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

　　(A) deficient

　　(B) expanded

　　(C) innovative

　　(D) specialized

　　078. With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline.

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

　　(A) unwillingly

　　(B) impartially

　　(C) irrationally

　　(D) unavoidably

　　079. Deeply philosophical historians such as Henry Adams lamented the role that the new frenzy for business was playing in eroding traditional values. A distrust of industry and business continued among writers throughout the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth.

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

　　(A) complained about

　　(B) analyzed

　　(C) explained

　　(D) reflected on

　　080. One thinks of melodramas, boys' books, thrillers, romances, and the like rather than novels of the first rank.

　　The phrase "first rank" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) largest category

　　(B) highest quality

　　(C) earliest writers

　　(D) most difficult language