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1.It is refreshing to read a book about our planet by an author who does not allow facts to be by politics: well aware of the political disputes about the effects of human activities on climate and biodiversity, this author does not permit them to ______ his comprehensive description of what we know about our biosphere. He emphasizes the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations, and the , calling attention to the many aspects of planetary evolution that must be better understood before we can accurately diagnose the condition of our planet.
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Aovershadowed D enhance G plausibility of our hypotheses
Binvalidated E obscure H certainty of our entitlement C illuminated F underscore I superficiality of our theories
2.Vain and prone to violence, Caravaggio could not handle success: the more his ________ as an artist increased, the more his life became.
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Atemperance D tumultuous
Bnotoriety E providential
Ceminence F dispassionate
3.In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden sea.
Apermanently
Bimperceptibly
Cirregularly
Dprecariously
Erelentlessly
4.Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the work as .
Aorthodox
Beccentric
Coriginal
Dtrifling
Econventional
Finnovative
5.It was her view that the country’s problems had been by foreign technocrats, so that to ask for such assistance again would be counterproductive.
Aameliorated
Bascertained
Cdiagnosed
Dexacerbated
Eoverlooked
Fworsened
6.Dominant interests often benefit most from of governmental interference in business, since they are able to take care of themselves if left alone.
Aintensification
Bauthorization
Ccentralization
Dimprovisation
Eelimination
7.Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ________ signs of adolescent anxiety.
Aprophetic
Bnormal
Cmonotonous
Dvirtual
Etypical
8.An investigation that is can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction. A timely
Bunguided
Cconsistent
Duncomplicated
Esubjective
9.It is that so many portrait paintings hang in art museums, since the subject matter seems to dictate a status closer to pictures in the family photograph album than to high art. But perhaps it is the artistic skill with which the portraits are painted that their presence in art museums.
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Asurprising D challenges
Bunderstandable E justifies
Cirrelevant F changes
10.In stark contrast to his later , Simpson was largely politics during his college years, despite the fact that the campus he attended was rife with political activity.
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Aactivism D devoted to
Bapathy E indifferent to
Caffability F shaped by
11.As my eyesight began to , I spent a lot of time writing about it — both poems and “eye journals” — describing what I saw as I looked out through damaged eyes. A deteriorate
Bsharpen
Cimprove
Ddecline
Erecover
Fadjust
12.The judge’s standing in the legal community, though shaken by phony allegations of wrongdoing, emerged, at long last, .
Aunqualified
Bundiminished
Cundecided
Dundamaged
Eunresolved
Funprincipled
13.Modern agricultural practices have been extremely successful in increasing the productivity of major food crops, yet despite heavy use of pesticides, losses to diseases and insect pests are sustained each year.
Aincongruous
Breasonable
Csignificant
Dconsiderable
Eequitable
Ffortuitous
14.It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be .
Apredictable
Bunexpected
Cadmirable
Dexplicit
Econfusing
15.Like Béla Bartók, Ruth Crawford not only brought a composer’s acumen to the notation of folk music, she also had a marked the task. This was clear in her agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text, and this makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology.
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Areverence for D fastidiousness
Bdetachment from E didacticism
Ccuriosity about F iconoclasm
16.Political advertising may well be the most kind of advertising: political candidates are usually quite , yet their campaign advertisements often hide important differences behind smoke screens of smiles and empty slogans.
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Apolemical D interchangeable
Beffective E dissimilar
Cdeceptive F vocal
17.Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War had invention. He said, research, the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unless we can original ideas, we will not have invention,” Mr. Russell said. Speculating on the state of innovation over the next century, several inventors agreed that the future lay in giving children the tools to think creatively and the motivation to invent.
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Abeen at the expense of D in addition to restricting G evaluate
Bno bearing on E aside from supporting H protect
Ccome through F far from exaggerating I disseminate
18.Statements presented as fact in a patent application are unless a good reason for doubt is found. The invention has only to be deemed “more likely than not” to work in order to receive initial approval. And, although thousands of patents are challenged in court for other reasons, no incentive exists for anyone to expend effort _________ the science of an erroneous patent. For this reason the endless stream of _______ devices will continue to yield occasional patents.
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Apresumed verifiable D corroborating G novel
Bcarefully scrutinized E advancing H bogus
Cconsidered capricious F debunking I obsolete
19.Ever a demanding reader of the fiction of others, the novelist Chase was likewise often the object of analyses by his contemporaries.
