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101. Biographer Janet Malcolm maintains that biography is a spurious art, for the
orderly narrative it creates is ________ ; the “facts”aren’t facts at all, but literary ________ .
(A) illusory...inventions (B) genuine...commonplaces (C) informative...allusions (D) brilliant...triumphs (E) sincere...criticisms
102. Biography is a literary genre whose primary ________ is an ability to
________imaginatively the inner life of a subject on the basis of all the knowable external evidence.
(A) requisite...reconstruct (B) consequence...disregard (C) peculiarity...envision (D) weapon...undermine (E) claim...counteract
103. Biologists categorize many of the world’s environments as deserts: regions
where the ________ availability of some key factor, such as water, sunlight, or an essential nutrient, places sharp constraints on the existence of living things. (A) ready (B) gradual (C) limited (D) nearby
(E) unprecedented
104. Black religion was in part a protest movement—a protest against a system and a
society that was ________ designed to ________the dignity of a segment of God’s creation.
(A) unintentionally...reflect (B) explicitly...foster (C) inevitably...assess (D) deliberately...demean (E) provocatively...enhance
105. Boccherini was a good and interesting composer whose reputation has no
sufficiently ________ the decline into which it fell after his death. (A) contributed to (B) benefited from (C) recovered from (D) conflicted with (E) derived from
106. Breaking with established musical conventions, Stravinsky was ________
composer whose heterodox works infuriated the traditionalists of his day. (A) a derivative (B) an iconoclastic (C) an uncontroversial (D) a venerated (E) a trite
107. British ________ contemporary art has been an obstacle even for modem artists
now revered as great, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, who were ________ for years before winning acceptance. (A) veneration of...eulogized (B) indifference to...dismissed (C) disdain for...lauded (D) ignorance of...studied (E) intolerance of...vindicated
108. British collectors are notorious for their ________ of interest in ________ art,
much preferring to collect antiques and “important”pictures by long-dead artists. (A) wealth...modem (B) growth...abstract (C) lack...posthumous
(D) resurgence...innovative (E) dearth...contemporary
109. Burdened by debt, Lydgate abandons his dreams of reforming medicine to take a
conventional but ________ practice in London. (A) lucrative (B) ordinary (C) innovative (D) intangible (E) exotic
110. By communicating through pointing and making gestures, Charles was able to
overcome any ________ difficulties that arose during his recent trip to Japan. (A) peripatetic (B) linguistic (C) plausible (D) monetary (E) territorial
111. By dint of much practice in the laboratory, the anatomy student became
________ and was able to manipulate her dissecting tools with either hand. (A) practical (B) tricky
(C) ambiguous (D) ambidextrous (E) ambivalent
112. By nature Toshiro was ________ , given to striking up casual conversations with
strangers he encountered at bus stops or check-out stands. (A) diffident (B) observant (C) reticent (D) gregarious (E) laconic
113. By putting the entire Woolf archive on microfilm, the project directors hope to
make the contents of the manuscripts more ________ to scholars. (A) accessible (B) objective (C) appealing (D) implicit (E) relevant
114. Cancer cells are normal cells run riot, growing and multiplying out of ________ .
(A) spite (B) danger (C) control (D) apathy (E) range
115. China’s economic growth curve after reform resembles an airplane taking off,
whereas the former Soviet Union??s resembles a submarine ________ . (A) floating (B) soaring
(C) maneuvering (D) descending (E) veering
116. Compared with the ostentatious glamour of opera, classical song (increasingly
called lieder everywhere) is a more ________ tradition. (A) articulate
(B) unrepresentative (C) subdued
(D) broad-minded (E) worldly
117. Complaints about the inanity of popular leisure activities, long a staple of
American intellectual life, are routinely ________ these days as nostalgic elitism. (A) lauded (B) reinforced (C) celebrated (D) offered (E) dismissed
118. Contemporary critics often ________ the poet Longfellow as a simple
sentimentalist who relied too much on poetic meters only suitable for light verse. (A) heed (B) endorse (C) dismiss (D) embellish (E) acclaim
119. Contrary to her customary ________ behavior, Susan began leaving parties early
to seek the solitude of her room. (A) reclusive (B) circumspect (C) decorous (D) gregarious (E) altruistic
120. Courteously and ________ , but persistently, the members of the special
investigatory commission asked question after question of all the President’s aides.
