411. The developing brain can be likened to a highway system that ________ use: less traveled roads may be abandoned, popular roads broadened, and new ones added where they are needed.
4 Z* Q9 T" ~. M- s% B# I (A) suffers from 1 q: v9 Z$ Y4 k# ]
(B) evolves with
/ ?7 a4 W0 @9 g) ?' e2 b/ u (C) detours around
8 {8 h4 a6 c9 X* k (D) atrophies with
5 q5 J$ C$ m+ T! e+ H1 H% J (E) buckles under
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( [3 m. M8 m6 S1 A# g412. The discovery by George Poinar and Roberta Hess that amber could preserve intact tissue from million-year-old insects ________ the possibility, since proved correct, that it also could preserve intact DNA. a& G2 i$ {/ x1 N, _ I+ L7 k* Y
(A) eliminated
( a1 v7 }$ K. u. V1 P5 @* C9 N (B) distorted
/ S8 a" m5 c1 X (C) raised ; U4 H7 h$ D% G9 |* g
(D) precluded 9 [/ A4 Y& q$ p" D. j$ E+ K
(E) predestined 0 X- ?8 W% y0 s5 L
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413. The dispute became so ________ that we were afraid the adversaries would come to blows. 2 |0 h3 F3 f# }- w) B+ X
(A) ironic ! W, S: M' N2 d
(B) generalized / G' F( x& I- h. s* H: U
(C) didactic 6 o1 |+ A5 O3 d
(D) articulate
1 i8 ]' m, C- [6 b! Q (E) acrimonious
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414. The eighteenth century was a kind of golden age in deaf history because with the establishment of deaf schools, deaf people emerged from ________ and began to appear in positions of eminence and ________ as writers, engineers, philosophers, and intellectuals.
5 i0 m4 X D ^' o (A) retirement ... ambiguity : I+ z% O u& S9 V
(B) seclusion ... compromise
4 Y* r n' K4 `) F) ] (C) obscurity ... responsibility ! l7 P- i) {. C7 x" r3 ]
(D) hiding ... ignominy / E: I% J L W: J
(E) solicitude ... disrepute
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415. The enemy soldiers were hot in pursuit; desperate, the fugitive sought ________ in the village church. 1 l. r, t, i' N- t" T; a
(A) salvation
/ n, g7 f' O6 X9 C/ X (B) sanctuary 2 J# f9 C2 L; t) Y) J+ j( p
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(D) therapy . X9 `- D' U+ S' C- q# g% y6 J
(E) repudiation |
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