1. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________. . a2 ]& g0 S8 O2 z# q* \2 w- t& c
(A) maturity
% Z7 J+ i4 `! ~* U3 K) b3 _6 u/ A (B) fiction ' i5 p( E8 ?7 x5 s
(C) inventiveness . Q. ]! P6 |: \
(D) art
3 u* [) J* b% n8 R' `* x6 X% Y) _5 A* N (E) brilliance
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2. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ________ between them.
2 h1 r% N; e+ `; x T (A) generality
( W+ y2 v+ ^; w6 u, g% Z% S (B) fusion - U Q3 ~6 M# L1 z1 H5 i
(C) congruity . z. o* L2 l7 v. O. N' g7 ^
(D) dichotomy X* ]4 ` q7 C
(E) reciprocity - I2 T, j. r" }' c# v
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3. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ________ the ________ to abuse them.
C* c5 @, F1 o0 f2 |( g (A) negates ... temptation
* w) }1 G) D+ {5 N2 ]% e% c (B) controls ... resolution
0 T( F# X8 M3 l) v) S" w$ A (C) engenders ... propensity ; l3 f) n# T9 _9 N4 h
(D) tempers ... proclivity
8 [% G) k% t. v9 \) o (E) obviates ... inclination 2 T3 C/ `; e( i; Y9 M6 u) a
( p) X' I3 F; @2 y1 n4 M W; F! F4. Regardless of what ________ theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent — nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory. " P8 W6 X& r; q* `
(A) vague 7 h4 a( r# g' ?" h
(B) assertive
5 d: H' n/ J4 T2 E5 O4 s' I: g (C) casual
( c1 b: a' k9 T) w; T6 } (D) vicious
+ F; P; u9 G, w1 T! s' p (E) tidy
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! f* ^ _) ?) R3 U# d5. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
) ]6 H4 |0 i7 E" o' ]5 ]5 \' Q (A) segregated from
/ W" x/ G$ E$ p1 I( f1 Q9 d, U (B) parallel to ' J" ~1 j. U+ ~: P
(C) dependent on 0 q( z; |% Z+ ?
(D) overshadowed by
: v2 R2 L B) v$ h" O. w K) [( x4 ~# A (E) mimicked by - @3 _- K3 v$ j
' E( G) ~4 h; [! b6. For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom. ( H& w" s# D' K
(A) rationality
1 ~/ s% k3 ?0 u, D (B) flexibility
; h+ \6 `/ T, L. h8 ]" d( A (C) diffidence
7 _& a3 ]& ?8 h; W) h (D) disinterestedness p* Q1 L' H& h9 q2 U& w
(E) insincerity
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4 B* Z: K& K" ]* c4 v$ M, q; o7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ________; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from asense of the ________ of natural beauty and human glory. ( S( @5 e5 @ g, t$ |
(A) beautiful ... immutability
) n- _3 I" R1 c: v (B) cheerful ... transitoriness ' F+ X& l5 Y3 C/ _: m4 ^: i( I
(C) colorful ... abstractness |; F& x. {5 G) ]2 X- o7 j, Z9 w
(D) luxuriant ... simplicity ; b. K; N: w, o6 p/ L" N9 L
(E) conventional ... wildness |