1.Although the architect’s concept at first sounded too ____ to be ____ , his
careful analysis of every aspect of the project convinced the panel that the
proposed building was indeed, structurally feasible.
(A) mundane.. attractive
(B) eclectic.. appealing
(C) grandiose.. affordable
(D) innovative.. ignored
(E) visionary.. practicable
2.If efficacious new medicines have side effects that are commonly observed
and ____, such medicines are too often considered ____, even when
laboratory tests suggest caution.
(A) unremarkable.. safe
(B) unpredictable.. reliable
(C) frequent.. outdated
(D) salutary.. experimental
(E) complicated.. useful
3. The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are
evidence that the medieval ____ natural settings had been ____ and that
the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.
(A) fear of.. exorcised
(B) concerns about.. regained
(C) affection for.. surmounted
(D) disinterest in.. alleviated
(E) enthusiasm for.. confronted
4. Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ____
since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record
only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been
either ____ or decreased diversity.
(A) changed.. escalation
(B) increased.. stasis
(C) expanded.. discontinuity
(D) declined.. reduction
(E) improved.. deviation
5. Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using
hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether
hormones that ____ in the laboratory can affect ____ organisms, and in
predictable ways.
(A) develop.. similar
(B) succeed.. simple
(C) fail.. cellular
(D) work.. whole
(E) reproduce.. unknown
6. The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious activity and
the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the
1870’s ____ any assertion that feminism was ____ in that period.
(A) exclude.. thriving
(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