(A) intrusively (B) belligerently (C) urbanely
(D) remorselessly (E) intermittently
121. Critics ________ the ________ in developing the new weather satellite to
unexpected problems in manufacturing and testing its components. (A) credit...timeliness (B) impute...success (C) attribute...delay (D) assign...importance (E) deny...threat
122. Critics of the welfare system argue that, rather than aiding people’s efforts to
govern their own lives, it ________ their independence. (A) supports
(B) saps (C) hastens (D) renews (E) abets
123. Crowther maintained that the current revival was the most fatuous and ________
production of the entire theatrical season. (A) gripping (B) inane (C) prophetic (D) memorable (E) salubrious
124. Curious____ of Florence’s history is that this great center of Italian ________
should time and again have been home to acts of appalling savagery and inhumanity.
(A) example...conflict (B) paradox...civilization (C) result...brutality
(D) convention...cultures (E) distinction...quality
125. Deeply ________ by the insult to his dignity, he maintained that no true
gentleman would accept such an calmly. (A) mortified...opportunity (B) incensed...affront (C) puzzled...honor
(D) shamed...iconoclasm (E) gratified...admonition
126. Deloria has his detractors, but his critics have had amazingly ________ success
at shaking his self-confidence or ________ his reputation. (A) great...repairing
(B) widespread...bolstering (C) little...denting (D) small...enhancing (E) poor...restoring
127. Despite all its ________ , a term of enlistment in the Peace Corps can be both
stirring and satisfying to a college graduate still undecided on a career. (A) rewards (B) renown (C) adventures (D) romance
(E) frustrations
128. Despite an affected ________ which convinced casual observers that he was
indifferent about his painting and enjoyed only frivolity, Warhol cared deeply about his art and labored at it ________ . (A) nonchalance...diligently (B) empathy...methodically (C) fervor...secretly
(D) gloom...intermittently (E) hysteria...sporadically
129. Despite careful restoration and cleaning of the murals in the 1960s, the colors
slowly but steadily ________ . (A) persisted (B) embellished (C) saturated (D) deteriorated (E) stabilized
130. Despite her compassionate nature, the new nominee to the Supreme Court was
singleminded and ________ in her strict ________ the letter of the law. (A) merciful...interpretation of (B) uncompromising...adherence to (C) dilatory...affirmation of (D) vindictive...deviation from (E) lenient...dismissal of
131. Despite her father’s ________ that “a woman??s place is in the home” and a
________ reception from her professors and fellow graduate students, Marian Cleeves went on to become the first woman to receive a doctorate in anatomy from the University of California at Berkeley. (A) warning...gratifying (B) reprimand...lavish
(C) encouragement...respectful (D) admonition...cool (E) maxim...hospitable
132. Despite some personal habits that most people would find repulsive, naked mole
rats are ________ housekeepers. (A) slovenly (B) indifferent (C) meticulous (D) perfunctory (E) repugnant
133. Despite the ________ discussions of recent months, observers say that the
administration and the developer have made progress in their negotiations and are close to ________ on a purchase price. (A) amicable...haggling (B) acrimonious...defaulting (C) heated...agreeing (D) fruitful...settling
(E) constructive...compromising
134. Despite the ________ of the materials with which he worked, many of Tiffany’s
glass masterpieces have survived for more than seventy years. (A) beauty
(B) translucence (C) abundance (D) majesty (E) fragility
135. Despite the___ size of her undergraduate class, the professor made a point of
gettingto know as many as possible of the more than 700 students personally. (A) negligible (B) modest
(C) infinitesimal (D) daunting (E) moderate
136. Despite the current expansion of membership in America, the governing body of
world fencing fears that fencing could be in danger of if it does not become more ________ to spectators. (A) monotony...intelligible (B) overcrowding...resistant (C) extinction...accessible (D) corruption...cordial (E) remoteness...handy
137. Despite the growing ________ of Hispanic actors in the American theater, many
Hispanic experts feel that the Spanishspeaking population is ________ on the stage.
