1. Created to serve as perfectly as possible their workaday----, the wooden storage boxes made in America's Shaker communities are now----for their beauty.
(A) environment.. accepted
(B) owners.. employed
(C) function.. valued
(D) reality.. transformed
(E) image.. seen
2. In order to----her theory that the reactions are----, the scientist conducted many experiments, all
of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.
(A) support.. different
(B) comprehend.. constant
(C) evaluate.. concentrated
(D) capture.. valuable
(E) demonstrate.. problematic
3. The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to----accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.
(A) insular (B) investigative (C) synoptic
(D) subjective (E) sensational
4. William James lacked the usual----death; writing to his dying father, he spoke without----about the old man's impending death.
(A) longing for.. regret
(B) awe of.. inhibition
(C) curiosity about.. rancor
(D) apprehension of.. eloquence
(E) anticipation of.. commiseration
5. Current data suggest that, although----states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggres- sion are as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically.
(A) simultaneous (B) serious
(C) exceptional (D) partial
(E) transitional
7. If duty is the natural----of one's ----the course of future events, then people who are power- ful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
(A) correlate.. understanding of
(B) outgrowth-control over
(C) determinant.. involvement in
(D) mitigant.. preoccupation with
(E) arbiter.. responsibility for
8. COMA: UNCONSCIOUSNESS::
(A) amnesia: effort (B) delirium: confusion
(C) paralysis: pain
(D) hallucination: numbness
(E) fever: calm
9. TOURNIQUET: BLOOD::
(A) bridge: river (B) antiseptic: surgery
(C) dam: water (D) pressure: air
(E) bucket: well
10. FOUNDATION: HOUSE::
(A) mountain: tunnel (B) ground: sky
(C) net: trapeze (D) pedestal: statue
(E) pole: banner
11. PHILATELIST: STAMPS::
(A) numismatist: coins
(B) astrologer: predictions
(C) geneticist: chromosomes
(D) cartographer: maps
(E) pawnbroker: jewelry
12. INSECT: BUTTERFLY::
(A) perfume: essence
(B) botany: chrysanthemum
(C) philosophy: metaphysics
(D) pitch: black (E) color: brightness
13. PERNICIOUS: INJURE::
(A) officious: deny (B) propitious: conjure
(C) audacious: allude (D) avaricious: dispel
(E) disingenuous: mislead
14. FLAG: VIGOR:
(A) endure: courage (B) tire: monotony
(C) question: perception
(D) waver: resolution (E) flatter: charm
15. EMBARRASS: MORTIFY::
(A) adumbrate: insinuate
(B) indulge: mollycoddle
(C) aggrandize: venerate
(D) relent: deflate (E) upstage: demoralize
16. DISTILL: PURITY::
(A) leaven: volume (B) pulverize: fragility
(C) absorb: brilliance
(D) homogenize: fluidity
(E) conduct: charge
Initially the Vinaver theory that Malory's eight romances, once thought to be fundamentally unified. were in fact eight independent works produced both a sense of relief and an unpleasant shock. Vinaver's the- ory comfortably explained away the apparent contra- dictions of chronology and made each romance inde- pendently satisfying. It was, however, disagreeable to find that what had been thought of as one book was now eight books. Part of this response was the natural reaction to the disturbance of set ideas. Nevertheless, even now, after lengthy consideration of the theory's refined but legitimate observations, one cannot avoid the conclusion that the eight romances are only one work. It is not quite a matter of disagreeing with the theory of independence, but of rejecting its implica- tions: that the romances may b
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