11.The architects of New York's early skyscrapers1, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the city's social strivings by ____ a history the city did not truly ____.
(A) revealing.. deserve
(B) displaying.. desire
(C) evoking2.. possess
(D) preserving.. experience
(E) flouting3.. believe
12.Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such ____.
(A) astonishment4
(B) vexation
(C) allusion5
(D) innocence6
(E) cunning
13.The techniques now available to livestock7 breeders will continue to be ____,but will probably be ____ by new ones under development.
(A) fruitful.. reversed
(B) refined.. upgraded
(C) inconvenient8.. reassessed
(D) used.. supplemented
(E) harmless.. improved
14.There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems9 whose study has been ____ to the extent that they no longer ____ ecologists.
(A) perfected.. hinder
(B) exhausted10.. interest
(C) prolonged.. require
(D) prevented.. challenge
(E) delayed.. benefit
15.Under ethical11 guidelines recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human genes12 are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which ____ treatments are unsatisfactory.
(A) similar
(B) most
(C) dangerous
(D) uncommon13
(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 relatively14 inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet
to become a ____ enterprise.
(A) scarce. . common
(B) accessible.. marginal
(C) unidentified.. subsidized
(D) conserved15 . . public
(E) plentiful16.. profitable
18.Although the passage of years has softened17 the initially18 hostile reaction to
his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ____ his works.
(A) praise
(B) revile19
(C) scrutinize
(D) criticize
(E) neglect
19.Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive20 bond becomes a
powerful ____ for additional learning since, by ____ the parent, the
duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically21 transmitted.
(A) impulse.. surpassing
(B) referent.. recognizing
(C) force.. acknowledging
(D) inspiration.. emulating
(E) channel.. mimicking22
20.It is ____ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a
totally ____ disease.
(A) folly23.. innocuous
(B) irresponsible.. preventable
(C) crucial.. fatal
(D) instinctive.. devastating
(E) detrimental24.. insignificant
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