1. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage. . H/ ]0 X F& m+ {
(A) connoisseur
+ n$ l/ J5 ?6 i$ U (B) critic
2 v2 Z+ _* O$ \, K( k5 {& V/ C; u4 p (C) friend
- p2 Y* T$ |, w# D$ \, I (D) scourge ; S7 ]' H' ^+ S( \
(E) judge " |# h6 S+ s$ x9 i2 `9 j2 B- q8 Q
# r( C- y1 k: C7 j8 L' G2. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ________ further education.
: o8 ^" |! O/ U. f; l3 R (A) entitled to 9 S6 s2 \+ p( v% k/ P- G' u. k2 S
(B) striving for
+ v: T" d' F- h3 C% t; q7 {7 B' ~! } (C) deprived of
) m! Y0 I/ s& O! p (D) uninterested in % Z$ A/ w1 ?" x" Y4 e
(E) participating in
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3. Broadway audiences have become inured to ________ and so ________ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
' h2 N4 \( [! J4 |, ? (A) sentimentality ... reluctant
9 G& a9 N1 ~$ u$ E. e. ? (B) condescension ... disinclined
* n" y- U! J; O' ^0 B (C) histrionics ... unlikely , E" f, b4 Z" U( }4 s
(D) cleverness ... eager
/ L( H8 B5 l6 N0 X4 e (E) mediocrity ... desperate 3 q( U* \ Q, A
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4. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
2 c, K1 ^0 f2 Q! I6 U (A) extrapolate
2 h& @& k5 K0 l% ` (B) transcribe % H; @5 p) c6 p7 C/ J9 x
(C) complicate 4 y8 z6 g- H! b. A: h2 b" j: s9 v
(D) amplify ) J0 S! f+ t% A( |4 R E
(E) manage
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5. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ________ later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation. Y* ?+ @. Q( v
(A) disdain for ; l1 ` A5 H" `# s; Q' r6 a$ ?
(B) imitation of * a7 w8 s' q0 @
(C) ambivalence about t( b8 d/ _; g. w0 e, G8 b1 t3 V$ u
(D) deference to
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6. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ________. 4 C$ n1 T! r4 a
(A) irrelevant & R X8 q) |% y, [1 I3 F, T
(B) facetious : c) R( Y7 u% J+ }$ _
(C) mistaken / q& n( W+ p/ t+ V* x$ j) P" l
(D) critical 2 [5 s: F. L& `3 G: T' D: Q7 `" h
(E) insincere 4 R- l+ U" l, O4 f( t8 C" X+ D
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7. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ________ critical.
/ R! z6 K# m' @9 m7 b# S3 c0 i (A) perennially
+ R: ?- H3 ^0 E) `6 O (B) disturbingly & w* z% H! \/ R. A
(C) uniquely 6 n1 E. y% z7 F4 P, c+ x% c' I
(D) archetypally + \+ S- [& A& T: ^5 z7 \
(E) captiously |
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