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SECTION TWO
1. Mammals of temperate ~ones often give burn in the spring, thereby_________ their offspring to_________ the season's abundant food.
(A) subjecting.. subsist on
(B) encouraging.. compete for
(C) tempting..abstain from
(D) forcing.. forage for
(E) enabling.. benefit from
2. While the dome of the nineteenth-century city hall once_________ the city's skyline, a much taller new office -building now_________ the old landmark.
(A) overshadowed.. enhances
(B) dominated..dwarfs
(C) punctuated, resembles
(D) cluttered.. destroys
(E) beautified.. uplifts
3. Ancient cloth makers probably could not twist flax fibers until they had dipped the fibers into water to make them_________.
(A) solvent (B) supple (C) nonporous (D) immutable (E) invisible
4. In an effort to_________ people's physical discomforts, modem medicine sometimes wrongly treats the body's defense mechanisms as_________ and in need of corrective intervention.
(A) cure..complex
(B) prescribe..symptomatic
(C) diagnose.. suppressive
(D) relieve..defective
(E) analyze..medicinal
5. Crazy Love, by Elias Miguel Munoz, is an_________ novel: it takes the form of a series of letters.
(A) archetypal (B) epistolary (C) inauspicious (D) inconspicuous (E) illusory
6.The meal had_________ effect on the famished travelers: their energy was restored almost instantly.
(A) a tonic (B) a cloying (C) an indefinite (D) a debilitating (E) an intemperate
7.While cynics may_________ the goal of international disarmament as Utopian, others believe that laughing contemptuously at idealism leads nowhere.
(A) exalt (B) confirm (C) renew (D) deride (E) defend
8. Although his memoirs contained scathing criticisms of his opponents, the politician_________ vindictiveness as his motive.
(A) disavowed (B) claimed (C) disparaged (D) substantiated (E) evaluated
9. Even in her most casual conversation, one detects the impulse to_________, to impart knowledge systematically to her listener.
(A) mystify (B) instruct (C) insinuate (D) embellish (E) meditate
10.Ms. Turner was an_________ opponent, one who never swerved from her purpose and would never compromise or yield.
(A) inexorable (B) ambivalent (C) eloquent (D) impassive (E) obstreperous
