1.While scientists dismiss as fanciful the idea of sudden
changes in a genetic code (spontaneous mutation), it
is possible that nature, like some master musician,
---- on occasion, departing from the expected or
predictable.
(A) repeats
(B) improvises
(C) ornaments
(D) corrects
(E) harmonizes
2. Despite the ---- of time, space, and history, human
societies the world over have confronted the same
existential problems and have come to remarkably
---- solutions, differing only in superficial details.
(A) continuity.. identical
(B) uniformity.. diverse
(C) actualities.. varied
(D) contingencies.. similar
(E) exigencies.. unique
3. Although he was known to be extremely ---- in his
public behavior, scholars have discovered that his
diaries were written with uncommon ----.
(A) reserved.. frankness
(B) polite.. tenderness
(C) modest.. lucidity
(D) reticent.. vagueness
(E) withdrawn.. subtlety 4. With the ---- of scientific knowledge, work on
the new edition of a textbook begins soon after
completion of the original. (A) limitation (B) culmination (C) veneration (D) certainty (E) burgeoning
5. She is most frugal in matters of business, but in her
private life she reveals a streak of ----. (A) antipathy
(B) misanthropy
(C) virtuosity
(D) equanimity
(E) prodigality
6. If the state government's latest budget problems
were ----, it would not be useful to employ them as
----examples in the effort to avoid the inevitable
effects of shortsighted fiscal planning in the future.
(A) typical.. representative
(B) exceptional.. aberrant
(C) anomalous.. illuminating
(D) predictable.. helpful
(E) solvable.. insignificant 7. Just as some writers have ---- the capacity of
language to express meaning, Giacometti ---- the
failure of art to convey reality.
(A) scoffed at .. abjured
(B) demonstrated.. exemplified
(C) denied.. refuted
(D) proclaimed.. affirmed
(E) despaired of .. bewailed 8. WALLET: MONEY::
(A) bank: vault
(B) suitcase: clothing
(C) checkbook: balance
(D) wealth: prestige
(E) envelope: stamp
38. FRIABLE:
(A) not easily crumbled
(B) not easily torn
(C) not easily melted
(D) not easily eroded
(E) not easily punctured
SECTION 5 Time –30 minutes
38 Questions
1. In spite of the fact that it is convenient to divide the
life span of animals into separate stages such as pre-
natal, adolescent, and senescent, these periods are not
really----. (A) advanced (B) variable (C) repeatable (D) connected (E) distinct
2. Although the number of reported volcanic eruptions
has risen exponentially since 1850, this indicates not
---- volcanic activity but rather more widespread
and ---- record keeping. (A) abating..detailed (B) increasing..systematic (C) substantial..erratic (D) stable..superficial (E) consistent..meticulous
3. The challenge of interpreting fictional works written
under politically repressive regimes lies in distin-
guishing what is ---- to an author's beliefs, as
opposed to what is ---- by political coercion. (A) innate.. understood (B) organic.. imposed (C) contradictory.. conveyed (D) oblique.. captured
(E) peripheral.. demanded
4. I am often impressed by my own ---- other
people's idiocies: what is harder to ---- is that they,
in their folly, are equally engaged in putting up with
mine. (A) analysis of.. justify (B) forbearance toward.. underestimate
(C) exasperation with .. credit
(D) involvement in .. allow
(E) tolerance of .. appreciate
5. Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the teen-
ager's face ----her denial that she had known
about the practical joke before it was played on her
parents. (A) belied (B) illustrated (C) reinforced (D) exacerbated (E) trivialized
6. Far from undermining the impression of permanent
decline, the ---- statue seemed emblematic of its
---- surroundings. (A) indecorous.. opulent
(B) grandiose.. ramshackle
(C) pretentious.. simple
(D) ungainly.. elegant
(E) tawdry.. blighted
7. Despite the fact that it is almost universally ----,
the practice of indentured servitude still ---- in
many parts of the world.
(A) condemned… abates
(B) tolerated.. survives
(C) proscribed.. persists
(D) mandated.. lingers
(E) disdained.. intervenes