101. Biographer Janet Malcolm maintains that biography is a spurious art, for the orderly narrative it creates is ________ ; the "facts" aren't facts at all, but literary ________ .
1 g, A! P# V2 W w- m7 ?/ a (A) illusory ... inventions
& X& a4 b! k. r$ B8 r4 w/ L! ? (B) genuine ... commonplaces1 O5 Q1 N/ I. B
(C) informative ... allusions
! W) t* @: \/ x3 c. U6 H; b (D) brilliant ... triumphs
% u1 D( p3 T" ] (E) sincere ... criticisms. w4 G9 N) I/ S/ R4 j
102. Biography is a literary genre whose primary ________ is an ability to ________ imaginatively the inner life of a subject on the basis of all the knowable external evidence.. e/ u" X6 C$ O9 l, [5 F% U
(A) requisite ... reconstruct3 i! _3 |0 ^4 ^1 F+ z3 |
(B) consequence ... disregard: ~( ^' j6 [( y
(C) peculiarity ... envision R1 J# V! |0 o' I0 i
(D) weapon ... undermine
- [/ F4 w1 V: ^, ?- a" r: \2 P! k (E) claim ... counteract
1 l- `. P; T* R5 m 103. Biologists categorize many of the world's environments as deserts: regions where the ________ availability of some key factor, such as water, sunlight, or an essential nutrient, places sharp constraints on the existence of living things.* S8 e1 q0 D( ]! T0 I
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(B) gradual+ S, \% N2 q, |% p- ^0 y
(C) limited% @& E& {$ C! ?2 I. M; n5 J
(D) nearby1 U0 J( W, F6 s9 e4 ^1 ^" c
(E) unprecedented
# q7 t) i- A, H+ p2 a. m! _ 104. Black religion was in part a protest movement—a protest against a system and a society that was ________ designed to ________ the dignity of a segment of God's creation.
5 b3 g, c0 S( N( t (A) unintentionally ... reflect
# z; C+ u7 N. x8 Z$ I/ { (B) explicitly ... foster
/ v! ]" Q& F* U9 O: t) | (C) inevitably ... assess
: B6 E: N2 ~: H% |5 |1 F (D) deliberately ... demean
3 A& k2 z. Q7 C& n0 } (E) provocatively ... enhance
8 U2 u6 }( \% H& f/ E- ]& z 105. Boccherini was a good and interesting composer whose reputation has no sufficiently ________ the decline into which it fell after his death. ; J5 J1 u& v* J) Q' C
(A) contributed to
% M- f3 Y% F6 h (B) benefited from y8 @1 Z* A; a; S( {3 B! ]! {
(C) recovered from
# l8 g5 J- F! Y$ O (D) conflicted with
8 I- [$ \( f$ {& ` (E) derived from
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