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151. In the absence of any caused by danger, hardship, or even cultural difference, most utopian communities deteriorate into but enervating backwaters.

(A) turmoil … frantic
(B) mistrust … naive
(C) amelioration … ignorant
(D) decimation … intrusive
(E) stimulation … placid

152. As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either , offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action .

(A) irresolute … unlikely
(B) corroborative … redundant
(C) platitudinous … justifiable
(D) homogeneous … impartial
(E) labyrinthine … unacceptable

153. Histo compatibility antigens that attack foreign tissue in the body cannot have been through evolution expressly to organ transplantation; on the contrary, they have been found to facilitate many essential biological functions.

(A) designed … retain
(B) produced … aid
(C) developed … enhance
(D) selected … promote
(E) conserved … foil

154. Their air of cheerful self-sacrifice and endless complaisance won them undeserved praise, for their seeming gallantry was wholly motivated by a wish to avoid conflict of any sort.

(A) poignant
(B) sincere
(C) plaintive
(D) laudable
(E) craven

155. By idiosyncratically refusing to dismiss an insubordinate member of his staff, the manager not only established policy, but he also _ his heretofore good chances for promotion.

(A) instituted … bettered
(B) recognized … protected
(C) contravened … jeopardized
(D) reiterated … computed
(E) delimited … restricted

156. Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such assumptions.

(A) commonplace
(B) trivial
(C) explicit
(D) divergent
(E) fundamental

157. The widespread public shock at the news of the guilty verdict was caused partly by news stories that had acquittal.

(A) sensational … condemned
(B) buried … urged
(C) impartial … mentioned
(D) biased … predicted
(E) local … denounced

158. 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

157. 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

158. 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

159.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

160.Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything more than a solution to the company’s financial woes.

(A) fair
(B) temporary
(C) genuine
(D) realistic
(E) complete

161.Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great advances in clinical practice, it did not represent a bacterial illness, for there are some bacteria that cannot be treated with antibiotics.

(A) breakthrough in … consistently
(B) panacea for … effectively
(C) neglect of … efficiently
(D) reexamination of … conventionally
(E) resurgence of … entirely

162.A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more _ the ideas.

(A) complicated
(B) inconsequential
(C) elementary
(D) fanciful
(E) blatant

163.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

164. Even though the general’s carefully qualified public statement could hardly be , some people took it.

(A) respected … liberties with
(B) inoffensive … umbrage at
(C) faulted … exception to
(D) credited … potshots at
(E) dismissed … interest in

165. 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

166.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

167. The availability of oxygen is an essential for animal life, while carbon dioxide is equally for plant life.

(A) choice … optional
(B) duplication … selective
(C) conversion … exchangeable
(D) condition … necessary
(E) luxury … harmful

168. Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to ; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight what is hidden.

(A) condemn … distorts
(B) monitor … signals
(C) repress … dramatizes
(D) obviate … fosters
(E) divulge … conceals

169. After thirty years of television, people have become “speed watchers”; consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience .

(A) broadens
(B) begins
(C) varies
(D) flags
(E) clears

170. Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively risk- free almost nothing seems worth regulating.

(A) yet
(B) since
(C) so
(D) even though
(E) as long as

171. Ironically, Carver’s precision in sketching lives on the edge of despair ensures that his stories will sometimes be read too narrowly, much as Dickens’ social-reformer role once caused his broader concerns to be .

(A) ignored
(B) reinforced
(C) contradicted
(D) diminished
(E) diversified

172. The demise of the rigorous academic curriculum in high school resulted, in part, from the progressive rhetoric that the study of subjects previously thought as part of school learning.

(A) advocated … necessary
(B) enhanced … indispensable
(C) restricted … impractical
(D) undermined … popular
(E) sanctioned … inappropriate

173.While some see in practical jokes a wish for mastery in miniature over a world that seems very , others believe that the jokes’ purpose is to disrupt, by reducing all transactions to.

(A) dubious … confusion
(B) disorderly … symmetry
(C) harmonious … dissonance
(D) unruly … chaos
(E) turbulent … uniformity

174.Aspartame, a new artificial sugar substitute, is only replacement for saccharin because, unlike saccharin, it breaks down and loses its sweetening characteristics at high temperatures, making it for baking.

(A) an interim … ideal
(B) an apparent … excellent
(C) a potential .. versatile
(D) a significant … problematic
(E) a partial … unsuitable

175.Trapped thousands of years ago in Antarctic ice, recently discovered air bubbles are time capsules filled with information for scientists who chart the history of the atmosphere.

(A) inconsequential
(B) broken
(C) veritable
(D) resplendent
(E) impenetrable

176.In the days before the mass marketing of books, censorship was source of , which helped the sale of the book and inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson to remark: “Every burned book enlightens the world”.

(A) a respected … opinion
(B) a constant … guidance
(C) a prime … publicity
(D) an unnoticed … opposition
(E) an unpromising … criticism

177. It was not only the geologists that of earlier development of the revolutionary idea that the Earth’s continents were moving plates; classical physicists, who could not then explain the mechanism, had declared continental movement impossible.

(A) indecisiveness … challenged
(B) radicalism … deterred
(C) conservatism … hindered
(D) assumptions … hastened
(E) resistance … mandated

178.Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal .

(A) impetuosity
(B) sarcasm
(C) mockery
(D) contempt
(E) condescension

179. Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently, his furniture designs asserted the of human needs, and the furniture’s form was human use.

(A) universality … refined by
(B) importance … relegated to
(C) rationale … emphasized by
(D) primacy … determined by
(E) variability … reflected in

180.A acceptance of contemporary forms of social behavior has misled a few into believing that values in conflict with the present age are for all practical purposes.

(A) casual … reliable
(B) superficial … trenchant
(C) complacent … superseded
(D) cautious … redemptive
(E) plaintive … redundant

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