11. In response to the follies1 of today's commercial and political worlds, the
author does not ____ inflamed2 indignation, but rather ____ the
detachment and smooth aphoristic3 prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
(A) display.. rails at
(B) rely on.. avoids
(C) suppress.. clings to
(D) express.. affects
(E) resort to.. spurns4
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) derivative5
13. Imposing6 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) incentive7
14. In retrospect8, 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) intimidating9.. thwart
(C) difficult.. discourage
(D) conventional.. explicate
(E) enigmatic.. stimulate10
15.The insecticide proved ____; by killing11 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.. resistant12
16. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our
belief that the present is the true locus13 of experience is undermined.
(A) complex
(B) distant
(C) vivid
(D) mysterious
(E) mundane14
17. The technical know-how15, if not the political ____, appears already at hand
to feed the world's exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient
scourges16 of malnutrition17 and famine.
(A) will.. weaken
(B) expertise18.. articulate
(C) doubt.. banish
(D) power.. denounce
(E) commitment.. eradicate19
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) conspiracy20 against.. assume
(B) claim against.. elude
(C) boon21 for.. minimize
(D) distinction for.. shift
(E) trauma22 for.. proclaim
19. The pungent23 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.. frivolousness24
20. The fortresslike facade25 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 contrived26 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
forage27 foods in prehistoric28 human societies.
(A) record
(B) fact
(C) degree
(D) importance
(E) conjecture
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