Q. 1
She was _______ success and eager to create a name for herself.
- a. deprecatory toward
- b. impatient for
- c. querulous about
- d. sated by
- e. impassive to
- Answer: B
Q. 2
Since what constitutes a proper diet remains a _______ subject on which few experts agree, additional research is _______.
- a. controversial.. required
- b. neglected.. deplored
- c. popular.. unexpected
- d. favored.. prohibited
- e. complex.. redundant
- Answer: A
Q. 3
Although the Civil War _______ much of South’s railroad network, it _______ the growth of railroads in the North and West.
- a. eliminated.. decreased
- b. accounted for.. encouraged
- c. displaced.. dismantled
- d. destroyed.. stimulated
- e. depended on.. established
- Answer: D
Q. 4
Diversity is essential in spite of the fact that it _______ universal acceptance of a single doctrine.
- a. underlies
- b. reserves
- c. presupposes
- d. entails
- e. precludes
- Answer: E
Q. 5
He makes his attack with a massive display of scholarship but no great _______; all to often the _______ rather than the rapier is his chosen weapon.
- a. pedantry.. bomb
- b. elaboration.. axe
- c. emphasis.. pen
- d. discrimination.. dart
- e. subtlety.. bludgeon
- Answer: A
Q. 6
Her sense of time was oddly _______; ten minutes sometimes seemed like an hour.
- a. credible
- b. distorted
- c. idealized
- d. consistent
- e. formidable
- Answer: B
Q. 7
Narrowing the eyes when startled by a sudden noise or a noxious stimulus is _______ response, serving to reduce the exposure of sense organs to injury.
- a. an imaginative
- b. a protective
- c. a corrective
- d. a therapeutic
- e. a therapeutic
- Answer: E
Q. 8
As a people, the Aztecs were full of contradictions; _______ and yet prizing humility, _______ and yet obliging and kind.
- a. arrogant.. benevolent
- b. pious.. gallant
- c. provincial.. sullen
- d. tolerant.. competitive
- e. proud.. implacable
- Answer: E
Q. 9
His brilliant prose style is sometimes _______ by his lapses into _______ respecting and pretentious languages.
- a. achieved.. facile
- b. extended.. whimsical
- c. disrupted.. understated
- d. anticipated.. personal
- e. marred.. banal
- Answer: E
Q. 10
The study crowds and groups is more than _______ in an age characterized by interdependence and _______ action.
- a. academic.. collective
- b. difficult.. intellectual
- c. vigorous.. assertive
- d. erudite.. formal
- e. general.. specific
- Answer: A
Q. 11
My suggestions was not so casual as it appeared; I _______ mentioned the election because I know that she wanted to discuss it.
- a. ineptly
- b. incessantly
- c. inadvertently
- d. intentionally
- e. inconsiderately
- Answer: D
Q. 12
Bureaucratic squabbles can tie up the government for years and _______ domestic and international problems to the point of _______.
- a. magnify.. manageability
- b. reduce.. indignation
- c. intensity.. crisis
- d. weaken.. nonexistence
- e. simplify.. triviality
- Answer: C
Q. 13
Though there was much _______ among critics over whether or not the play portrayed the “real” Paul Robeson, James Earl Jones’s performance ws _______ deemed outstanding by audiences and critics.
- a. commentary.. silently
- b. controversy.. unanimously
- c. harassment.. evasively
- d. disappointment.. instructively
- e. discussion.. privately
- Answer: B
Q. 14
Today science, like philosophy, has been _______ in scope: each has _______ its claim to survey all existence and has accepted a province which, it great, is yet smaller than the whole.
- a. limited.. reiterated
- b. narrowed.. resigned
- c. expanded.. repudiated
- d. fluctuating.. denied
- e. receding.. amplified
- Answer: B
Q. 15
Extremist advocates of the occult claim that existing systems of scientific though must at least be modified, it not _______.
- a. evaluated
- b. supplemented
- c. incorporated
- d. implemented
- e. overturned
- Answer: E