Aexacting
Bcopious
Crespectful
Dacerbic
Escathing
Fmeticulous
20.Her should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.
Astinginess
Bdiffidence
Cfrugality
Dilliberality
Eintolerance
Fthrift
21.A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more the ideas.
Acomplicated
Bengaged
Cessential
Dfanciful
Einconsequential
Finvolved
22.For some time now, has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.
Arationality
Bflexibility
Cdiffidence
Ddisinterestedness
Einsincerity
23.Human nature and long distances have made exceeding the speed limit a ________ in the state, so the legislators surprised no one when, acceding to public demand, they increased penalties for speeding.
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Acontroversial habit D endorsed
Bcherished tradition E considered
Cdisquieting ritual F rejected
24.Serling’s account of his employer’s reckless decision making that company’s image as bureaucracy full of wary managers.
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Abelies D an injudicious
Bexposes E a disorganized
Covershadows F a cautious
25.No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for __________, and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet’s fourth book in six years — an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound , his poetry is as thorny as ever.
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Apatent accessibility D penitential austerity G taciturnity
Bintrinsic frivolity E intractable prolixity H volubility
Cnear impenetrability F impetuous prodigality I pellucidity
26.Managers who think that strong environmental performance will their company’s financial performance often claims that systems designed to help them manage environmental concerns are valuable tools. By contrast, managers who perceive environmental performance to be to financial success may view an environmental management system as extraneous. In either situation, and whatever their perceptions, it is a manager’s commitment to achieving environmental improvement rather than the mere presence of a system that determines environmental performance.
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Aeclipse D uncritically accept G complementary
Bbolster E appropriately acknowledge H intrinsic
Cdegrade F hotly dispute I peripheral
27.Philosophy, unlike most other subjects, does not try to extend our knowledge by discovering new information about the world. Instead it tries to deepen our understanding through what is already closest to us — the experiences, thoughts, concepts, and activities that make up our lives but that ordinarily escape our notice precisely because they are so familiar. Philosophy begins by finding __________ the things that are .
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Aattainment of D essentially irrelevant G most prosaic
Brumination on E utterly mysterious H somewhat hackneyed
Cdetachment from F thoroughly commonplace I refreshingly novel
28.The government’s implementation of a new code of ethics appeared intended to shore up the ruling party’s standing with an increasingly electorate at a time when the party is besieged by charges that it trades favors for campaign money. A aloof
Bplacid
Crestive
Dskittish
Etranquil
Fvociferous
29.Overlarge, uneven, and ultimately disappointing, the retrospective exhibition seems too much like special pleading for a forgotten painter of real but __________ talents. A limited
Bpartial
Cundiscovered
Dcircumscribed
Eprosaic
Fhidden
30.Newspapers report that the former executive has been trying to keep a low profile since his exit from the company.
Acelebrated
Bmysterious
Clong-awaited
Dfortuitous
Eindecorous
Funseemly
31.In her later years, Bertha Pappenheim was an apostle of noble but already _________ notions, always respected for her integrity, her energy, and her resolve but increasingly out of step and ultimately _________ even her own organization.
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Aanachronistic D emulated by
Baccepted E appreciated by
Cexotic F alienated from
32.The reception given to Kimura’s radical theory of molecular evolution shows that when fights orthodoxy to a draw, then novelty has seized a good chunk of space from convention.
Aimitation
Breaction
Cdogmatism
Dinvention
Ecaution
33.The of Vladimir Nabokov as one of North America’s literary giants has thrown the spotlight on his peripheral activities and has thus served to his efforts as an amateur entomologist.
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Astigmatization D foreground
Blionization E transcend
Cmarginalization F obscure
34.Mathematicians have a distinctive sense of beauty: they strive to present their ideas and results in a clear and compelling fashion, dictated by as well as by logic.
Acaprice
Baesthetics
Cobligation
Dmethodologies
Eintellect
35.Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent often prevents .
Ademur
Bschism
Ccooperation
Dcompliance
Eshortsightedness
36.The novelist devotes so much time to avid descriptions of his characters’ clothes that the reader soon feels that such concerns, although worthy of attention, have superseded any more directly literary aims.
Adidactic
Bsyntactical
Cirrelevant
Dsartorial
Efrivolous
37.Belanger dances with an that draws one’s attention as if by seeking to ________ it; through finesse and understatement, he manages to seem at once intensely present and curiously detached.
