1. Created to serve as perfectly1 as possible their workaday----, the wooden storage boxes made in America's Shaker communities are now----for
their beauty.
(A) environment.. accepted
(B) owners.. employed
(C) function.. valued
(D) reality.. transformed
(E) image.. seen
2. In order to----her theory that the reactions are ----, the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.
(A) support.. different
(B) comprehend.. constant
(C) evaluate.. concentrated
(D) capture.. valuable
(E) demonstrate.. problematic
3. The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to----accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.
(A) insular
(B) investigative
(C) synoptic
(D) subjective2
(E) sensational3
4. William James lacked the usual----death; writing to his dying father, he spoke4 without----about the old man's impending5 death.
(A) longing6 for.. regret
(B) awe7 of.. inhibition
(C) curiosity about.. rancor
(D) apprehension8 of.. eloquence
(E) anticipation9 of.. commiseration10
5. Current data suggest that, although----states between fear and aggression11 exist, fear and aggression are as distinct physiologically12 as they are psychologically.
(A) simultaneous
(B) serious
(C) exceptional
(D) partial
(E) transitional
6. Famous among job seekers for its----, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed13 on its executives annual bonuses and such----as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.
(A) magnanimity.. reparations
(B) inventiveness.. benefits
(C) largesse14.. perquisites
(D) discernment.. prerogatives
(E) altruism15.. credits
7. There are no solitary16, free-living creatures; every form of life is----other forms.
(A) segregated17 from
(B) parallel to
(C) dependent on
(D) overshadowed by
(E) mimicked18 by
8. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup19 as a matter of----for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to----its own continental20 coastline.
(A) negligence21.. fortify22
(B) custom.. maintain
(C) convenience.. stabilize
(D) expediency23.. defend
(E) exigency24.. reinforce
9. While not completely nonplussed25 by the usually caustic26 responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly----by their lively criticism.
(A) humiliated27
(B) discomfited
(C) deluded
(D) disgraced
(E) tantalized28
10. In eighth-century Japan, people who---- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of----fields.
(A) conserved29.. forested
(B) reclaimed30.. arable
(C) cultivated.. domestic
(D) irrigated31.. accessible
(E) located.. desirable