E) harmless.. improved
14.There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose studyhas been ____ to the extent that they no longer ____ ecologists.
(A) perfected.. hinder
(B) exhausted.. interest
(C) prolonged.. require
(D) prevented.. challenge
(E) delayed.. benefit
15.Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the NationalInstitutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correctdiseases for which ____ treatments are unsatisfactory.
(A) similar
(B) most
(C) dangerous
(D) uncommon
(E) alternative
16.The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its ____ provisions, but in its
broader impact: it made the king subject to the law.
(A) specific
(B) revolutionary
(C) implicit
(D) controversial
(E) finite
17.Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ____ on
land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet
to become a ____ enterprise.
(A) scarce. . common
(B) accessible.. marginal
(C) unidentified.. subsidized
(D) conserved . . public
(E) plentiful.. profitable
18.Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to
his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ____ his works.
(A) praise
(B) revile
(C) scrutinize
(D) criticize
(E) neglect
19.Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive bond becomes a
powerful ____ for additional learning since, by ____ the parent, the
duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.
(A) impulse.. surpassing
(B) referent.. recognizing
(C) force.. acknowledging
(D) inspiration.. emulating
(E) channel.. mimicking
20.It is ____ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a
totally ____ disease.
(A) folly.. innocuous
(B) irresponsible.. preventable
(C) crucial.. fatal
(D) instinctive.. devastating
(E) detrimental.. insignificant
21.The legislators of 1563 realized the ____ of trying to regulate the flow of
labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part
of the statute dealt with establishing wages.
(A) intricacy
(B) anxiety
(C) futility
(D) necessity
(E) decadence
22.The ____ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class
Rousseau was all the more ____ because he showed so little respect for
them.
(A) deference.. remarkable
(B) suspicion.. uncanny
(C) reserve.. unexpected
(D) anger.. ironic
(E) appreciation.. deserved
23.The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ____ that
all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ____.
(A) spurned.. boredom
(B) forgotten.. condescension
(C) classified. .self-righteousness
(D) plausible.. guilt
(E) gripping. .skepticism
24.In the design of medical experiments, the need for ____ assignment of
treatments to patients must be ____ the difficulty of persuading patients to
participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.
(A) independent.. amended by
(B) competent.. emphasized by
(C) mechanical.. controlled by
(D) swift. .associated with
(E) random.. reconciled with
25.Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the
art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so
fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison.
(A) amateur's. .sensible
(B) expert's.. erratic
(C) investor's.. booming
(D) insider's.. predictable
(E) artist's.. irrational
26.Read's apology to Heflin was not exactly abject and did little to ____ their
decades-long quarrel, which had been as ____ as the academic etiquette of
scholarly journals permitted.
(A) encourage.. sporadic
(B) dampen.. courteous
(C) obscure.. ceremonious
(D) resolve.. acrimonious
(E) blur.. sarcastic
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1.Although the architect’s concept at first sounded too ____ to be ____ , his
careful analysis of every aspect of the project convinced the panel that the
proposed building was indeed, structurally feasible.
(A) mundane.. attractive
(B) eclectic.. appealing
(C) grandiose.. affordable
(D) innovative.. ignored
(E) visionary.. practicable
2.If efficacious new medicines have side effects that are commonly observed
and ____, such medicines are too often considered ____, even when
laboratory tests suggest caution.
(A) unremarkable.. safe
(B) unpredictable.. reliable
(C) frequent.. outdated
(D) salutary.. experimental
(E) complicated.. useful
3. The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are
evidence that the medieval ____ natural settings had been ____ and that
the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.
(A) fear of.. exorcised
(B) concerns about.. regained
(C) affection for.. surmounted
(D) disinterest in.. alleviated
(E) enthusiasm for.. confronted
4. Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ____
since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record
only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been
either ____ or decreased diversity.
(A) changed.. escalation
(B) increased.. stasis
(C) expanded.. discontinuity
(D) declined.. reduction
(E) improved.. deviation
5. Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using
hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether
hormones that ____ in the laboratory can affect ____ organisms, and in
predictable ways.
