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 ________ .) K0 n: Z8 t9 Z+ L$ o f
(A) illusory ... inventions/ o7 m; g% A0 u' e) n3 L/ U- }
(B) genuine ... commonplaces8 K6 P0 T6 I9 P6 Z4 a. r& _0 p
(C) informative ... allusions
' n5 a" z! l* t4 W2 [9 P0 m G (D) brilliant ... triumphs
' y( Z' J6 r% V (E) sincere ... criticisms
" S* Y/ T) F+ F H 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.
. g+ b/ V" W3 |% d9 ?, ?& B (A) requisite ... reconstruct
, ^0 b% E+ W) a4 i) U" \( Y (B) consequence ... disregard1 Y3 K1 Z' R+ F; ~+ m' |, w
(C) peculiarity ... envision4 Z5 }! d3 ~! v/ ?) F# B
(D) weapon ... undermine
4 |/ N) \7 R [+ s# o {5 j4 e d( V (E) claim ... counteract* j" \/ C$ @4 }, C4 p: |" n& e! u
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.
# Z1 U5 O5 x: C# f (A) ready
2 ^( Q+ l0 w; ^9 C' G- v% k1 E (B) gradual5 [5 m2 ~# v0 d8 T
(C) limited0 S. @& A N6 }# I; f( m) I
(D) nearby n9 d: `! P- g! x
(E) unprecedented
$ A) }/ k( A, [! B 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.
0 b' r: ^1 ] @. A; u M (A) unintentionally ... reflect' ]8 O: b* z5 s% M! O
(B) explicitly ... foster
5 m9 j! X4 w6 J. e; g (C) inevitably ... assess
7 }/ P7 h& |# h& N' E: @* G8 y (D) deliberately ... demean
5 }/ A. X2 x1 L7 u! [/ e& M (E) provocatively ... enhance
/ S! B7 g! a: I3 [, x4 q 105. Boccherini was a good and interesting composer whose reputation has no sufficiently ________ the decline into which it fell after his death.
# A0 _, s7 I, m0 J6 S* _ (A) contributed to
( u+ ]9 v4 \8 E' Q9 U; R (B) benefited from% e9 E9 g% Z+ q1 W( E) `3 M
(C) recovered from
% F8 b0 V0 Y/ X9 {: M (D) conflicted with
1 r8 Z5 d2 H. _. L& N3 u* r (E) derived from- i3 G8 v' U6 p( P' ~2 ]: X
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