1. It is truly paradoxical that the Amazon, the lushest of all rainforests, is rooted in the most of all soils.
A. acidic
B. coarse
C. stark
D. impoverished√
E. infertile √
F. austere
2. Cynics believe that people who compliments do so in order to be praised twice.
A. conjure up
B. covet
C. deflect √
D. grasp
E. shrug off √
F. understand
3. A restaurant’s menu is generally reflected in its décor; however despite this restaurant’s appearance it is pedestrian in the menu it offers.
A. elegant √
B. tawdry
C. modern
D. traditional
E. conventional
F. chic √
4. International financial issues are typically by the United States media because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in economics.
A. neglected √
B. slighted √
C. overrated
D. hidden
E. criticized
F. repudiated
5. While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different—she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was —they were surprisingly well suited.
A. solicitous
B. munificent
C. irresolute
D. laconic √
E. fastidious
F. taciturn √
6. The nature of classical tragedy in Athens belies the modern image of tragedy: in the modern view tragedy is austere and stripped down, its representations of ideological and emotional conflicts so superbly compressed that there’s nothing ________ for time to erode. Blank (i) Blank (ii) unadorned inalienable harmonious exigent
multifaceted √ extraneous √
7. Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with _______, but the most of these paintings all doubts. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) partiality problematic exculpate credulity successful √ assuage √
ambivalence√ disparaged whet
8. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
A. an adventurous
B. a doctrinaire √
C. an eclectic
D. a judicious
E. a cynical
9. Dramatic literature often the history of a culture in that it takes as its subject matter the important events that have shaped and guided the culture.
A. confounds
B. repudiates
C. recapitulates√
D. anticipates
E. polarizes
10. Although the movement to preserve historic buildings is not usually thought of as _________ phenomenon, it deserves mention in the history of ideas because it launched the critique of the ideology of progress.
A. an economic
B. an intellectual √
C. an inconsequential
D. a comprehensible
E. a philanthropic
11. Personal sacrifice without the promise of immediate gain is an anomaly in this era when a sense of is the most powerful predisposition shaping individual actions.
A. fairness
B. humanitarianism
C. causality
D. ambiguity
E. entitlement √
12. New technologies often begin by what has gone before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam. Instead, power could be their processes. In that sense,
many of today’s computer networks are still in the steam age. Their full potential remains unrealized.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) uprooting transmitted to dismissing √ consolidated around
mimicking√ incorporated into
13. There has been much hand-wringing about how unprepared American students are for college. Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are unprepared for students. In his analysis, the university culture is largely entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp. Understandably, many students view academic life as ritual.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) primed for an arcane opaque√ to a laudable
essential for a painstaking √
14. Of course anyone who has ever perused an unmodernized text of Captain Clark’s journals knows that the Captain was one of the most spellers ever to write in English, but despite this orthographical rules, Clark is never unclear. Blank (i) Blank (ii) indefatigable disregard for fastidious√ partiality toward
defiant√ unpretentiousness about
