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Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

31. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look -they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the - of natural beauty and human glory.
    1. great - immutability
    2. joyful - mortality
    3. conventional - wildness
    4. cheerful - transitoriness
    5. colorful - abstractness.

    Answer: D

32. Despite the - of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for - the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
    1. pedantry - reinstating
    2. enthusiasm - symbolizing
    3. skepticism - deciphering
    4. antipathy - involving
    5. discernment - evaluating.

    Answer: C

33. If duty is the natural - of one's the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
    1. outgrowth - control over
    2. arbiter - responsibility for
    3. correlate - understanding of
    4. determinant - involvement in
    5. mitigant - preoccupation with .

    Answer: A

34. No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the - with which he sustained the cruelest coffliction.
    1. guide
    2. assent
    3. reverence
    4. fortitude
    5. concern

    Answer: D

35. The hostess attempted to - a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people together in -
    1. expand - fealty
    2. present - collusion
    3. simulate - conflict
    4. introduce - cacophony
    5. contrive - matrimony

    Answer: E

36. 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.
    1. archetypally
    2. perennially
    3. disturbingly
    4. uniquely
    5. cautiously

    Answer: D

37. Even though in today's Soviet union 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.
    1. adversaries of - inclination
    2. traditionalists among - incentive
    3. practitioners among - opportunity
    4. leaders of - latitude
    5. dissidents within -obligation

    Answer: D

38. Unlike the Shakespearean plays, The ''closet dramas'' of the nineteenth century were meant to be - rather than -
    1. seen - acted
    2. read - acted
    3. produced - acted
    4. quiet - loud
    5. sophisticated - urbane

    Answer: B

39. The little - known but rapidly expanding use of computers in mapmaking is technologically similar to the more - uses in designing everything from bolts to satellites.
    1. ingenuous
    2. recent
    3. secure
    4. publicized
    5. successful

    Answer: D

40. Although his out numbered troops fought bravely, the general felt he had no choice but to - defeat and - a retreat.
    1. oversee - reject
    2. acknowledge - order
    3. hasten - suggest
    4. seek - try
    5. overcome - request

    Answer: B