1. Since one of Professor Roche's oft-repeated adages was that familiarity leads to ________, his students were quite surprised to find him so _______ Return of the Native, a novel he had taught for over 30 years.
A. love...enthusiastic over
B. contempt...disdainful of
C. knowledge...conversant with
D. boredom...excited by
E. admiration...confused by
2. Reason was once believed to be human, but lately this assumption of intellectual superiority has come under increasingly skeptical scrutiny: most researchers now at least the notion that some animals can think.
A. logically…ridicule
B. unique…entertain
C. scarcely…embrace
D. quintessentially…balk at
E. peculiarly…scoff at
3. Powerful as they are, the songs the artist is best known for might sting more and have even greater emotional complexity if one felt that his criticisms were aimed at himself as well as at his unnamed foes.
A. accusatory
B. altruistic
C. mournful
D. simplistic
E. humble
4. In her love the sea is symbol: to the narrator it clearly represents everything that is destructive in nature, but at other times it seems to stand for everything in nature that is serenely beautiful.
A. an enduring
B. an ambiguous
C. a coherent
D. an obtrusive
E. a discrete
5. Despite their extensive efforts to determine the mode of oil , scientists still have not the process by which oil is produced.
A. dispersion…excluded
B. synthesis…rejected
C. creation…investigated
D. recovery…condoned
E. genesis…established
6. Compared with their parties, politicians are : they are considerably less enduring than the organizations in which they function.
A. ubiquitous
B. autonomous
C. fickle
D. immutable
E. transitory
7. Chavez’ account of her supervisors’ decision making belies the agency’s image as little more than bureaucracy.
A. cautious…a staid
B. ill-informed…a disorganized
C. reckless…an incompetent
D. systematic…a methodical
E. headlong…a timorous
8. The cause of the disease is fairly simple and has been understood for over a century; by contrast, its symptoms and effects are .
A. straightforward
B. illuminating
C. severe
D. well researched
E. perplexing
9. Throughout the artist’s work there runs a thread of psychic darkness strong enough to unnerve the most added sensibility: even her drawings from the comparatively _______ months of her visit to Rome violence secrecy, and despair.
A. tranquil…emanate
B. morbid…convey
C. languid…eschew
D. disturbed…express
E. felicitous…shun
10. Even among the staid, unemotional denominations of the 1830s and 1840s, the renewal of religious fervor and the necessity of competing with more clerics inevitably led to a greater ministerial showmanship.
A. charismatic…cultivation of
B. reserved…attraction to
C. well-known…disdain for
D. conservative…appeal for
E. empathetic…distrust of
11. Tuberculosis has long been and disease: for thousands of years, it has continued to afflict humankind without regard for sex, class, occupation, or race.
A. an unremitting…selective
B. an unpredictable…limitable
C. a sporadic…capricious
D. a relentless…egalitarian
E. a virulent…preventable
12. He found his new acquaintance to be : trying to understand her personality was like peering into an unknown dimension.
A. puerile
B. imperturbable
C. cosmopolitan
D. inscrutable
E. obdurate
13. The writer has gained such popularity with his readers that even his inanities are now considered .
A. vacuous
B. tedious
C. speculative
D. allusive
E. trenchant
14. The biographer’s intense emotional involvement with his subject did not _______ objectivity, since the passionate engagement fostered deep knowledge that was ultimately necessary for truly judgment.
A. preclude…disinterested
B. encourage…fair
C. impede…partisan
D. advance…pragmatic
admit…reasonable