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Section 42
1. The theory that the 1908 Tunguska event was the explosion of a cosmic body in the sky over Siberia is ________: no one has yet found fragments of the object or any impact craters in the affected region.
A. long-standing
B. indisputable
C. plausible
D. uncontested
E. unproven
2. The irony of digital networking is that it can produce more (i)________ than did the geographical confinement it supposedly transcended. As human interactions become (ii)________ physical location, people are less likely to have regular dealings with others who do not share the same values and outlooks.
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A. provincialism D. more determined by
B. diversity E. less contingent on
C. materialism F. less insensitive to
3. It would be naïve to treat remarks made in diaries or personal letters as giving especially candid access to historical truth or even as being expressions of the writer’s true state of mind, since the (i)________ for exaggeration and deception in those forms is virtually nonexistent. Diaries and letters are rarely sites for (ii)________.
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A. motivation D. premeditated manipulation
B. penalty E. childish theatrics
C. tendency F. balanced reflection
4. Gravitational waves---ripples in the geometry of space-time---are analogous to electromagnetic waves. The challenge in trying to observe these waves directly is that they are extremely weak.
To make waves large enough to be (i)________, the most (ii)________ events in the universe are required: supernova explosions, the formation of black holes, or the collision of stars. Even so, the effects are (iii)________. The geometry changes so little that a distance of several kilometers changes by less than the diameter of proton.
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A. detectable D. obvious G. masked
B. usable E. subtle H. disastrous
C. explicable F. violent I. minuscule
5. When the Agriculture Department (i)________ its new dietary guidelines, it laid down a challenge: Eat better, smarter, and healthier or else. The “or else” included a long list of (ii)________ that (iii)________ the developed world, from heart disease and osteoporosis to diabetes.
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A. make public D. intangibles G. assuage
B. debunked E. misconceptions H. plague
C. refused to consider F. maladies I. ignore
6. Schechter is atypically (i)________ the film version of Stephen King’s horror novel The Shining because the qualities for which the majority of other critics have approved it (its artful camera work and so on) get in the way of narrative and render the story less, rather than more, (ii)________ than other films of the same genre. This is not (iii)________ view, and we must be grateful to Schechter for putting it forward.
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A. unimpressed with D. heartbreaking G. a commonplace
B. confused by E. comical H. superior
C. enamored of F. terrifying I. an unfamiliar
7. The controversial social analysis that Moynihan offered in the 1960s is now generally recognized as having been prescient; in fact, it has been the________ upon which much of our discussion of social pathology must base.
A. concession
B. bedrock
C. imperative
D. compromise
E. foundation
F. vision
8. All Shaker furniture implies________ humanism in design: the Shakers made objects that look like objects, following a nonhuman law of design and rejecting the unconscious self-flattery inherent in making anthropomorphic objects.
A. a rejection of
B. a liberation from
C. a belief in
D. an affinity for
E. an attraction to
F. a misunderstanding of
9. The difficulty of reforming electoral politics is not lack of the right tools but the need to put them into the hands of impartial agents: the goal should be to build capacity while ______.
A. expediting
B. constraining
C. facilitating
D. deterring
E. exacerbating
F. lamenting
10. That guild of experts has always appraised the economic stimulation plan as bootless, while the advocates of the policy do not take their ______ evaluation for granted.
A. tendentious
B. meticulous
C. detracting
C. indifferent
D. ubiquitous
E. deprecatory