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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 ________ .

(A) illusory...inventions (B) genuine...commonplaces (C) informative...allusions (D) brilliant...triumphs (E) sincere...criticisms

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.

(A) requisite...reconstruct (B) consequence...disregard (C) peculiarity...envision (D) weapon...undermine (E) claim...counteract

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. (A) ready (B) gradual (C) limited (D) nearby

(E) unprecedented

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.

(A) unintentionally...reflect (B) explicitly...foster (C) inevitably...assess (D) deliberately...demean (E) provocatively...enhance

105. Boccherini was a good and interesting composer whose reputation has no

sufficiently ________ the decline into which it fell after his death. (A) contributed to (B) benefited from (C) recovered from (D) conflicted with (E) derived from

106. Breaking with established musical conventions, Stravinsky was ________

composer whose heterodox works infuriated the traditionalists of his day. (A) a derivative (B) an iconoclastic (C) an uncontroversial (D) a venerated (E) a trite

107. British ________ contemporary art has been an obstacle even for modem artists

now revered as great, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, who were ________ for years before winning acceptance. (A) veneration of...eulogized (B) indifference to...dismissed (C) disdain for...lauded (D) ignorance of...studied (E) intolerance of...vindicated

108. British collectors are notorious for their ________ of interest in ________ art,

much preferring to collect antiques and “important”pictures by long-dead artists. (A) wealth...modem (B) growth...abstract (C) lack...posthumous

(D) resurgence...innovative (E) dearth...contemporary

109. Burdened by debt, Lydgate abandons his dreams of reforming medicine to take a

conventional but ________ practice in London. (A) lucrative (B) ordinary (C) innovative (D) intangible (E) exotic

110. By communicating through pointing and making gestures, Charles was able to

overcome any ________ difficulties that arose during his recent trip to Japan. (A) peripatetic (B) linguistic (C) plausible (D) monetary (E) territorial

111. By dint of much practice in the laboratory, the anatomy student became

________ and was able to manipulate her dissecting tools with either hand. (A) practical (B) tricky

(C) ambiguous (D) ambidextrous (E) ambivalent

112. By nature Toshiro was ________ , given to striking up casual conversations with

strangers he encountered at bus stops or check-out stands. (A) diffident (B) observant (C) reticent (D) gregarious (E) laconic

113. By putting the entire Woolf archive on microfilm, the project directors hope to

make the contents of the manuscripts more ________ to scholars. (A) accessible (B) objective (C) appealing (D) implicit (E) relevant

114. Cancer cells are normal cells run riot, growing and multiplying out of ________ .

(A) spite (B) danger (C) control (D) apathy (E) range

115. China’s economic growth curve after reform resembles an airplane taking off,

whereas the former Soviet Union??s resembles a submarine ________ . (A) floating (B) soaring

(C) maneuvering (D) descending (E) veering

116. Compared with the ostentatious glamour of opera, classical song (increasingly

called lieder everywhere) is a more ________ tradition. (A) articulate

(B) unrepresentative (C) subdued

(D) broad-minded (E) worldly

117. Complaints about the inanity of popular leisure activities, long a staple of

American intellectual life, are routinely ________ these days as nostalgic elitism. (A) lauded (B) reinforced (C) celebrated (D) offered (E) dismissed

118. Contemporary critics often ________ the poet Longfellow as a simple

sentimentalist who relied too much on poetic meters only suitable for light verse. (A) heed (B) endorse (C) dismiss (D) embellish (E) acclaim

119. Contrary to her customary ________ behavior, Susan began leaving parties early

to seek the solitude of her room. (A) reclusive (B) circumspect (C) decorous (D) gregarious (E) altruistic

120. Courteously and ________ , but persistently, the members of the special

investigatory commission asked question after question of all the President’s aides.

(A) intrusively (B) belligerently (C) urbanely

(D) remorselessly (E) intermittently

121. Critics ________ the ________ in developing the new weather satellite to

unexpected problems in manufacturing and testing its components. (A) credit...timeliness (B) impute...success (C) attribute...delay (D) assign...importance (E) deny...threat

122. Critics of the welfare system argue that, rather than aiding people’s efforts to

govern their own lives, it ________ their independence. (A) supports

(B) saps (C) hastens (D) renews (E) abets

123. Crowther maintained that the current revival was the most fatuous and ________

production of the entire theatrical season. (A) gripping (B) inane (C) prophetic (D) memorable (E) salubrious

124. Curious____ of Florence’s history is that this great center of Italian ________

should time and again have been home to acts of appalling savagery and inhumanity.

(A) example...conflict (B) paradox...civilization (C) result...brutality

(D) convention...cultures (E) distinction...quality

125. Deeply ________ by the insult to his dignity, he maintained that no true

gentleman would accept such an calmly. (A) mortified...opportunity (B) incensed...affront (C) puzzled...honor

(D) shamed...iconoclasm (E) gratified...admonition

126. Deloria has his detractors, but his critics have had amazingly ________ success

at shaking his self-confidence or ________ his reputation. (A) great...repairing

(B) widespread...bolstering (C) little...denting (D) small...enhancing (E) poor...restoring

127. Despite all its ________ , a term of enlistment in the Peace Corps can be both

stirring and satisfying to a college graduate still undecided on a career. (A) rewards (B) renown (C) adventures (D) romance

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