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121.The tone of Jane Carlyle’s letter is guarded, and her feelings are always by the wit and pride that made _ plea for sympathy impossible for her.

(A) masked … a direct
(B) bolstered … a needless
(C) controlled … a circumspect
(D) enhanced … an intentional
(E) colored … an untimely

122. French folktales almost always take place within the basic that correspond to the setting of peasant life: on the one hand, the household and village and on the other, the open road.

(A) contexts … hierarchical
(B) structures … personal
(C) frameworks … dual
(D) chronologies … generic
(E) narratives … ambivalent

123. Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than it.

(A) ensure … promoting
(B) inhibit … perpetuating
(C) undermine … resurrecting
(D) modify … appreciating
(E) supplement … confining

124. Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, New Deal economic strategems became  as a result of bureaucratization, their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.

(A) politicized
(B) consolidated
(C) ossified
(D) ungovernable
(E) streamlined

125. Biologists isolated oceanic islands like the Galapagos, because, in such small, laboratory- like settings, the rich hurly-burly of continental plant and animal communities is reduced to a scientifically complexity.

(A) explore … diverse
(B) desert … manageable
(C) exploit … intimidating
(D) reject … intricate
(E) prize … tractable

126. The startling finding that variations in the rate of the Earth’s rotation depend to an degree on the weather has necessitated a complete of the world’s time-keeping methods.

(A) unexpected … overhaul
(B) anticipated … recalibration
(C) indeterminate … rejection
(D) unobservable … review
(E) estimated … acceptance

127.It was a war the queen and her more prudent counselors wished to _ if they could and were determined in any event to as long as possible.

(A) provoke … delay
(B) denounce … deny
(C) instigate … conceal
(D) curtail … promote
(E) avoid … postpone

128. 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

129.Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being by massive infusions of new information from everywhere.

(A) harsh … unconfirmed
(B) surrounding … upheld
(C) immediate … transformed
(D) natural… mechanized
(E) limited. superseded

130.Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having the conflicting elements of her life.

(A) affirmed
(B) highlighted
(C) reconciled
(D) confined
(E) identified

131. In their preface, the collection’s editors plead that certain of the important articles they were published too recently for inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this is not valid.

(A) discussed … replacement
(B) omitted … excuse
(C) revised … clarification
(D) disparaged … justification
(E) ignored … endorsement

132.The labor union and the company’s management, despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearly every issue, have nevertheless reached an unexpectedly , albeit still tentative, agreement on next year’s contract.

(A) swift
(B) onerous
(C) hesitant
(D) reluctant
(E) conclusive

133.In response to the follies of today’s commercial and political worlds, the author does not inflamed indignation, but rather the detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.

(A) display … rails at
(B) rely on … avoids
(C) suppress … clings to
(D) express … affects
(E) resort to … spurns

134. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people attain mental health, seems to be looking for answers: a way to close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.

(A) definitive
(B) confused
(C) temporary
(D) personal
(E) derivative

135.The well-trained engineer must understand fields as diverse as physics, economics, geology, and sociology; thus, an overly engineering curriculum should be avoided.

(A) narrow
(B) innovative
(C) competitive
(D) rigorous
(E) academic

136. Although supernovas are among the most of cosmic events, these stellar explosions are often hard to , either because they are enormously far away or because they are dimmed by intervening dust and gas clouds.

(A) remote … observe
(B) luminous … detect
(C) predictable … foresee
(D) ancient … determine
(E) violent … disregard

137.During the widespread fuel shortage, the price of gasoline was so that suppliers were generally thought to be the consumer.

(A) reactive … shielding
(B) stable … blackmailing
(C) depressed … cheating
(D) prohibitive … placating
(E) excessive … gouging

138.Art science, but that does not mean that the artist must also be a scientist; an artist uses the fruits of science but need not the theories from which they derive.

(A) precedes … anticipate
(B) incorporates … understand
(C) transcends … abandon
(D) imitates … repudiate
(E) resembles … contest

139.Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could be an effective to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of employers with poor safety records.

(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive

140. Literature is inevitably a rather than medium for the simple reason that writers interpose their own vision between the reader and reality.

(A) distorting … a neutral
(B) transparent … an opaque
(C) colorful … a drab
(D) flawless … an inexact
(E) flexible … a rigid

141. With its maverick approach to the subject, Shere Hite’s book has been more widely debated than most; the media throughout the country have brought the author’s opinions to the public’s attention.

(A) controversial
(B) authoritative
(C) popular
(D) conclusive
(E) articulate

142. Though many medieval women possessed devotional books that had belonged to their mothers, formal written evidence of women bequeathing books to their daughters is scarce, which suggests that such bequests were _ and required no .

(A) unselfish … rationalization
(B) tangential … approval
(C) customary … documentation
(D) covert … discretion
(E) spurious … record

143. Although their initial anger had somewhat, they continued to the careless worker who had broken the machine.

(A) blazed … assail
(B) diminished …appease
(C) abated … berate
(D) subsided … condone
(E) intensified … torment

144.Borrowing a copyrighted book from a library amounts to a form of theft by entrenched custom: the copyright owner’s property, the book, is used repeatedly without for such use.

(A) engendered … application
(B) anticipated … acknowledgement
(C) sanctioned … compensation
(D) provoked … adjustment
(E) perpetrated … permission

145.The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even .

(A) observable
(B) real
(C) comprehended
(D) rare
(E) imaginable

146. Although Shakespeare received little formal education, scholarship has in recent years the view that he was the work of classical authors.

(A) substantiated … unimpressed by
(B) eroded … obsessed by
(C) supported … oblivious to
(D) questioned … influenced by
(E) undermined … unfamiliar with

147.Darwin’s method did not really the idea of race as an important conceptual category; even the much more central idea of species was little more than a theoretical .

(A) require … convenience
(B) apply … measurement
(C) exclude … practice
(D) subsume … validation
(E) reject … fact

148. The functions of the hands, eyes, and brain are so that using the hands during early childhood helps to promote the child’s entire development.

(A) intertwined … perceptual
(B) unalterable … intellectual
(C) enigmatic … psychological
(D) regulated … adolescent
(E) individualized … social

149. Before 1500 North America was inhabited by more than 300 cultural groups, each with different customs, social structures, world views, and languages; such diversity the existence of a single Native American culture.

(A) complements
(B) implies
(C) reiterates
(D) argues against
(E) explains away

150.That dealers enough to nurture a young modern painter’s career rather than plunder it exist is not impossible, but the public’s appetite for modern art makes such dealers less and less likely.

(A) chivalrous … discriminating
(B) magnanimous … quirky
(C) patient … insatiable
(D) cynical … finicky
(E) reckless … zealous

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