• Becau the pandas had already been weakened by dia and drought, a harsh winter would have had --- conquences for them.
• (A) preventive
• (B) regressive
• (C) catastrophic
• (D) unforeen
• (E) moderate
• Johnson’s writing is considered ------- and ------- becau it is filled with obscure references and baffling digressions.
• (A) deceiving ….ingenuous
• (B) arcane ….abstru
• (C) spare ….didactic
• (D) lucid ….definitive
• (E) conci ….esoteric
• 3.A painter’s ability to render a likeness is both ___ and acquired; the artist blends natural abilities with worldly experience in the creation of his or her art.
• A anticipated
• B overt
• C aesthetic
• D ubiquitous
• E innate
• 4. A judicious biography must be ----- reprentation that depicts both the strengths and
the weakness of the subject, avoiding the two extremes of ---- and indictment.
• A a polarized … vindication
• B an imaginative … discernment
• C a holistic … censure
• D a complimentary … animosity
• E an equitable … eulogy
• Becau the congresswoman has been so openhanded with many of her constituents, it is difficult to reconcile this ------- with her private -------.
• (A) lfishness ….inattention
• (B) insolence ….virtue
• (C) magnanimity ….pettiness
• (D) opportunism ….ambition
• (E) solicitousness ….generosity
• His peers respected him becau he was both ------- and -------：steadfast in his beliefs and tactful in his negotiations.
• (A) resourceful ….courteous
• (B) tenacious ….manipulative
• (C) determined ….demonstrative
• (D) resolute ….diplomatic
• (E) outspoken ….indiscriminate
• Cathedrals usually take decades , even centuries, to complete; thus no one expected the National Cathedral to be built with -------.
• (A) dispatch
• (B) presumption
• (C) durability
• (D) deliberation
• (E) reverence
• Although Eduora Welty and William Faulkner wrote in distinctively different styles, ------- between the two is ------- becau they both lived in and wrote about Mississippi.
• (A) comparison ….inevitable
• (B) cooperation …..destructive
• (C) discord ….legendary
• (D) similarity ….unlikely
• (E) rivalry ….redundantly
• Rodolfo Gonzales was once describes as ------- in body and mind becau of the flexibility and grace apparent in both his boxing and his writing of poetry and plays.
• (A) unyielding
• (B) tremulous
• (C) emphatic
• (D) lithe
• (E) fickle
• To reflect the ------- of that nation’s spoken languages, its writers often make us of a mixture of dialects.
• (A) articulation
• (B) intonation
• (C) spontaneity
• (D) profundity
• (E) heterogeneity
• heterogeneity
• The quality or state of being heterogeneous.
• heterogeneous:
• consisting of dissimilar or diver ingredients or constituents : MIXED
• Merriam - Webster
• To avoid being -----, compor Stephen Sondheim strives for an element of surpri in his songs.
• A erratic B informal
• C elaborate D predictable
• E idiosyncratic
• By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one-man show, John Leguizamo provides a ------- to the theater’s tendency to offer a limited range of roles to Latino actors.
• (A) corrective
• (B) tribute
• (C) corollary
• (D) stimulus
• (E) precursor
• In order to ------- the loss of natural wetlands ud by migrating snow gee, conrvationists in the 1960’s and 1970’s ------- wetland refuges in the northern prairies.
• (A) standardize ….ignored
• (B) offt ….surrendered
• (C) explain ….dismantled
• (D) compensate for ….established
• (E) account for ….administered
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• Castillo’s poetry has generated only enthusiastic respon: prai from the general public and ------- from the major critics.
• (A) condemnation
• (B) sarcasm
• (C) plaudits
• (D) irony
• (E) pathos
• The residents of the town lived ------- lives; no one indulged in wild or ------- behavior.
• (A) rambunctious ….indecent
• (B) extravagant ….excessive
• (C) cluded ….scrupulous
• (D) circumscribed ….impulsive
• (E) irreverent ….animated
• The editorial claimed that the gubernatorial candidate lacked worldly wisdom and that this ------- would likely be his undoing.
• (A) naivete
• (B) furtiveness
• (C) venality
• (D) indecisiveness
• (E) sarcasm
• A scientist should not automatically reject folkways that might at first em silly or superstitious; scientific qualifications are not a licen for -------, nor do they ------- prejudice or bias.
