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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) Although providing wild chimpanzees with food makes them less ————- and easier to study, it is also known to ———- their normal social patterns.
(A) interesting, reinforce
(B) manageable, upset
(C) shy, disrupt
(D) poised, inhibit
(E) accessible, retard
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2) There is something ———- about the way the building of monasteries proliferated in eighteenth-century Bavaria, while in the rest of the Western world religious ardor was ———— and church building was consequently declining.
(A) enigmatic, coalescing
(B) destructive, changing
(C) immutable, dissipating
(D) incongruous, diminishing
(E) momentous, diversifying
3) Because they had various meanings in nineteenth-century biological thought, “mechanism” and “vitalism” ought not to be considered ———- terms; thus, I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely ——— .
(A) univocal, erroneous
(B) problematic, anachronistic
(C) intractable, obtuse
(D) congruent, suspect
(E) multifaceted, vapid
4) Many Americans believe that individual initiative epitomized the 1890’s and see the entrepreneur as the ———- of that age.
(A) caricature
(B) salvation
(C) throwback
(D) aberration
(E) personification
5) Neither the ideas of philosophers nor the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves, ———- reality; what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the ———- of the two.
(A) constitute, divergence
(B) affect, aim
(C) transform, interplay
(D) preserve, conjunction
(E) alter, intervention
6) There has been a tendency among art historians not so much to revise as to eliminate the concept of the Renaissance—to ———- not only its uniqueness, but its very existence.
(A) explain
(B) extol
(C) transmute
(D) regret
(E) contest
7) Employees had become so inured to the caprices of top management’s personnel policies that they greeted the announcement of a company-wide dress code with———-
(A) astonishment
(B) impassivity
(C) resentment
(D) apprehension
(E) confusion
Answer Keys
1 | 2 | 3 |
C | D | A |
4 | 5 | 6 |
E | C | E |
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B |