1. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________.
. ~7 y7 h$ l+ a& J9 W4 ^: k (A) maturity
2 b& e9 t2 Z; _ K1 |* q4 h# | (B) fiction
. \; R) g( u% T& z* l( J (C) inventiveness
- w) @/ A% B: j- X, [' _ (D) art
8 I4 a7 E$ \ M& W (E) brilliance
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2. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ________ between them. ; [7 U9 @9 [6 A/ r) a
(A) generality / V8 B: G) E+ n. O
(B) fusion
1 w! q6 l2 R+ W. _5 v" Y (C) congruity " K) n" P: a6 U1 {- s
(D) dichotomy 9 X1 @8 @, S2 j- M
(E) reciprocity
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; @; p; ?' }0 \& T; a) q3. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ________ the ________ to abuse them. + V, p' K0 s, m/ y8 R
(A) negates ... temptation
! h# b8 t0 {; _% t) \4 p; N, Y (B) controls ... resolution ' m+ ?/ E9 k% Y6 a( @
(C) engenders ... propensity
3 H0 b$ {: G2 K* y8 V0 I* y (D) tempers ... proclivity 3 @* m* P4 G5 t' }
(E) obviates ... inclination
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4. Regardless of what ________ theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent — nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.
" R% [7 }: W& P2 f } (A) vague : l# D: ]3 f/ |
(B) assertive
( Q, ^5 b. L% Y6 ?0 P$ f/ p (C) casual
) g; |1 _! S! I, T4 o* F: k (D) vicious
7 V2 Y1 q0 N' z5 U0 L* R (E) tidy $ C2 a6 e" I( {* D5 {3 E
$ x h, K' W1 g7 W# H5. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
: K0 P: Z: j! ]( ?& Z) j (A) segregated from # r- w1 H: P* {8 G) U
(B) parallel to % j! c8 c" B0 a% A2 z: Q
(C) dependent on 4 M$ L, f3 k5 m8 L) }$ F Q. L
(D) overshadowed by
, Q7 E- b6 R: ~# F$ A1 Q (E) mimicked by 6 G: _' k8 a8 U9 `
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6. For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom. 5 c, I6 v- ^3 q+ V# E2 q( q
(A) rationality
' l) h( ~, ?% U# y3 ^ (B) flexibility 0 M) b% `5 W& I9 D( ~1 i
(C) diffidence
* e n- V! v! I (D) disinterestedness
u7 R. q8 L+ V& L) l9 a (E) insincerity
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7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ________; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from asense of the ________ of natural beauty and human glory. : Q* X/ X, i6 Q- J
(A) beautiful ... immutability
& F [" U: p, |/ y3 t( u. S, y! ] (B) cheerful ... transitoriness
( w2 ?; i# A8 ?$ j (C) colorful ... abstractness " T: J& Y! T& s- \
(D) luxuriant ... simplicity
0 h d4 H9 _" S( p& T3 Y6 A( B (E) conventional ... wildness |