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1. In contrast to the substantial muscular activity required for inhalation, exhalation is usually a ___ process.
(A) slow
(B) passive
(C) precise
(D) complex
(E) conscious
2. A computer program can provide information in ways that force students to participate in learning instead of being merely ___ of knowledge.
(A) creators
(B) consumers
(C) recipients
(D) custodians
(E) beneficiaries
3. While the delegate clearly sought to ___ the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
(A) substantiate
(B) dampen
(C) encourage
(D) elucidate
(E) rekindle
4. Foucault’s rejection of the concept of continuity in Western thought, though radical, was notunique; he had ___ in the United States who, without knowledge of his work, developed parallel ideas.
(A) critics
(B) counterparts
(C) publishers
(D) disciples
(E) readers
5. Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have ___ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the Winnebago people.
(A) described
(B) acknowledged
(C) neglected
(D) overlooked
(E) defended
(F) authenticated
6. Certain weeds that flourish among rice crops resist detection until maturity by ___ the seedling stage in the rice plant’s life cycle, thereby remaining indistinguishable from the rice crop until the flowering stage.
(A) deterring
(B) displacing
(C) augmenting
(D) imitating
(E) nurturing
(F) simulating
7. During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed ___ , without necessary relation to what had gone before.
(A) arbitrary
(B) capricious
(C) cautious
(D) compelling
(E) exacting
(F) meticulous
8. No longer ___ by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity , many people try to find intellectual ___ for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
9. That his intransigence in making decisions ___ no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of ___ their opinions in casual remarks.
10. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged that the ___ design is no longer ___ .