Which of the following is the major point made by the passage above?
(A) It takes a skillful viewer to extract an authentic picture of the word and of the events in from the television images that present them both.
(B) Knowing how to watch a television program intelligently is no less important a skill than knowing how to read a book.
(C) The makers of television programs possess an arsenal of visual tricks with which they can dupe the unwary viewer.
(D) Technological innovation in video cameras is frustrating in that it often makes available features for which there is no present need and often does not supply features that could be put to good use.
(E) The skill of watching television intelligently is very much like the skill of reading a book in that each requires above all the ability to recognize illusions and distortions for what they are.
section 4
1. Faraday does not ---- any particular theory; she believes that each theory increases our understanding of some dreams but that no single theory can ---- them all.
(A) endorse.. explain
(B) discuss.. simplify
(C) mention.. replace
(D) evaluate.. identify
(E) criticize.. eradicate
2. Although his outnumbered troops fought bravely, the general felt he had no choice but to ---- defeat and ---- a retreat.
(A) hasten.. suggest
(B) seek.. try
(C) oversee.. reject
(D) overcome.. request
(E) acknowledge.. order
3. Despite some allowances for occupational mobility, the normal expectation of seventeenth- century English society was that the child's vocation would develop along familial lines;
---- the career of one's parents was therefore
----.
(A) disagreement with .. forbidden
(B) divergence from .. limited
(C) preparation for .. difficult
(D) reliance on .. unanticipated
(E) assumption of .. premature
4. The little-known but rapidly expanding use of computers in mapmaking is technologically similar to the more ---- uses in designing everything from bolts to satellites.
(A) recent
(B) impromptu
(C) publicized
(D) ingenuous
(E) secure
5. The impact of a recently published collection of essays, written during and about the last presidential campaign, is lessened by its timing; it comes too late to affect us with its ---- and too soon for us to read it out of historical----.
(A) foresight.. anxiety
(B) research .. consistency
(C) assuredness.. skepticism
(D) immediacy.. curiosity
(E) veracity.. respect
6. It would be misleading to use a published play to generalize about fifteenth-century drama: the very fact of publication should serve as a ---- of the play's ---- character.
(A) qualification.. unusual
(B) manifestation.. unsophisticated
(C) restatement.. untraditional
(D) warning.. unrepresentative
(E) demonstration.. unliterary
7. The Neoplatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the ---- of creation.
(A) profusion
(B) precision
(C) variety
(D) clarity
(E) economy
8. TUITION: INSTRUCTION::
(A) salary: increment
(B) fare: transportation
(C) ransom: imprisonment
(D) collateral: mortgage
(E) stipend: charity
So, puromycin turned out of be a disap- pointment. It came to be regarded as a poor agent for amnesia studies, although, of course, it was poor only in the context of our original paradigm of protein-synthesis inhibition. In our frustration, our initial response was simply to change drugs rather than cur conceptual orien- tation. After many such disappointments, however, it now appears unlikely that we will make a firm connection between protein synthesis and learning merely by pursuing the approaches of the past. Our experience with drugs has shown that all the amnestic ag
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