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Question 1 of 8 (INCORRECT)
Question

With these _ sites as evidence,it would be ____ to draw definite conclusions as to

the places typically selected as settlements by the people of neolithic age.
Answer Choices

Answer Choice Popularity

Your
Choice
10%
(Incorrect A. Imperfect….Feasible
)

16%
B. Abundant….Presumptuous

8%
C. Scatter….Prudent

60%
D. Few….Unsound

6%
E. Complete….Imprudent

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Question 2 of 8 (INCORRECT)
Question
Although great care is _ in the investigation of a crime scene, the rapid
deterioration of some forms of evidence demands _.
Answer Choices
Answer Choice Popularity

A. Desirable….Haste 39%

B. Unnecessary….Swiftness 4%

C. Assumed….Attention 14%
 D. Common….Speed 12%

Your
Choice E. Required….Thoroughness 31%
(Incorrect)
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Question 3 of 8 (CORRECT)
Question

Although the developers have not yet been able to solve the bugs in the new
software, their lack of _ so far cannot be interpreted as final _.
Answer Choices

Answer Choice Popularity

5%
A. Continuity….Suspension

6%
B. Motive….Rejection

Your
Choice 68%
C. Success….Failure
(Correct)

6%
D. Alternatives….Bafflement

14%
E. Concern….Defeat

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Question 4 of 8 (CORRECT)
Question
Unlike his _ brother,John is very determined to join Navy.
Answer Choices
Answer Choice Popularity

Your
Choice A. Irresolute 51%
(Correct)
 B. Obstinate 15%

C. Timid 24%

D. Unwavering 6%

E. Humorless

Question 5 of 8 (CORRECT)
Question
His _ virtues were much talked about, and in fact he was praised for once having
travelled 13 hrs journey just to help his needy friend.
Answer Choices
Answer Choice Popularity

A. Lowly 5%

B. Surreptitious 27%

Your
Choice C. Resplendent 47%
(Correct)

D. Homely 12%

E. Pithy

My mother asked me to demonstrate a _ of common sense to make the right

decision.
Answer Choices
Answer Choice Popularity

A. Disdain 7%

56%

B. Modicum
 C. Moderate 9%

Your
Choice D. Nominal 12%
(Incorrect)

E. Fractious

Question 7 of 8 (INCORRECT)
Question
Although predators are _ by traps, poison, and shotguns,they _ to feast on flocks
of sheep.
Answer Choices
Answer Choice Popularity

A. Harmed….Hesitate 8%

B. Encouraged….Attempt 4%

Your
Choice C. Lured….Refuse 10%
(Incorrect)

D. Destroyed….Cease 9%

E. Impeded….Continue

Question 8 of 8 (INCORRECT)
Question
The _ acts committed by Tom were enough to warrant him_ from the school, and
so he had to take up admission in another school.
Answer Choices
Answer Choice Popularity
3%

A. Livid….Appreciation
 B. Heterodox….Introduction 3%

C. Heinous….Extradition 69%

Your
Choice D. Pacific….Ejection 11%
(Incorrect)

E. Divine….Expulsion 13%

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Question 1 Analysis

Dependence by primitive humans on their environment would not have The correct
permitted them to be ------- the effects of the surrounding world on them. response is (C).
Dependence on
one's environment
(A) intrigued by would in all
likelihood make
(B) protected from one concerned
about it. Version
(C) makes sense;
(C) indifferent about
primitive humans
would surely not
(D) surprised by have been
indifferent
(unconcerned)
(E) knowledgeable about
about how the
environment
might affect them.

Question 2
Shakespeare's ------- of Richard III is so ------- that it is
difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for
more than a century before the Bard cast him as the
central character in one of his plays.
Analysis
The correct response is (E). The
first part of the sentence
(containing both missing words)
must explain why it difficult to

(A) rendition..compelling
(B) criticism..candid
(C) caricature..inventive
(D) portrayal..droll
(E) depiction..vivid
Question 3
When listening to a medieval Gregorian chant, the
listener does not encounter the composer's
individual personality; -------, the chant merely
------- both the musical and religious rules of the
period.
(A) rather..embodies
(B) in addition..conveys
(C) instead..belies
(D) in other words..repudiates
(E) moreover..reflects
Question 4
Even detractors who warn of its
potential for abuse by powerful despots
agree that genetic engineering, if used
-------, can reduce the incidence of the
sort of physical and mental deformities
that any society would want to
eliminate.
(A) premeditatedly
(B) biologically
imagine that Richard III had been
dead for so long when Shakespeare
wrote the play. A vivid (lifelike or
realistic) depiction (characterization
or description) of the ruler would
provide just such an explanation.
Analysis
The correct response is (A). The
operative word in this sentence
is merely, which calls for a contrast
between the first and second
clause. The first missing word
should set up that contrast. Only
(A) and (C) accomplish this. Of
these two choices, only (A) makes
complete sense. (The
word beliesmeans "misleads or
deceives" and makes no sense here
in tandem with the word merely.)
Analysis
The correct
response is (D).
The missing
word must
contrast with
the notion of
abuse of
genetic
engineering,
while at the
same time be
consistent with
 the desirable
goal of reducing
(C) recklessly
the incidence of
deformities.
(D) discriminately Only (D)
accomplishes
both. To use
(E) illicitly
the technology
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apply it only
toward certain
ends (such as
reducing
deformities)
and not toward
others (such as
creating a
master race
that dominates
others).

