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Section 16

1. Blake’s reputation for weakness is _____: almost all who have

worked with him say he is a disciplined, intellectually formidable,

and very tough politician.


A. specious


B. pervasive

C. irreversible

D. trivial


E. ambivalent

5. Despite the scathing precision with which she satirizes the lives

of social aspirants and moneyed folk, the writer appears to

(i)__being part of the world she prents as so (ii)____

. abhor

B. relish

C. evoke

D.

unattainable

E.

insufferable

F. enchanting

9. Not only was this writer content to leave the reading public in the

dark, she ems to have _____ the role of trickster, eding her

works with apparent clues that led nowhere

.
A. rejected


B. disdained

C. relished
 D. participated in

E. delighted in


F. developed

10. The major _____ of much popular history is that it betrays no

interest in making intellectual contributions to our understanding of

an issue

.
A. characteristic


B. shortcoming

C. dilemma

D. quandary

E. ploy


F. fault

Section 21 5. The usual (i)_____ spending public monies on scientific projects

is that such projects have the potential to make our lives healthier,

safer, and more productive. However, the fact that science – even

“pure” science – can strengthen democracy and promote public

participation in the political process is hardly ever (ii)_____. It

should be Scientific literacy (iii)_____ democracy, and this is an

important ancillary benefit of the promotion of science

A. argument

against

B. rationale for

C. precedent for

D. denied

E. mentioned

F. gainsaid

G. stifles

H. energizes

I. disregards

6. Early practitioners of the natural sciences developed methods to

remove distortions caud by either the rearch environment or

the rearcher. Such methods, especially with respect to the

rearcher, were considered to (i)_____ tho (ii)_____ subjectivity

who unbridled expression was thought to (iii)_____ rearch.

A. restrain

B. reveal

C. disgui

D. incursions of

E. restrictions on

F. acknowledgements

of

G. corrupt

H. justify

I. expedite

9. Benjamin Franklin’s reputation is so much one of appearing

scientific investigation with commonn empiricism that it is

somewhat startling to realize how _____ the great experiment’s

mentoring truly was .
A. reasonable


B. speculative


C. pragmatic


D. conjectural


E. careless


F. judicious

Section17

1. While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be

quite _____, Lytton Strachey’s irreverent 1918 essay about her

ushered in a new era, making it acceptable, even fashionable, to

criticize her

2.

.
A. unsympathetic

B. sycophantic

C. unntimental

D. censorious


E. pedantic

3. The benefits offered by information technology do not (i)_____

the need for individual reasoning; for example, Internet ur should

not allow the reasoning process to be (ii)_____ the mere

accumulation raw data.

A. disgui

B. signal

D. preceded by

E. supplemented

with

C. diminish

F. supplanted by

4. Becau the book is largely concerned with an examination of

various (i)_____ often encountered in contemporary thinking, such

as an exaggerated appreciation for meaningless coincidence and a

credulous accept of pudoscience, much of the writing has a

(ii)_____ quality to it. Nevertheless, it avoids the overly earned

scolding tone common to many such endeavors.

A.

D. debunking

inadequacies

B. abstractions

E. speculative

C.

complexities

F. generalizing

6. Publisher, publicist, and broadcasters love anniversaries, tho

occasions when historical events become (i)_____ in (ii)_____

culture of celebration. On such occasions patriotic ntiment and

national pride are wrapped in the panoply of history to manufacture

a mythical past that is rviceable for public (iii)_____.

A. elusive moments

B. marketable

artifacts

C. raging

controversies

D. an authentic

E. a commercial

F. an elitist

G. consumption

H. scrutiny

I. censure

Section18

2Apparently, advanced tortois evolved multiple times: the

high-domed shells and columnar, elephantine feet of current forms are specializations for terrestrial life that evolved _____ on each

continent.

A. independently

B. interchangeably

C. paradoxically

D. simultaneously

E. symmetrically

3. Scholarly works on detective stories often begin with (i)_____,

suggesting that there is something vaguely wrong with adults who

spend their time reading such fiction and certainly something

(ii)_____ tho who devote energy to its analysis.

A. chronologies

B. apologies

C. synops

D. awry in

E. astute about

F. courageous

about

4. Due to the extraordinary circumstances, British business owners

found themlves in a (i)_____ position during the Second World

War, forced to accept regular interference from government and to

acquiesce to (ii)_____ role for labor unions in negotiating the terms

and conditions of employment.

A. defensive

B. dominant

D. a traditional

E. an

enhanced

C. customary

F. a

diminished

5. As Ellen Donkin explains, in eighteenth-century England, writing

plays (i)_____ women. Even when the (ii)_____ meant that

playwriting did not bring personal fame, the work nevertheless

enabled them to prent their own views to the public and offered

the possibility of acquiring capital.

A. empowered

B. overextended

C. impresd

D. u of a

pudonym

E. lack of a producer

F. poor remuneration

6. Laws protecting intellectual property are intended to stimulate

creativity, yet some forms of creative work have never enjoyed legal

protection—a situation that ought to be of great interest. If we e

certain forms of creative endeavor (i)_____ as a result of

uncontrolled copying, we might decide to (ii)_____ intellectual

property law. Converly, if unprotected creative work (iii)_____ in

the abnce of legal rules against copying, we would do well to

know how such flourishing is

A. languishing

B. proliferating

C. diversifying

D. jettison

E. extend

F. relax

G. declines in originality

H. manages to thrive

I. openly invites

imitation

7. Science is arguably a very high-minded pursuit, but that is not to

say that all of its practitioners are _____, as numerous articles alleging overly generous pharmaceutical industry payments to

medical rearchers have tried to show.


