Some Tough SC

[shaahid]

1. Ironically, Carver's precision in sketching lives on the edge of despair ensures that his stories will sometimes be read too narrowly, much as Dickens' social-reformer role once caused his broader concerns to be ____.
(A) ignored
(B) reinforced
(C) contradicted
(D) diminished
(E) diversified


2. It was not only the____ of geologists that ____ earlier development of the revolutionary idea that the Earth's continents were moving plates; classical physicists, who could not then explain the mechanism, had declared continental movement impossible.
(A) indecisiveness.. challenged
(B) radicalism.. deterred
(C) conservatism.. hindered
(D) assumptions.. hastened
(E) resistance.. mandated


3. In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a----between technology, which is----, and the errant will of a depraved intellectual.
(A) fusion.. useful
(B) struggle.. dehumanizing
(C) parallel.. unfettered
(D) conflict.. beneficent
(E) similarity.. malevolent


4. Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to____; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight ____what is hidden.
(A) condemn.. distorts
(B) monitor.. signals
(C) repress.. dramatizes
(D) obviate.. fosters
(E) divulge.. conceals


Please answer the questions with explanation.

[prankyshashank]

i m posting answer do check them i shal then tell you how did i interpret them
1a 2d 3 d 4 b

[shaahid]

OA is
1. E 2. C 3. D 4. D

[rrgre]

I just got one correct.
Can you please explain ques 1, 3, and 4 ?

[rupali41]

Originally Posted by shaahid

OA is
1. E 2. C 3. D 4. D

Can you please explain the OAs for 1, 2 and 3?

Thanks in advance!

[eLeMeNtuL]

Originally Posted by shaahid

OA is
1. E 2. C 3. D 4. D

Unfortunately, no. I believe the OAs to 2 and 3 are correct, but I had my doubts about 1 and 4. As it turns out, question 1 is actually question #5 from Big Book test #13, section #1. That OA is 'A'. Question 4 is from the same Big Book test, same section, question #2. Its OA is 'C'. I couldn't find the other questions off-hand, but those answers seem reasonable. As a corollary, I would admonish everyone to search for the OA to a particular question if one feels strongly about his/her answer choice.

So the likely OAs are:

1. A
2. C
3. D
4. C

[sham12345]

No the OA is A for the first one