(A) decrease...inappropriate (B) emergence...visible
(C) prominence...underrepresented (D) skill...alienated
(E) number...misdirected
138. Despite the mixture’s ________ nature, we found that by lowering its
temperature in the laboratory we could dramatically reduce its tendency to vaporize. (A) resilient (B) volatile
(C) homogeneous (D) insipid (E) acerbic
139. Despite the team members’ resentment of the new coach’s training rules, they
________ them as long as he did not ________ them too strictly. (A) embraced...follow (B) condemned...formulate (C) questioned...interpret (D) challenged...implement (E) tolerated...apply
140. Despite their reputations as soothing love songs sung by mothers to lull fretful
infants to sleep, many lullabies are of a dark, even ________ nature. (A) soporific (B) manipulative (C) threatening (D) auspicious (E) innocuous
141. Determined to hire employees on the basis of their merits rather than on the basis
of their family connections, Johnson refused to ________ nepotism and other forms of favoritism in the engagement of new workers. (A) obscure (B) proscribe (C) countenance (D) misrepresent (E) discern
142. Donald Trump’s latest casino in Atlantic City is the most ________ gambling
palace in the East, easily outglittering its competitors. (A) professional (B) speculative (C) ostentatious (D) lucrative (E) restrained
143. Dr. Charles Drew’s technique for preserving and storing blood plasma for
emergency use proved so ________ that it became the ________ for the present
blood bank system used by the American Red Cross. (A) irrelevant...inspiration (B) urgent...pattern (C) effective...model (D) innocuous...excuse (E) complex...blueprint
144. Dr. Smith cautioned that the data so far are not sufficiently ________ to warrant
dogmatic assertions by either side in the debate. (A) hypothetical (B) tentative (C) controversial (D) unequivocal (E) imponderable
145. Duke Ellington’s jazz symphonies were attacked by classical critics who felt that
the entire attempt to fuse jazz as a form with classical music should be ________ . (A) promoted (B) documented (C) discouraged (D) acclaimed (E) repeated
146. During the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson remained ________ and in full
command of the situation in spite of the hysteria and panic all around him. (A) impassable (B) imperturbable (C) overbearing (D) frenetic (E) lackadaisical
147. During the Dark Ages, hermits and other religious ________ fled the world to
devote themselves to silent contemplation. (A) renegades (B) skeptics (C) altruists (D) recluses (E) convictions
148. During the Ice Ages, muskoxen ranged as far south as Iowa, in North America,
and Spain, in Europe, but in recent centuries the species has been ________ arctic tundra habitats, such as Greenland and the arctic islands of Canada. (A) barred from (B) confined to
(C) dissatisfied with (D) enervated by (E) unknown in
149. During the last four decades of Tennyson’s long life, his creative powers never
________ , some of his most remarkable work coming after the age of 70. (A) recovered (B) manifested (C) flagged (D) blossomed (E) broadened
150. During the troubles of 1750, the ________ of Scotland was terrible; many Scots
could afford nothing to eat but oatmeal porridge. (A) anarchy (B) reputation (C) punishment (D) apathy (E) poverty
151. Egocentric, at times vindictive when he believed his authority was being
questioned, White could also be kind, gracious, and even ________ when the circumstances seemed to require it. (A) self-deprecating (B) authoritarian (C) provocative (D) taciturn (E) disdainful
152. Einstein’s humility was so___ that it might have seemed a pose affected by a
great man had it not been so obviously ________ . (A) spurious...genuine (B) convincing...assumed (C) profound...sincere (D) heartfelt...hypocritical (E) modest...contrived
153. Either the Polynesian banquets at Waikiki are____ , or the one I visited was a
poor example. (A) delicious (B) impeccable (C) overrated (D) untasted (E) unpopular
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