A. conventional

B. clever


C. unimpeachable

D. ingenious


E. blameless


F. predictable

Section19

3. Computers have become adept in rarefied domains once thought

to be uniquely human. However, they simultaneously have (i)_____

certain tasks basic to the human experience, including spatial

orientation and object recognition, and in so doing, have shown us

how (ii)_____ such fundamental skills truly are.

A. failed to master

B. helped to

improve

C. managed to

mimic

D. outmoded

E. common

F. impressive

4. Until the advent of film, commercial entertainment in England

occurred only where concentrated urban populations provided

audiences large enough to make it remunerative: theaters and

music halls were (i)_____ in rural villages. But village cinemas

quickly become (ii)_____, even though they were ramshackle

affairs in comparison to the urban picture palaces.

A. spartan

D. commonplace

B.

E. sophisticated

unconceivable

C. profitable

F.

unfashionable

5. Among wide-ranging animal species, populations at the edge of

the species’ range are frequently expod to less (i)_____ and

more variable conditions than tho in other parts on the range. As

a results, the animal’s abundance is often (ii)_____.

A. erratic

B. favorable

C. demanding

D. lower at the periphery

E. unaffected by habitat

F. underestimated by

rearchers

6. Common n tells me some people are more (i)_____ than

others. The claim that the differences are (ii)_____, or that deep

down, everybody acts only to further their own interests, (iii)_____

our everyday obrvations and deep-ated human practices of

moral evaluation

E. illusory

H. explains

A. altruistic

D. growing

G. mimics

B.

adaptable

C. I.

F. relevant

disciplined

contradicts

8. One of the peculiarities of humans is that we irrationally gravitate

to the predictable and avoid risk, whatever the reasons for this

_____, it is hardly a sound basis for dealing with complex, long-

term problems.
A. eccentricity

B. predilection C. vacillation D. proclivity E. wavering

F. cowardice

9. Williamson had a fierce commitment to achieving an accord,

spending enormous amount of time trying to forge a connsus out

of an often _____ asmbly.
A. apathetic
B. fractious

C. restive
D. cynical E. compliant F. tractable

Section20

5. The material covered in this article has been (i)_____ in previous

publications, and since currently neglected areas remained

unexplored, the article contains no (ii)_____.

A. skirted

B.

scrutinized

D.

revelations

E.

distortions

C. countered

sion

Section22

4. The author of this travel guide (i)_____ to show his readers Cairo

as it really is, but his information is not reliable: for example, his

geography is (ii)_____, with one walking tour covering areas of the

city that are twenty miles apart.

A. designs

D. erratic

B.

forbears

C.

purports

E. erudite

F.

extensive

6. Although political events in different countries were not (i)_____

in the nineteen century, their interrelationship was (ii)_____

compared with the prent, when interdependence has become far

greater: (iii)_____ has cead to be an option.

A.

D. conditional

G. isolationism

unconnected

B. trivial

E. superficial

H. resilience

C.

F. transparent

I. idealism

simultaneous

9. Culture, like speech, is primarily a human faculty, although both

functions may exist in a more _____ form in lesr primates.
A.

indispensable
B. crucial

C. primitive
D. intelligible E. recognizable F. rudimentary

10. Jackie Wullschlager's biography of Hans Christian Andern

_____ the insipid sweetness with which Andern coated his life

and reveals a vulnerable gingerbread man with a bitter almond

where his heart should be.
A. conjures up

B. imagines C. strips away D. overlooks E. removes
F. ignores

Section23

4. The author of this political history text shows considerable bias

against the political party when assigning credit or blame for its

actions: he deems (i)_____ what he favors and avoids what he

(ii)_____.

A. pertinent

B.

inevitable

D.

condemns

E.

condones

C. divided

F. ignores

6. To read Joanna Scott is to admire the work of a (i)_____. From

ntence to story, she narrates with great skill and (ii)_____, so that

the reader soon relaxes in the assurance that a hint or a

brushstroke delivered in chapter 1 will be (iii)_____ before the novel

comes to an end.

A. prolytizer

B. sage

C. master

D. deliberation

E. enthusiasm

F. flamboyance

G. given import

H. largely forgotten

I. overwhelmed with

details

7. While it is always clear that the author's message is heartfelt, it is

mostly buried by shortcomings of style, organization, and

production, although the book does become more _____ toward the

end.


A. sincere

B. intelligible C. orthodox D. readable E. frank

F. voluble

Section24

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 tho forms is virtually

nonexistent. Diaries and letters are rarely sites for (ii)_____.

A. motivation

B. penalty

C. tendency

D. premeditated

manipulation

E. childish theatrics

F. balanced reflection

6. Unlike most other rious journals, which drain money from their

owners, the Review has long been (i)_____. But the formula is not

without its imperfections, which have grown more pronounced in

recent years. The publication has always been erudite and (ii)_____

but not always lively and readable. (iii)_____, accompanied by a

certain aversion to risk taking, has pervaded its pages for a long

time.

A. lucrative

B. realistic

C. unesteemed

D. authoritative

E. animated

F. trendy

G. an originality

H. an

impulsiveness

I. a staleness

7. In the abnce of a surface gradient, the new laws of refraction

and reflection are _____ the conventional law, so they reprent

more of an extension than a complete revolution.


A. inferable from
B. entailed by

C. antithetical to D. coincident with E. antecedent to F. oppositional

to

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