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Aundemonstrative panache D focus
Bunrestrained enthusiasm E overwhelm
Cunattractive gawkiness F deflect
38.The most striking thing about the politician is how often his politics have been ______ rather than ideological, as he adapts his political positions at any particular moment to the political realities that constrain him. He does not, however, piously ______ political principles only to betray them in practice. Rather, he attempts in subtle ways to balance his political self-interest with a __________, viewing himself as an instrument of some unchanging higher purpose.
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Aquixotic D brandish G profound cynicism
Bself-righteous E flout H deeply felt moral code
Cstrategic F follow I thoroughgoing pragmatism
39.The plan, which the engineers said would save the aquifer by reducing pumping to ________ levels, has passed a governmental environmental review but faces opposition from outdoor and environmental groups.
Ainnocuous
Bfeasible
Cpracticable
Dminimal
Eremedial
Fbenign
40.Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 film the filmmaker’s active involvement in feminist politics.
Aantedated
Bcloaked
Cportrayed
Dpreceded
Erenewed
Frepresented
41.Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such ______________ assumptions.
Acommonplace
Bdisparate
Cdivergent
Dfundamental
Etrite
Ftrivial
42.During the opera’s most famous aria, the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed , without necessary relation to what had gone before.
Aarbitrary
Bcapricious
Ccautious
Dcompelling
Eexacting
Fmeticulous
43.Because they had expected the spacecraft Voyager 2 to be able to gather data only about the planets Jupiter and Saturn, scientists were the wealth of information it sent back from Neptune twelve years after leaving Earth.
Aanxious for
Bconfident in
Cthrilled about
Dkeen on
Eelated by
Feager for
44.Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything other than a
__________ solution to the company’s financial woes.
Acomplete
Bfleeting
Cmomentary
Dpremature
Etrivial
Ftotal
45.Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of resulting from the carbon atom’s ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
Adiversity
Bdeviation
Cvariety
Dreproduction
Estability
Finvigoration
46.Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on accounts.
Asynoptic
Babridged
Csensational
Dcopious
Elurid
Funderstated
47.Always circumspect, she was reluctant to make judgments, but once arriving at a conclusion, she was in its defense.
Adeferential
Bintransigent
Clax
Dnegligent
Eobsequious
Fresolute
48.Ironically, the writer so wary of was with ink and paper, his novel running to 2,500 shagreen-bound folio pages — a fortune in stationery at the time.
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Aprobity D acquisitive
Bextravagance E illiberal
Cdisapprobation F profligate
49.What readers most commonly remember about John Stuart Mill’s classic exploration of the liberty of thought and discussion concerns the danger of : in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby. Yet Mill had another reason for encouraging the liberty of thought and discussion: the danger of partiality and incompleteness. Since one’s opinions, even under the best circumstances, tend to , and because opinions opposed to one’s own rarely turn out to be completely , it is crucial to supplement one’s opinions with alternative points of view.
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Atendentiousness D embrace only a portion of the truth G erroneous
Bcomplacency E change over time H antithetical C fractiousness F focus on matters close at hand I immutable
50.Just as the authors’ book on eels is often a key text for courses in marine vertebrate zoology, their ideas on animal development and phylogeny teaching in this area. A prevent
Bdefy
Creplicate
Dinform
Euse
51.Mechanisms develop whereby every successful species can its innate capacity for population growth with the constraints that arise through its interactions with the natural environment.
Aenhance
Breplace
Cproduce
Dsurpass
Ereconcile
52.In the midst of so many evasive comments, this forthright statement, whatever its intrinsic merit, plainly stands out as .
Aa paradigm
Ba misnomer
Ca profundity
Dan inaccuracy
Ean anomaly
53.The activists’ energetic work in the service of both woman suffrage and the temperance movement in the late nineteenth century the assertion that the two movements were .
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Aundermines D diffuse
Bsupports E inimical
Cunderscores F predominant
54.There is nothing quite like this movie, and indeed I am not altogether sure there is much more to it than its lovely . At a moment when so many films strive to be as as possible, it is gratifying to find one that is so subtle and puzzling.
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Apeculiarity D indirect
Bpellucidity E assertive
Cconventionality F enigmatic
55.Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially because they have more recently entered humans than other species and therefore have had _________ time to evolve toward . Yet there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species.
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Apopulous D ample G virulence
Bmalignant E insufficient H benignity
Cthreatened F adequate I variability