Question 5
Analysis
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, having become a manifesto for
psychopaths and potential miscreants, is viewed by many high-school The correct
administrators as too ------- to be suitable for teenage students. response is (C).
A miscreant is a
villain, scoundrel, or
(A) austere criminal. The
sentence infers
(B) insipid that Catcher In the
Rye might provoke
(incite) potential
(C) provocative
miscreants to
engage in violent
(D) aberrant antisocial behavior.

(E) progressive

Question 6
Analysis
The high incidence of speech articulation disorders
among young children suggests that such "disorders" areThe correct
------- developmental phenomena, since they generally response is
occur less frequently among ------- age groups. (A). The first
operative word
in the
(A) actually normal..other
 sentence
issince, which
(B) relatively rare..certain
means
"because"
(C) very serious..most here. The fact
that the
disorders
(D) clinically acceptable.. younger
appear
frequently only
(E) commonly misunderstood..older among young
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"disorders" are
not disorders
at all, but
rather normal
developmental
phenomena
that children
grow out of.
Version (A)
conveys this
idea. The
second
operative word
is disorders (in
quotes). The
fact that the
word appears
in quotes
provides a clue
that the term
might be a
misnomer--an
inappropriate
label. Again,
version (A)
conveys this
idea.

Question 7
Analysis
Paradoxically,
industrialist Andrew The correct
Carnegie gained his response is (E).
reputation for The operative word
------- at the in this sentence
expense of his own isparadoxically. A
factory workers, paradox is an
who were apparent
oppressed by the contradiction. So
------- steel the sentence
magnate to an intends to point
extent that would out two
be considered by contradictory traits
today's standards of Carnegie. (E)
of labor practice to accomplishes
be unconscionable. this. Philanthropy li
terally means "love
of humankind" and
(A) is usually used to
efficiency..affluent describe generous
charitable giving
(B) by wealthy
innovation..benevol individuals.
ent Carnegie's cost-
cutting business
practices and
(C) oppressive
stinginess..entrepre treatment of his
neurial labor force would
seem paradoxical,
(D) given his
ruthlessness..shrew reputation as a
d philanthropist.

(E)
philanthropy..cost-
conscious
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Question 8
The fossil record reveals innumerable
instances of environmental ------- by
which one can draw an analogy
between the evolution of life on Earth
and the branches of a bush, a few of
which ------- but most of which branch
again and again.
(A) calamities..end abruptly
(B) adaptations..progress linearly
Analysis
The correct response is (B).
The operative phrase in this
sentence is by which. What
precedes this key phrase must
adequately explain the analogy
that follows it. Version (B) fits
the bill. In the context of
evolution, many organisms
have continually adapted to
environmental changes,
resulting in a large variety of
 species (in a continual
branching manner); in other
(C) safeguards..wither and die
words, for most organisms
evolution is not linear.
(D) events..intertwine

(E) changes..produce leaves

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Question 9
Analysis
The government's ------- clinical study
requirements for approval of new drugs do not The correct response is
------- pharmaceutical firms when it comes to (B). The operative
research and development, chiefly because of word in this sentence
the profit potential afforded by patent is because, which
protection. requires that what
follows it must explain
what precedes it. Profit
(A) official..permit potential would explain
why drug companies
(B) onerous..dissuade persist in developing
new drugs
despite onerous (burde
(C) extensive..motivate
nsome) government
regulations. Version
(D) unenforceable..favor (B) expresses this
idea. (The
word dissuade means
(E) vague..prejudice
"discourage or
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Question 10
Analysis
In the United States, the development of the field of
sociology was not ------- controversies; rather, it The correct response is (D). The
burgeoned from social experience, which explains the first operative word in the
relatively ------- approach among American sociologists to sentence israther, which sets up
identifying and solving social problems. a contrast between what
precedes it and what follows it.
So the first clause must run
(A) impeded by political..academic contrary to the phrase "it
burgeoned [grew] from social
(B) challenged by academic..theoretical experience." Only (A), (C), and
(D) fit the bill. Of these three
choices, (D) establishes the

(C) hindered by petty..controversial
(D) stimulated by ideological..empirical
(E) sparked by social..experimental
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clearest contrast—
between ideology andexperience.
A second operative term in the
sentence is which explains. What
follows this phrase must be
consistent with what precedes it.
Version (D) accomplishes just
that. The word empirical means
experience (as opposed to
theory)."