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Section 32
1. The artists' career was remarkable partly because it was so ________: she died, with only a few paintings to her credit, while still in her twenties.
A. felicitous
B. prolific
C. enduring
D. conventional
E. abbreviated
2. Paintings created in India during the Mughid dynasty were ________ in ambition but ornamented in presentation: in one direction they have an affinity with newspaper photographs, while in the other they have the intricacy of jewels.
A. metaphorical
B. documentary
C. aesthetic
D. sectarian
E. baroque
3. 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.
Blank (i)
A. provincialism
B. diversity
C. materialism
Blank (ii)
D. more determined by
E. less contingent on
F. less insensitive to
4. The controversy about Alexander the Great’s personality derives from the fact that our sources are (i)________, all eyewitness accounts having perished. What remains is, at best, (ii)________ (one history, for instance, is based largely on the now-lost memoirs of Alexander’s alleged half-brother, Ptoleriy) and at worst, highly unreliable.
Blank (i)
A. outdated
B. inadequate
C. abstruse
Blank (ii)
D. secondhand
E. repetitious
F. deceptive
5. Gravitational waves ------ ripples in the geometry of space-time ------ are analogous to electromagnetic waves. The challenges 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 teh diameter of a proton.
Blank (i)
A. detectable
B. usable
C. explicable
Blank (ii)
D. obvious
E. subtle
F. violent
Blank (iii)
G. masked
H. disastrous
I. minuscule
6. Cultures can shape attitudes and beliefs in ways that (i)________ conscious awareness or control; in other word, cultural orientations may develop from processes that do not entail (ii)________ participation, and cultures may pervade subtle psychological dynamics in ways that individuals may not be able to (iii)________. Thus, theories and tools develop to study implicit cognition may increase out understanding of the complex interplay between culture and individuals.
Blank (i)
A. operate outside of
B. tend to facilitate
C. may not alter
Blank (ii)
D. active
E. random
F. rote
Blank (iii)
G. report
H. maintain
I. condone
7. Writing about advances in climate science is often problematic, it part because the material is so ________: climate science is the study of shifting, interrelated, and sometimes paradoxical patterns.
A. disheartening
B. pedestrian
C. complicated
D. depressing
E. knotty
F. mundane
8. Contrary to certain recent analyses that paint a dire portrait of soil loss from farmland, a new study of surveying data reaching back to the 1930s shows that erosion rates have been steadily ________.
A. intensifying
B. waning
C. accelerating
D. worsening
E. declining
F. deteriorating
9. The performer can be ________ in this comedy, but he is fundamentally a bighearted person who displays a core sweetness even at his most manic.
A. inflammatory
B. pedestrian
C. gloomy
D. uninspired
E. puerile
F. provocative
10. There are many insights in the essays collected in Observation On Modern, but they are decided in a dense English translation of a dense German original that make many of them _____ to most readers.
A. vapid
B. inaccessible
C. sagacious
D. banal
E. distressing
F. opaque