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SECTION TWO
1. Despite the wide-ranging curiosity about her personal life. Eleanor Roosevelt enjoyed a degree of_________ that today's highly scrutinized public figures can only_________.
(A) privacy . . envy
(B) popularity . . celebrate
(C) privilege..imitate
(D) isolation . . regret
(E) generosity .. refuse
2. Unable to decide between a career in biology and one in philosophy. Gwen_________ her two interests and became a medical ethicist.
(A) reclaimed (B) merged (C) defined (D) abandoned (E) conveyed
3. The incompetent judge conducted the hearing in so_________ a manner that the entire proceeding was considered a_________, an insult to the standards of the judicial system.
(A) apathetic . . victory
(B) exacting .. spectacle
(C) astute .. debacle
(D) negligent.. travesty
(E) surreptitious .. triumph
4. Constance was_________ by the speech, regarding such criticisms of her company as extremely annoying.
(A) fascinated (B) galled (C) uplifted (D) soothed (E) disoriented
5. Steven tried hard to give up sweets, but he found it particularly difficult to_________ chocolate.
(A) digest (B) extol (C) impugn (D) forgo (E) relish
6. At first merely_________, his actions grew so bewildering and bizarre as to appear entirely_________ to us.
(A) dignified . . mystifying
(B) perplexing .. inexplicable
(C) eccentric . . stolid
(D) intriguing . . reasonable
(E) logical.. questionable
7. Rather than focusing on the_________ sequence of events. the historian E.M.W. Tillyard_________ a chronological approach and portrays, instead, the dominant belief patterns of an age.
(A) rational. . acknowledges
(B) temporal.. avoids
(C) universal., embraces
(D) qualitative . . employs
(E) unseen. .forsakes
8. The fashion designer's new line of spring clothing was described in the style section of the newspaper as_________, even_________; the runway collection had dazzled the audience.
(A) unassuming . . audacious
(B) capricious . . innocuous
(C) tawdry .. precocious
(D) vivacious . . insipid
(E) resplendent.. incandescent
9. Robb Armstrong's Jump Start fills a void in the cartoon industry, namely, a_________ of comic strips representing African Americans.
(A) spate (B) revision (C) dearth (D) dispersal (E) consensus
