1. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage. 0 q- O; z! ~. V& C5 }1 q2 }
(A) connoisseur
# o3 d5 K+ h X* s. Q9 U. K (B) critic 4 t' E. g1 p: W8 A" Z
(C) friend 0 Y0 {. M- Q. `0 `/ {
(D) scourge 7 B& I- f8 E* ~, t6 ~1 ^: T3 H
(E) judge
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/ S4 ]$ B* H, D+ J2 e2. 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. $ n t! X% b' o3 E0 T' {
(A) entitled to # J, u: Q4 z8 q4 l
(B) striving for 1 a/ _" S$ _% d8 H
(C) deprived of ( {8 Z0 x! w: @3 m8 P G
(D) uninterested in
1 `$ C; D$ N2 U4 M- 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. 7 a; }3 f, E2 |& q, \1 b. o0 w
(A) sentimentality ... reluctant
]) N; c# M: J6 [) |9 k, _; J (B) condescension ... disinclined
$ K# T+ _% X4 u! e (C) histrionics ... unlikely . d) ?: q" W& [( i
(D) cleverness ... eager 7 ^4 P& v6 _& D
(E) mediocrity ... desperate ( d, M9 v6 B A3 `' M" L
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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.
6 f. F& M3 M! I0 X (A) extrapolate ' v' S c, k8 `- L* w
(B) transcribe $ c8 u t5 @, d" F# C
(C) complicate
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(E) manage 2 k' Z2 C% [$ o0 Q
2 M& z9 k H* a8 I5. 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. 1 w1 L9 g6 @3 D6 a8 |* P2 B
(A) disdain for
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(C) ambivalence about / W: f; y% r( x
(D) deference to
$ m8 e+ J g0 v: y; U% n (E) influence on 5 N. E6 k% \5 o! g/ ]
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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 ________.
6 K" j% h7 B" v$ ~* i (A) irrelevant
l& L( o9 ^9 L" f$ K4 `1 M- w: F (B) facetious
1 n4 s7 z1 x! S6 | (C) mistaken # H- W# Y. M" s- s: p- f: |
(D) critical
4 ]6 m2 J M$ P (E) insincere
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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.
: P: z" H: V& E+ K7 L (A) perennially
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(C) uniquely " m9 G6 a ~( Z) [ G
(D) archetypally ( {! |8 n7 m2 p; S3 A1 O* a
(E) captiously |
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