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Section 16
1. Politician who invoke the founders of the United States in support of their views seem to imply that the founders consistently concurred in their own views when in reality they were a highly ________ group of thinkers.
A. erudite
B. innovative
C. predictable
D. contentious
E. methodical
2. Of all her works, this play is the most dependent on the dramatic conventions of the author’s day; it was both the least ________ of her plays and the most commercially successful.
A. experimental
B. popular
C. formulaic
D. lucrative
E. contemporary
3. One way to predict the effect of global climate change on an ecosystem is to extrapolate current trend in global change factors into the future. A (i)________ of this method is that its predictions (ii)________ actual observations but the method also makes the questionable assumption that the future will resemble the present.
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A. virtue
B. drawback
C. peculiarity
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D. dispense with
E. derive from
F. improve upon
4. Just because as a photographer, Friendlander (i)________ places that most people consider ugly not mean that he is our to prove they are beautiful. Instead, his work suggests that the photographer simply cannot ignore so much of the built American landscape but is obligated to (ii)________ what we pass
through day in and day out regardless of (iii)________.
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A. tends to avoid
B. is harshly critical of
C. is interested in
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D. document
E. emulate
F. discredit
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G. authenticity
H. truthfulness
I. aesthetics
5. China’s rapidly growing population is the main threat facing large carnivores in the People’s Republic.
Increasingly policies aimed at limiting population growth have been (i)________, nevertheless, the country’s vast size and the isolation of many of its regions mean that human populations in areas where large carnivores still occur (ii)________. This human pressure has (iii)________ the south China tiger.
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A. modified
B. deemphasized
C. implemented
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D. could start to decline
E. can grow unchecked
F. have stabilized
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G. celebrated
H. doomed
I. bypassed
6. Behavioral economist have come to believe that a (i)________ of choices can be paralyzing as Schwartz pointed out in the recent book The Paradox of choice studies of retirement plans show that the more investment choices a plan offers. The less likely people are to participate in it. It may follow, then that a lack of flexibility in certain plans may actually be a (ii)________. People reasonably (iii)________ some advantages in exchange for peace of mind.
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A. surfeit
B. reduction
C. stabilization
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D. virtue
E. conundrum
F. revelation
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G. foresee
H. forestall
I. forgo
7. It is hardly ________ the committee calls for: rudimentary competence would be an improvement on the current chaos.
A. accountability
B. disarray
C. unruliness
D. faultlessness
E. loyalty
F. perfection
8. Explorers could not build each other's knowledge if they could not trust the records of previous explorers, thus exploration depended on the ________ of those who had gone before.
A. collegiality
B. endurance
C. exactitude
D. meticulousness
E. eminence
F. tenacity
9. Although its director ________ that the movie uses a documentary approach in portraying the famous sit-down strike, in practice its characters are heavily fictionalized and fall into familiar Hollywood types.
A. asserts
B. concedes
C. guarantees
D. disputes
E. grants
F. maintains
10. Joshua Gisemba Bagaka found that the pedagogical results of group projects and other engaged learning activities in Kenyan mathematics classroom were ________; such activities, then, may not be the best way of improving mathematics education.
A. overstated
B. counterintuitive
C. mixed
D. discouraging
E. inconsistent
F. inexplicable