(B) contradict.. prospering
(C) pervade.. remote
(D) buttress.. dormant
(E) belie.. quiescent
7. Jones was unable to recognize, the contradictions in his attitudes that were
obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was ____ to him, but
he ____ serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.
(A) acceptable.. risked
(B) exciting.. averted
(C) repugnant.. courted
(D) anathema.. evaded
(E) tempting.. hazarded
8. Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 film ____ the
filmmaker’s active involvement in feminist politics.
(A) preserved
(B) portrayed
(C) encouraged
(D) renewed
(E) antedated
9. The chances that a species will ____ are reduced if any vital function is
restricted to a single kind of organ;____ by itself possesses an enormous
survival advantage.
(A) degenerate.. complexity
(B) expire.. size
(C) disappear.. variety
(D) flourish.. symmetry
(E) persist.. redundancy
10. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data
accumulated are not directly ____ to environmental questions; thus a new
program of research specifically addressing such questions is ____.
(A) analogous.. promising
(B) transferable.. contradictory
(C) antithetical.. unremarkable
(D) applicable.. warranted
(E) pertinent.. unnecessary |
