1. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage. * ~1 _# @6 y/ c' U5 C! ~ w
(A) connoisseur % Y y2 u; G4 d6 X! B8 j
(B) critic
- k8 y( [# @+ Q0 A5 v6 v5 i (C) friend
" I6 s' x3 ]3 s4 v) k7 s (D) scourge
* u3 N/ s( o7 e x; z, q9 H (E) judge 5 z# }8 A2 c' U/ ^' c% Z9 m5 z' t8 e2 R" N
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2. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ________ further education.
1 q' x4 p- U. q (A) entitled to 4 @5 @% t' @+ y* u5 D% a
(B) striving for 1 ?% ?! X! g) v
(C) deprived of 1 Y/ `2 t9 L& M" t3 M8 M
(D) uninterested in Z9 Q, v: U$ ^: e
(E) participating in
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3. Broadway audiences have become inured to ________ and so ________ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
( l$ k8 E5 Y% K3 H& t; D! \ (A) sentimentality ... reluctant
2 J% Z G) k$ P9 M7 E4 w (B) condescension ... disinclined 5 u& i4 d0 E% \% S7 J b* C& M
(C) histrionics ... unlikely ' A, `, ~% @. v. L* g
(D) cleverness ... eager
?2 V5 h b' E( k% I2 e (E) mediocrity ... desperate
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4. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels. ) k! P3 t$ j7 p r1 b% F) S
(A) extrapolate % Y) Q3 H# B% | a
(B) transcribe - k) u; u& r8 c" c$ L
(C) complicate % G& k8 m, g* ~& ]. M2 p- P/ |
(D) amplify 5 k, a& G; ]) Q( d. ~7 j* u
(E) manage 8 B% m- }# @1 R2 i1 n9 ?
/ ?5 R1 B4 J3 S6 L: ?, N5. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ________ later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation. : Y, L+ y+ c& O4 Q9 e5 h
(A) disdain for & p7 b+ Z. @: @- f/ G8 }
(B) imitation of ( D$ s1 j" a% O- ]
(C) ambivalence about
: `* c; U0 n9 {4 B; P (D) deference to / S+ S* @+ P. ~6 V
(E) influence on # a( i i8 X+ K% F5 D! Q
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6. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ________. 8 u/ I: {4 ^, J
(A) irrelevant # _7 f: S9 M& Z
(B) facetious 7 j; j5 B/ n$ v8 K q5 M
(C) mistaken
& F- g' y3 ~6 z; X y (D) critical
$ i2 f7 L, G. `' l6 n6 { (E) insincere 8 } p; |. P0 P- X e9 C; G) h4 ]0 a
$ ^! V( I( h7 M D# t6 u7. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ________ critical.
: l1 A7 b9 n! N' [. m! G$ V( C (A) perennially
0 }: |7 _* X( I* x+ B (B) disturbingly
: I6 R# G% M! C% F- c9 k9 o (C) uniquely $ Y. N! N6 m+ {! J7 k
(D) archetypally
+ {! v# B3 g, X1 ^& i% ^ (E) captiously |
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