Q. 1
Despite her fear of heights, she was _______ to be so far up the mountain
- a. dismayed
- b. thrilled
- c. unwilling
- d. ashamed
- e. alarmed
- Answer: B
Q. 2
Many of Eleanor-Roosevelt’s harshest critics during the years she lived in the White House late _______ her compassion for all people and praised her work to _______ social justice.
- a. reemphasized.. spread
- b. acknowledged.. promote
- c. vindicated.. dispel
- d. overlooked.. declare
- e. denied.. repress
- Answer: B
Q. 3
Eric maintained the poet, perhaps the most _______ of the Romantic and thus most likely to be ruled by emotion, nevertheless may have possessed a greater capacity for _______ than his famous contemporaries.
- a. severe.. feeling
- b. passionate.. discipline
- c. exuberant.. enjoyment
- d. delicate.. exaggeration
- e. ruminative.. observation
- Answer: B
Q. 4
Freedom for Hanson meant experiencing _______ previously _______; once unable to do more than peer over prison walls, he could now wander wherever he pleased.
- a. a visibility.. unexpected
- b. a mobility.. unattainable
- c. an incarceration.. unknown
- d. an isolation.. threatening
- e. a notoriety.. inconceivable
- Answer: B
Q. 5
The puzzles that physicists solve are usually those lying about in plain sight, often things so _______ that they are overlooked by all but the keenest observers.
- a. hidden
- b. ordinary
- c. vital
- d. vague
- e. small
- Answer: B
Q. 6
The attorney general was _______ woman, and even on those _______ occasions where she did lose her temper, she quickly regined her natural imperturbability.
- a. a trying.. rare
- b. a peaceable.. infrequent
- c. an informed.. memorable
- d. a belligerent.. challenging
- e. an inarticulate .. particular
- Answer: B
Q. 7
The metric system is deliberately designed to be simple arithmetically and yet capable of _______ expansion as it becomes necessary to _______ new units of measure.
- a. confusing.. record
- b. indefinite.. invent
- c. mathematical.. memorize
- d. rigid.. discard
- e. limited.. correct
- Answer: B
Q. 8
Carios Saura is not given to explicit statement; his films, which seem hazy because of their psychological _______.
- a. causality
- b. allusiveness
- c. poignancy
- d. conditioning
- e. ardor
- Answer: B
Q. 9
Instances of reticence in the ancient chronicler’s recording of calamitous events may simply be an indication of _______ to appear critical of the pharaoh’s handling of such _______ situations.
- a. predisposition.. stressful
- b. reluctance.. adverse
- c. refusal.. promising
- d. tendency.. catastrophic
- e. aversion.. trivial
- Answer: B
Q. 10
“Meaning” and “truth” are profound and yet _______ pms, for they seem to resist even out most determined attempts at definitive explanation.
- a. equivocal
- b. manageable
- c. insignificant
- d. unwarranted
- e. tractable
- Answer: A
Q. 11
A number of American Indian nations have moved to _______ and operate their own private college in response to the perceived inadequacies of mainstream higher education:
- a. establish
- b. educate
- c. restrict
- d. foreclose
- e. examine
- Answer: A
Q. 12
In her crusade to make public servants accountable to voters, she _______ the nation’s unscrupulous and self-indulgent politicians.
- a. exposed
- b. dramatized
- c. accepted
- d. foreshadowed
- e. promoted
- Answer: A
Q. 13
In an effort to _______ the sensations of flight during raining sessions, computer technicians electronically _______ images realistic enough to convince pilots, at least momentarily, that they are actually flying.
- a. bunteract.. project
- b. mulate.. compose
- c. raggerate.. reproduce
- d. duplicate.. erase
- e. iminate.. devise
- Answer: B
Q. 14
Until the nineteenth century, history was largely written by private scholars and literary amateurs and was not seen as an _______, but rather as a branch of iterator.
- a. artifact
- b. entity
- c. offshoot
- d. accomplishment
- e. undertaking
- Answer: B
Q. 15
Some philosophers believe that what we call reality items from our education and is, therefore, merely we _______ of our own _______.
- a. syntheis.. innateness
- b. consequence.. conditioning
- c. antithesis.. heritage
- d. personification.. understanding
- e. awareness.. observation
- Answer: B