(A) develop.. similar
(B) succeed.. simple
(C) fail.. cellular
(D) work.. whole
(E) reproduce.. unknown
6. The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious activity and
the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the
1870’s ____ any assertion that feminism was ____ in that period.
(A) exclude.. thriving
(B) contradict.. prospering
(C) pervade.. remote
(D) buttress.. dormant
(E) belie.. quiescent
7. Jones was unable to recognize, the contradictions in his attitudes that were
obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was ____ to him, but
he ____ serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.
(A) acceptable.. risked
(B) exciting.. averted
(C) repugnant.. courted
(D) anathema.. evaded
(E) tempting.. hazarded
8. Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 film ____ the
filmmaker’s active involvement in feminist politics.
(A) preserved
(B) portrayed
(C) encouraged
(D) renewed
(E) antedated
9. The chances that a species will ____ are reduced if any vital function is
restricted to a single kind of organ;____ by itself possesses an enormous
survival advantage.
(A) degenerate.. complexity
(B) expire.. size
(C) disappear.. variety
(D) flourish.. symmetry
(E) persist.. redundancy
10. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data
accumulated are not directly ____ to environmental questions; thus a new
program of research specifically addressing such questions is ____.
(A) analogous.. promising
(B) transferable.. contradictory
(C) antithetical.. unremarkable
(D) applicable.. warranted
(E) pertinent.. unnecessary
11. In response to the follies of today's commercial and political worlds, the
author does not ____ inflamed indignation, but rather ____ the
detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
(A) display.. rails at
(B) rely on.. avoids
(C) suppress.. clings to
(D) express.. affects
(E) resort to.. spurns
12. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people
attain mental health, seems to be looking for ____ answers: a way to
close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.
(A) definitive
(B) confused
(C) temporary
(D) personal
(E) derivative
13. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could
be an effective ____ to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of
employers with poor safety records.
(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive
14. In retrospect, Gordon's students appreciated her ____ assignments,
realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to ____ original
thought rather than to review the content of her course.
(A) didactic.. ingrain
(B) intimidating.. thwart
(C) difficult.. discourage
(D) conventional.. explicate
(E) enigmatic.. stimulate
15.The insecticide proved ____; by killing the weak adults of a species, it
assured that the strong ones would mate among themselves and produce
offspring still more ____ to its effects.
(A) ineffective.. hostile
(B) cruel.. vulnerable
(C) feasible.. susceptible
(D) necessary.. immune
(E) counterproductive.. resistant
16. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our
belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined.
(A) complex
(B) distant
(C) vivid
(D) mysterious
(E) mundane
17. The technical know-how, if not the political ____, appears already at hand
to feed the world's exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient
scourges of malnutrition and famine.
(A) will.. weaken
(B) expertise.. articulate
(C) doubt.. banish
(D) power.. denounce
(E) commitment.. eradicate
18. In small farming communities, accident victims rarely sue or demand
compensation: transforming a personal injury into a ____ someone else is
viewed as an attempt to ____ responsibility for one's own actions.
(A) conspiracy against.. assume
(B) claim against.. elude
(C) boon for.. minimize
(D) distinction for.. shift
(E) trauma for.. proclaim
19. The pungent verbal give-and-take among the characters makes the novel
____ reading, and this very ____ suggests to me that some of the opinions
voiced may be the author's.
(A) disturbing.. flatness
(B) tedious. inventiveness
(C) lively.. spiritedness
(D) necessary.. steadiness
(E) rewarding.. frivolousness
20. The fortresslike facade of the Museum of Cartoon Art seems calculated to
remind visitors that the comic strip is an art form that has often been ____
by critics.
(A) charmed
(B) assailed
(C) unnoticed
(D) exhilarated
(E) overwhelmed
21. It is difficult to distinguish between the things that charismatic figures do
____ and those that are carefully contrived for effect.
(A) formally
(B) publicly
(C) prolifically
(D) spontaneously
(E) willfully
22. The development of containers, possibly made from bark or the skins of
animals, although this is a matter of ____, allowed the extensive sharing of
forage foods in prehistoric human societies.
(A) record
(B) fact
(C) degree
(D) importance
(E) conjecture
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