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[amishera2007]

20. Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison.
(A) amateur's. .sensible
(B) expert's.. erratic
(C) investor's.. booming
(D) insider's.. predictable .
(E) artist's.. irrational

oa:

SPOILER: d

[amishera2007]

2. Crosby's colleagues have never learned, at least not in time to avoid embarrassing themselves, that her occasional __ air of befuddlement __ a display of her formidable intelligence.

a. genuine..dominates
b. alert..contradicts
c. acute..precludes
d. bogus..presages
e. painstaking..succeeds

SPOILER: D

[amishera2007]

3. During periods of social and cultural stability, many art academies are so firmly controlled by----that all real creative work must be done by the----.
(A) dogmatists.. disenfranchised
(B) managers.. reactionaries
(C) reformers.. dissatisfied
(D) imposters.. academicians
(E) specialists.. elite

oa :

SPOILER: a

4. The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ____ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

A. circumlocution...literal
B. cliche ... lucid
C. euphemism... impenetrable
D. particularity... deliberate
E. subjectivity... enthralling

oa:

SPOILER: c

[meruchi]

20. D
21.d
22.a
23.e

[amishera2007]

I know the answers. I need the bridge. Please help here.

[aliciasheng]

Originally Posted by amishera2007

I know the answers. I need the bridge. Please help here.

my answers to the questions are b,d,e,d

What are the correct answers?

[aasho]

please explain 20

[sporty.arjun]

20. Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison.
(A) amateur's. .sensible
(B) expert's.. erratic
(C) investor's.. booming
(D) insider's.. predictable .
(E) artist's.. irrational

since the second part(after the colon) makes more sense read that...get the answer and relate it to the first part....

for the second blank...it is said that art world is so fickle that even the stock market seems ------....now we all know how unpredictable and fickle the stock market is BUT compared to the art world EVEN the stock market seems predictable..


for the first blank...we know that dealers are the ones who know a lot about art....but even their information (i.e. of an insider) seems insufficient due to the unpredictable nature of the art world...

[aasho]

thanx alot sporty arjun

[nanunem_d12]

3. During periods of social and cultural stability, many art academies are so firmly controlled by----that all real creative work must be done by the____.

(A) dogmatists.. disenfranchised
(B) managers.. reactionaries
(C) reformers.. dissatisfied
(D) imposters.. academicians
(E) specialists.. elite

@All.. By eliminating options for the second word I was able to reach (A), but can anyone tell us how will it be logically correct.
Thanks much..