26. Afraid that the ________ nature of the plays being presented would corrupt the morals of their audiences, the Puritans closed the theaters in 1642. ( ^8 P5 n. y2 t. R
(A) mediocre
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" u5 W( N. |5 o9 r3 }- |- r4 r" } (C) profound ) ]( P3 s9 o4 B! @0 p
(D) lewd
3 r4 ]+ y8 m3 r: W' I1 o P- o (E) witty
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+ Z! u$ R5 U& B% _27. After reading numbers of biographies recounting dysfunctions and disasters, failed marriages and failed careers, Joyce Carol Gates ________ a word to ________ the genre: pathography, the story of diseased lives.
7 c5 N/ i7 Z7 g% H' T I (A) invented ... curtail 9 U6 b( s% U; f
(B) reiterated ... criticize % o/ Q7 t' \( Y( C; d1 F2 u
(C) hypothesized ... indict
# ~! l# D: T' X+ o+ E9 w- l (D) dismissed ... obscure : R, r7 \7 t$ @* z7 x
(E) coined ... describe 7 ~ T8 v' P' t, ?
; Y V( ]* ~; B2 x9 d28. After the lonely rigors of writing, Mr. Doyle enjoys the ________ aspects of filmmaking.
5 z! B& {& X) ~; P0 V/ \* S, i2 P (A) impersonal 4 i( e4 U% }1 z
(B) transitory 3 P4 {! w* t& Y! e
(C) narrative
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(E) profitable
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3 W+ y, s" g- H7 {6 c+ w1 P0 q5 R A29. Aimed at curbing European attempts to seize territory in the Americas, the Monroe Doctrine was a warning to ________ foreign powers.
1 T& a, ?1 F" M (A) magnanimous
4 A4 i2 h- Y, [0 [7 H (B) credulous
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(D) predatory
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30. All critics have agreed that the opera’s score is ________ , but, curiously, no two critics have agreed which passages to praise and which to damn.
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(C) unsurpassed (D) conventional ( s; g4 f5 U5 A
(E) uneven
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