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No. 5-1 SECTION 1

1. Clearly refuting sceptic, researchers have----not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what theory----it should do.

(A) doubted.. warranted

(B) estimated.. accepted

(C) demonstrated.. predicted

(D) assumed.. deduced

(E) supposed.. asserted

2. Sponsors of the bill were----because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law.

(A) unreliable (B) well-intentioned

(C) persistent (D) relieved (E) detained

3. The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her----search for her daughter.

(A) extended (B) agitated

(C) comprehensive (D) motiveless

(E) heartless

4. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadel- phians in 1793, and so----Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in----in the Western Hemi- sphere.

(A) terrorized.. contention

(B) ravaged.. secret

(C) disabled.. quarantine

(D) corrupted.. quiescence

(E) decimated.. abeyance

5. Although----, almost self-effacing in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong

----publicity and controversy.

(A) conventional.. interest in

(B) monotonous.. reliance on

(C) shy.. aversion toward

(D) retiring.. penchant for

(E) evasive.. impatience with

6. Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although a hint of----can boost sales of video clips very nicely.

(A) self-deprecation (B) congeniality

(C) cynicism (D) embarrassment

(E) self-doubt

7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gar- dens were not necessarily intended to look---;they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ----of natural beauty and human glory.

(A) beautiful.. immutability

(B) cheerful.. transitoriness

(C) colorful.. abstractness

(D) luxuriant.. simplicity

(E) conventional.. wildness

8. APPLE: SKIN::

(A) potato: tuber (B) melon: rind

(C) tomato: fruit (D) maize: cob

(E) rhubarb: leafstalk

9. FIRE: INFERNO::

(A) speech: shout (B) wind: temperature

(C) storm: hurricane (D) whale: minnow

(E) plant: flower

10. BODYGUARD: PERSON::

(A) police officer: traffic (B) teacher: pupil

(C) major: city (D) soldier: country

(E) secretary: office

11. LOPE: RUN::

(A) uncover: lose (B) view: see

(C) sigh: moan (D) chew: drink

(E) drawl: speak

12. HOAX: DECEIVE::

(A) scandal: vilify (B) lottery: disburse

(C) gimmick: wheedle (D) filibuster: delay

(E) boast: cajole

13. ALCOVE: RECESS::

(A) turret: chimney (B) dome: roof

(C) column: entrance (D) foyer: ballroom

(E) foundation: building

14. BALLAST: INSTABILITY::

(A) buoy: direction (B) purchase: slippage

(C) lathe: metal (D) pulley: leverage

(E) hoist: elevator

15. MUFFLE: SOUND::

(A) assuage: grief (B) maul: object

(C) extract: flavor (D) endure: agony

(E) conceal: secret

16. MITIGATE: SEVERE::

(A) compile: available (B) restore: new

(C) contribute: charitable

(D) venerate: reverent (E) qualify: general

A Marxist sociologist has argued that racism stems from the class struggle that is unique to the capitalist system-that racial prejudice is generated by capitalists as a means of controlling workers. His thesis works rel- atively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as "racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition," can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe. However, since prejudice against these latter peoples was not inspired by capitalists, he has to reason that such an

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