The word "comparably" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) interestingly

　　(B) similarly

　　(C) otherwise

　　(D) sometimes

　　090. Being so educable, individual birds have markedly different interests and inclinations, strategies and scams.

　　The word "inclination" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) tricks

　　(B) opportunities

　　(C) preferences

　　(D) experiences

　091. The confusion and congestion of individual citizens looking for their letters was itself enough to discourage use of the mail. It is no wonder that, during the years of these cumbersome arrangements, private letter- carrying and express businesses developed.

　　The word "cumbersome" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) burdensome

　　(B) handsome

　　(C) loathsome

　　(D) quarrelsome

　　092. But this delivery service was at first confined to cities, and free home delivery became a mark of urbanism. As late as 1887, a town had to have 10,000 people to be eligible for free home delivery.

　　The word "Confined" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) granted

　　(B) scheduled

　　(C) limited

　　(D) recommended

　　093. They were, by training, social scientists, not historians, and their work tended to reflect this bias. The questions they framed and the techniques they used were designed to help them understand, as scientists, how people behaved.

　　The word "framed" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(B) read

　　(C) avoided

　　(D) posed

　　094. In Kingston, New York, for example, evidence has been uncovered that indicates that English goods were being smuggled into that city at a time when the Dutch supposedly controlled trading in the area.

　　The word "supposedly" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) ruthlessly

　　(B) tightly

　　(C) barely

　　(D) seemingly

　　095. And in Sacramento an excavation at the site of a fashionable nineteenth-century hotel revealed that garbage had been stashed in the building's basement despite sanitation laws to the contrary.

　　The word "sanitation" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) city

　　(B) housing

　　(C) health

　　(D) trade

　　096. When Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864, there were many conflicting theories about the nature of the Earth's interior. Some geologists thought that it contained a highly compressed ball of incandescent gas, while others suspected that it consisted of separate shells, each made of a different material.

　　The word "conflicting" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) controlling

　　(B) outdated

　　(C) opposing

　　(D) important

　　097. Beyond a depth of around 2,900 kilometers, a great change takes place and the mantle gives way to the core.< Some seismic waves cannot pass through the core and others are bent by it. From this and other evidence, geologists conclude that the outer core is probably liquid, with a solid center. It is almost certainly made of iron, mixed with smaller amount of other elements such as nickel.