1. When an oppressed group revolts against a society， one must look for the ---forces that led to the group’s ---that society.
(A) disparate ...acknowledgment of
(B) specific ...dependence on
(C) altered ...redistribution within
(D) focused ...interference with
(E) underlying ...alienation from
2. Every novel invites us to enter a world that is initially strange; our gradual and selective orientation to its manners---infants’ ---to their environment.
(A) imitates.. welcome
(B) completes ...introduction
(C) resembles ...adjustment
(D) alters ...blindness
(E) reinforces ...resistance
3. Superficial differences between the special problems and techniques of the physical sciences and those of the biological sciences are sometimes cited as evidence for the ---of biology and for the claim that the methods of physics are therefore not adequate to biological inquiry.
(A) autonomy
(B) vitalism
(C) purposiveness
(D) obsolescence
(E) irrelevance
4. As the creation of new knowledge through science has become ---resistance to innovation has become less ---taking the form of inertia rather than direct attack.
(A) controversial ...sporadic
(B) institutionalized ...aggressive
(C) essential ...effective
(D) public ...circumspect
(E) suspect ...lively
5. Lizzie was a brave woman who could dare to incur a great danger for an adequate ----.
(A) risk
(B) combat
(C) object
(D) event
(E) encounter
6. Rousseau’s short discourse， a work that was generally ---the cautious， unadorned prose of the day， deviated from that prose style in its
---discussion of the physical sciences.
(A) critical of ...lengthy
(B) superior to ...austere
(C) bolder than ...intelligent
(D) consistent with ...unrestrained
(E) influenced by ...uninspired
7. Certainly Murray’s preoccupation with the task of editing the Oxford English Dictionary begot a kind of monomania， but it must be regarded as a ---or at least an innocuous one.
(A) tame
(B) tendentious
(C) meretricious
(D) beneficent
(E) sincere
8. GARBLED: COMPREHEND:
(A) convoluted : tangle
(B) obscured : recognize
(C) emancipated : free
(D) expunged : excite
(E) determined : placate
9. HEAT : CALORIMETER:
(A) distance : odometer
(B) gasoline : tachometer
(C) wind : velocity
(D) rain : humidity
(E) ocean : tide
10. ALLY : WAY :
(A) patriot: brawl
(B) crew: ship
(C) spouse : marriage
(D) peer : class
(E) teammate : game
(A) shoplift: customer
(B) trespass: property
(C) gossip: discussion
(D) arrest: suspect
(E) subpoena: witness
12. PALPABLE: TOUCH:
(A) malleable: gild
(B) palatable: ingest
(C) pliable: mold
(D) edible: cook
(E) appreciable: please
13. SUBMERGE: WATER:
(A) imprison : walls
(B) immolate: fire
(C) inter: earth
(D) freeze: ice
(E) besiege: army
14. RUTHLESS: MERCY:
(A) careless: duty
(B) pallid: subtlety
(C) insipid: flavor
(D) onerous: difficulty
(E) assiduous: energy
15. MINION: DEPENDENY:
(A) dilettante: artist
(B) groveler: petitioner
(C) coward: criminal
(D) consul: emissary
(E) vicar: curate
16. PANEGRYIC: PRAISE:
(A) oration: prediction
(B) fiat: condescension
(C) manifesto: indecision
(D) stutter: hesitation
(E) valediction: farewell
