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Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
1) Nonviolent demonstrations often create such tensions that a community that has constantly refused to _______ its injustices is forced to correct them: the injustices can no longer be _________.
(A) acknowledge, ignored
(B) decrease, verified
(C) tolerate, accepted
(D) address, eliminated
(E) explain, discussed
2) Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen’s novels has oscillated between ________ and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than did most of her literary ________.
(A) dismissal, admirers
(B) adoration, contemporaries
(C) disapproval, readers
(D) indifference, followers
(E) approbation, precursors
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3) There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ______ to the extent that they no longer _______ ecologists.
(A) perfected, hinder
(B) exhausted, interest
(C) prolonged, require
(D) prevented, challenge
(E) delayed, benefit
4) Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which ________ treatments are unsatisfactory.
(A) similar
(B) most
(C) dangerous
(D) uncommon
(E) alternative
5) It was her view that the country’s problems had been ________ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
(A) foreseen
(B) attacked
(C) ascertained
(D) exacerbated
(E) analyzed
6) Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible __________: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.
(A) sincerity
(B) efficiency
(C) virtuosity
(D) rapidity
(E) energy
7) The actual _________ of Wilson’s position was always _______ by his refusal to compromise after having initially agreed to negotiate a settlement.
(A) outcome, foreshadowed
(B) logic, enhanced
(C) rigidity, betrayed
(D) uncertainty, alleviated
(E) cowardice, highlighted
Answer Keys
1 | 2 | 3 |
A | B | B |
4 | 5 | 6 |
E | D | C |
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C |