EVENT HORIZON Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 1. The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly----, most frequently by human intervention. (A) celebrated (B) predicted © observed (D) disturbed (E) questioned 2. There is some----the fact that the author of a book as sensitive and informed as Indian Artisans did not develop her interest in Native American art until adulthood, for she grew up in a region rich in American Indian culture. (A) irony in (B) satisfaction in © doubt about (D) concern about (E) presumptuousness in 3. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable----through a complex network of producers and consumers. (A) commodities (B) dividends © communications (D) nutrients (E) artifacts 4. Observable as a tendency of our culture is a -----of ------psychoanalysis: we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems. (A) divergence.. certainly about (B) confrontation.. enigmas in © withdrawal.. belief in (D) defense.. weaknesses in (E) failure.. rigor in 5. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ----critical. (A) perennially (B) disturbingly © uniquely (D) archetypally (E) captiously 6. Rhetoric often seems to----over reason in a heated debate, with both sides----in hyperbole. (A) cloud.. subsiding (B) prevail.. yielding © triumph.. engaging (D) reverberate.. clamoring (E) trample.. tangling 7. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ----of----. (A) bereft.. theatricality (B) composed.. adversity © full.. circumstantiality (D) deprived.. polarity (E) devoid.. neutrality 8. In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricultural----for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, ----to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease. (A) circumstances.. proximity (B) regulations.. conformity © conditions.. adaptability (D) auspices.. susceptibility (E) configurations.. propensity 9. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that----was very near the surface. (A) seriousness (B) confidence © laughter (D) poise (E) determination 10. Even though in today's Soviet Union the---- the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little----to practice their religion. (A) practitioners among.. opportunity (B) dissidents within.. obligation © adversaries of.. inclination (D) leaders of.. latitude (E) traditionalists among.. incentive 11. Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to----theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly----. (A) pragmatic.. speculative (B) inelegant.. efficacious © explanatory.. intuitional (D) wrongheaded.. convergent (E) simplistic.. elusive 12. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical----or a brilliant---- blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece. (A) stratagem.. appropriation (B) exemplar.. synthesis © conversion.. annexation (D) paradigm.. construct (E) apparition.. amalgam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramgorur Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 1. disturbed 2. doubt about 3. commodities 4. withdrawal .. belief in 5. archetypally 6. triumph .. engaging 7. devoid .. neutrality 8. conditions .. adaptability 9. seriousness 10. practitioners among .. opportunity 11. inelegant .. efficacious 12. apparition .. amalgam of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dundunfrompku Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 1. The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly----, most frequently by human intervention. (A) celebrated (B) predicted © observed (D) disturbed (E) questioned 2. There is some----the fact that the author of a book as sensitive and informed as Indian Artisans did not develop her interest in Native American art until adulthood, for she grew up in a region rich in American Indian culture. (A) irony in (B) satisfaction in © doubt about (D) concern about (E) presumptuousness in 3. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable----through a complex network of producers and consumers. (A) commodities (B) dividends © communications (D) nutrients (E) artifacts 4. Observable as a tendency of our culture is a -----of ------psychoanalysis: we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems. (A) divergence.. certainly about (B) confrontation.. enigmas in © withdrawal.. belief in (D) defense.. weaknesses in (E) failure.. rigor in 5. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ----critical. (A) perennially (B) disturbingly © uniquely (D) archetypally (E) captiously 6. Rhetoric often seems to----over reason in a heated debate, with both sides----in hyperbole. (A) cloud.. subsiding (B) prevail.. yielding © triumph.. engaging (D) reverberate.. clamoring (E) trample.. tangling 7. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ----of----. (A) bereft.. theatricality (B) composed.. adversity © full.. circumstantiality (D) deprived.. polarity (E) devoid.. neutrality 8. In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricultural----for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, ----to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease. (A) circumstances.. proximity (B) regulations.. conformity © conditions.. adaptability (D) auspices.. susceptibility (E) configurations.. propensity 9. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that----was very near the surface. (A) seriousness (B) confidence © laughter (D) poise (E) determination 10. Even though in today's Soviet Union the---- the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little----to practice their religion. (A) practitioners among.. opportunity (B) dissidents within.. obligation © adversaries of.. inclination (D) leaders of.. latitude (E) traditionalists among.. incentive 11. Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to----theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly----. (A) pragmatic.. speculative (B) inelegant.. efficacious © explanatory.. intuitional (D) wrongheaded.. convergent (E) simplistic.. elusive 12. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical----or a brilliant---- blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece. (A) stratagem.. appropriation (B) exemplar.. synthesis © conversion.. annexation (D) paradigm.. construct (E) apparition.. amalgam Correct me if anyone is wrong, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riyad Mohammad Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 12. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical----or a brilliant---- blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece. (A) stratagem.. appropriation (B) exemplar.. synthesis © conversion.. annexation (D) paradigm.. construct (E) apparition.. amalgam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramgorur Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 please tell us the OA's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVENT HORIZON Posted June 5, 2010 Author Share Posted June 5, 2010 please tell us the OA's The OA for Q1 to Q12 are DAACC CECCD EE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramgorur Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Can anyone explain this one for me please ! What is the problem with B ? Why it HAS TO be E ?? Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to----theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly----. (A) pragmatic.. speculative (B) inelegant.. efficacious © explanatory.. intuitional (D) wrongheaded.. convergent (E) simplistic.. elusive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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