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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:  Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

 

1.   The architects of New York’s early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there  at  a fifteenth- century  palace, sought to leginitimize the city’s social strivings by _____ a history the city did not truly_____ 

A.      Revealing …… deserve       B. displaying …..   Desire     C. evoking …..possess    D. preserving ……. Experience

2.   Opponents of the expansion of the market economy, although in _____, continued to constitute _____ political force throughout the century.

A.      Error……an inconsequential     B. retreat ….. a powerful    c. disarray….. a disciplined   D. jeopardy…… an ineffective

3.   Queen Elizabeth 1 has quite correctly been called a _____ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

A.      Connoisseur       B. critic     C. friend     D. scourge

4.   Scientists who are on the cutting edge of research must often violate common sense and make seemingly ____ assumptions because existing theories simply do not_____ newly observed phenomena.

A.      Radical…. Confirm     B. vague…. Incorporate    C. absurd ….. explain      D. mistaken…. Reveal

5.   Neither the ideas of philosophers not the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves _______ reality; what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the _____ of the two.

A.      Constitute ……. Divergence    B. affects…….aim    C. transforms …. Interplay    D. preserve …. Conjunction

Sentence Completion HE-02 

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:  Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

 

1.   Walpole’s art collection was huge and fascinating , and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who _____him, as, at best,____.

A.      Dismissed ….. Insignificant    B. judged …. Worthwhile    C. revered ….. Talented     D. reviled ….. meager

2.   Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by _______, the leaders of the movement have recently ___ most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.

A.      Intimidation …. Issued     B. participation…. Moderated   C.  Coercion…..repudiated     D. demonstration….. deliberated

3.   Longdale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts _____ a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be _____only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.

A.      Manufacture …. Accomplished     B. reveal…… repeated    C. exhibit….. determined    D. share …… explained

4.   Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ____ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than______it.

A.      Ensure ….. Promoting     B. inhibit …. Perpetuating    C. undermine ….. Resurrecting     D. modify ….. appreciating

5.   Though feminist in its implications, Rainer’s 1974 film_______ the film-maker’s active involvement later in feminist politics.

A.      Preserved    B. portrayed    C. encouraged    D. antedated

Sentence Completion HE-02

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:  Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

 

1.       Rhetoric often seems to ______ over reason in a heated debate, with both sides ____ in hyperbole.

A.      Cloud….. subsiding     B. prevail ……. Yielding     C.  Triumph … engaging     D. reverberates …. Clamoring

2.       The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ____ such illnesses.

A.      Disguise    B. impede    C. constrain       D. precipitate

3.       While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers – the incomprehension of her colleagues- octogenarian Noble laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ________ the triumph of her once_____ scientific theories.

A.      Descry……. Innovative      B. regret ….. Insignificant    c. perpetuate ….. tentative     D. savor……heterodox

4.       No one is _____about Stephens: he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound ____in those who work for him.

A.      Neutral …. Antipathy     B. infuriated…. Aversion    C. worried ….. Anxiety    D. enthusiastic ….. veneration

5.   Hampshire’s assertions far from showing that we can ____ the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more _____ than we had thought.

A.      Adapt…… pressing     b. dismiss….. Relevant    C. rediscover    ….. Unconventional   D. address….. elusive

Sentence Completion HE-02 

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:  Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

 

1.       The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, and historical writing that takes no cognizance of facts is_____ flawed.

A.      Demographic ….. Intrinsically      B. ecological …. Marginally    C. cultural …. Substantively    D. psychological…… philosophically

2.       Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing, using hormones  to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones that ____ in the laboratory can affect ______ organisms, and in predictable ways.

A.      Develop….. Similar    B. succeeds ….. Simpler    C. fails ….. cellular    D. work …… whole

3.       Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural ____ doing so.

A.      Aptitude for     B. repugnance to    C. interest in    D. ignorance of

4.       The wonder of De Quincey is that although opium dominated his life, it never ____ him; indeed, he turned its use to ______ when he published the story of its influence in the London Magazine.

A.      Overcame….. Altruism    B. intimidated…… triumph    C. distressed …… pleasure     D. conquered …. Gain

5.       Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: his ______ childhood processes form adult._____.

A.      Reconstructed …. Memory       B. condoned …. Experience     C. incorporated…. Behavior    D.  Released ….. monotony

Sentence Completion HE-02

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:  Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

1.       Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his.  Statement had been ____.

A.      Irrelevant     B. facetious     C. insincere     D. critical

2.       The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively ____ one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.

A.      Adaptive      B. selective       C. inquisitive    D. receptive

3.        Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s ______.

A.      Boldness     B. vulnerability   C. responsibility   D. moderation

4.       Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ____ between them.

A.      Generality   B. fusion   C.  Congruity   D. dichotomy

5.       Science advances in _____ spiral in that each new conceptual scheme____the phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.

A.      A discontinuous……. Decries        B. a repetitive…… vitiates    C. a widening …. Embraces       D. an anomalous…… captures

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