Q. 1
It is ironic and somehow tragic that good people are often dull while evil people can be endlessly _______.
- a. ordinary
- b. stubborn
- c. skeptical
- d. fascinating
- e. unobtrusive
- Answer: D
Q. 2
Because most of them lack recreational facilities, high rise apartments have been criticized in recent years as _______ for families with children.
- a. unsuitable
- b. degrading
- c. important
- d. inevitable
- e. appropriate
- Answer: A
Q. 3
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which graphically exposed the _______ of the indiscriminate use of pesticides, is widely credited with having _______ the modern environmental movement.
- a. advantages.. inaugurated
- b. hazards.. defused
- c. benefits.. launched
- d. deaths.. contained
- e. dangers.. inspired
- Answer: E
Q. 4
Having turned out forty solo recordings, this hardworking harpsichordist can almost be classed as _______.
- a. a contradiction
- b. a sluggard
- c. an apprentice
- d. an event
- e. an industry
- Answer: E
Q. 5
It is impossible for a serious scholar to condone this _______ dismissal of respected theories.
- a. astute
- b. cavalier
- c. sagacious
- d. necessary
- e. commendable
- Answer: B
Q. 6
Harrying the foe with artillery fire and _______ them with fire ships, the English forced the Spanish to _______ their invasion attempt.
- a. dispersing .. abandon
- b. ramming .. confirm
- c. restricting .. rebuff
- d. helping .. reconsider
- e. reinforcing .. ignore
- Answer: A
Q. 7
Fortunately, Ms. Mason has the unusual ability to transform a tedious legal contention into an _______ account.
- a. arid
- b. erratic
- c. improbable
- d. absorbing
- e. interminable
- Answer: D
Q. 8
The descriptions in these essays range widely, from the fanciful to the matter-of-fact, from the _______ to the fatuous, from the objective to the _______.
- a. witty.. realistic
- b. meager.. descriptive
- c. insightful.. impressionistic
- d. inane. commonplace
- e. articulate.. empirical
- Answer: C
Q. 9
Students who interpret the honor strictly find it _______ that some bright students complete take-home examinations for less proficient friends.
- a. remedial
- b. irreproachable
- c. unconscionable
- d. irrelevant
- e. magnanimous
- Answer: C
Q. 10
The discovery that interstellar _______ exist _______ the scientific hypothesis that the expanses between the stars are devoid of matter.
- a. galaxies.. revived
- b. constellations.. prompted
- c. molecules.. demolished
- d. vastness.. challenged
- e. Vacuums. Altered
- Answer: C
Q. 11
Although the colonist resented the new British laws, they _______ them as long as England did not _______ them too strenuously.
- a. rejected.. define
- b. amended.. follow
- c. tolerated.. enforce
- d. defied.. interpret
- e. welcomed.. observe
- Answer: C
Q. 12
As the best-informed and most dispassionate of the panel members, Dr. Camila Torrez was the most ---- of those offering views on fission technology.
- a. unsuspecting
- b. preposterous
- c. persuasive
- d. confusing
- e. temperamental
- Answer: C
Q. 13
He was _______ in his vindictiveness, often feigning a disarming camaraderie while _______ his opportunity for revenge.
- a. impulsive.. gauging
- b. harmless.. preparing
- c. resolute.. forgetting
- d. brazen.. dreading
- e. devious.. awaiting
- Answer: E
Q. 14
Those who seek the advice of scientists in this matter should recognize that, because the knowledge available is _______. The reliability of the advice cannot be _______.
- a. technical.. documented
- b. coherent.. explained
- c. explicit.. understood
- d. inadequate.. guaranteed
- e. extraneous.. denied
- Answer: D
Q. 15
The _______ of modernist architecture _______ the natural human desire to celebrate the decorate, to take delight in ornament.
- a. elaborateness.. neglects
- b. austerity.. recognize
- c. embellishment.. undermines
- d. severity.. opposes
- e. uniformity.. reflects
- Answer: D