1. A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling______the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
(A) facilitates
(B) averts
(C) neutralizes
(D) implies
(E) represses
2. A good doctor knows that knowledge about medicine will continue to ______and that, therefore, formal professional training can never be an _______ guide to good practice.
(A) vary.. adaptable
(B) change.. absolute
(C) ossify.. inflexible
(D) pertain.. invaluable
(E) intensify.. obsolescent
3. A human being is quite _______ creature, for the gloss of rationality that covers his or her fears and _______ is thin and often easily breached.
(A) a logical.. problems
(B) a frail.. insecurity
(C) a valiant.. phobias
(D) an ambitious.. morality
(E) a ludicrous.. laughter
4. A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is______, in that it combines concepts that should be kept______.
(A) obscure.. interrelated
(B) specialized.. intact
(C) subtle.. inviolate
(D) descriptive.. separate
(E) imprecise.. discrete
5. A major goal of law, to deter potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers, is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it______to be a ______threat.
(A) tends.. serious
(B) appears.. real
(C) ceases.. credible
(D) fails.. deceptive
(E) seems.. coercive
6. A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more _______ the ideas.
(A) complicated
(B) inconsequential
(C) elementary
(D) fanciful
(E) blatant
7. A number of writers who once greatly _______ the literary critic have recently recanted, substituting _______ for their former criticism.
(A) lauded.. censure
(B) influenced.. analysis
(C) simulated.. ambivalence
(D) disparaged.. ap