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