Mar 15, 2009 Volume 5 -- Daily Life in China, #18(45)

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1. Such information as we possess in ____ and _____, and it is only on the hypothesis that country life changes little and slowly that one ventures to draw a picture composed of data as diverse chronologically as they are geographically.
2. Even edifices in tended to last were built of light materials and constructed with incredible _____ and skill.
3. In these crowded districts of Hangchow, _____ buildings, would provide some support to each other.
4. The regulations of ceremonial details _____ the age-old attachments to the outward signs of prestige, and, through the very importance attributed to them, they in turn aroused appropriate emotions.

A) adjacent
B) fragmentary
C) perpetuated
D) dexterity
E) sparse

answer
B) fragmentary
E) sparse
D) dexterity
A) adjacent
C) perpetuated

adjacent:
1 next to or adjoining something else
2 Geometry (of angles) having a common vertex and a common side.

fragmentary:
consisting of small parts that are disconnected or incomplete

perpetuate:
make (something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief) continue indefinitely
• preserve (something valued) from oblivion or extinction

dexterity:
skill in performing tasks, esp. with the hands

sparse:
thinly dispersed or scattered
• austere; meager