The downtown business district did not grow apace with the city as a whole, and the rapid transit system designed to link the center with outlying areas withered away from disuse.
6 `1 M; b% N9 k/ UThe phrase "apace with" is closest in meaning to which of following?# @8 g/ ~# b& N( Z
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(C) as fast as
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After the 1870's, a number of important authors began to reject the romanticism that had prevailed immediately following the Civil War of 1861-1865 and turned instead to realism.
$ ]* Y+ y5 H6 O) ]: G5 ]* wThe word "prevailed" is closest in meaning to which of following?! p0 K) w# T/ t& @
(A) dominated
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(C) entered
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! ~) G9 h: F! ]; I1 c Realists such as Joel Chandler Harris and Ellen Glasgow depicted life in the South; Hamlin garland described life on the Great Plains; and Sarah Orne Jewett wrote about everyday life in rural New England.
% o Y9 Y0 n" K0 d! M2 {: g pThe word "depicted" in line11 is closest in meaning to which of following?4 j' f+ C7 s0 h, ~
(A) emphasized
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(C) criticized
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5 @. K8 |: ~$ I4 ]# F7 O Theodore Dreiser, the foremost naturalist writer, in novels such as Sister Carrie, grimly portrayed a dark world in which human beings were tossed about by forces beyond their understanding or control.
0 f. y, d2 n: k$ c g0 a& WThe word "foremost" is closest in meaning to which of following?
! w$ h% \7 @6 k B, a) X(A) most difficult3 O1 ~ E" j+ p1 ]& N
(B) interesting% h' d K- X u/ y
(C) most focused: X1 x# u6 ?0 `+ C* X, u
(D) leading
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Even in this current era of large scale, intensive research and development, the interrelationships involved in this process are frequently misunderstood./ s) |6 P: b8 J* ?
The word "intensive" is closest in meaning to which of following?.
3 ~1 K) @8 K- W(A) decreased
8 G3 b! S. f8 [) m(B) concentrated
; `/ ^7 m1 d! r3 |( W! D" u. B(C) creative
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A
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