Directions (1-5): The following sentences each contain two blanks, indicating that something has been left out of the sentence. Each answer choice contains one word or a set of words. Select the word or set of words, that, when inserted in the blank(s), best fits the context of the sentence.
1. When people are happy, they tend to give __________ interpretations of events they witness: the eye of the beholder is __________ by the emotions of the beholder. (1)
- (1) charitable, colored
- (2) elaborate, disquieted
- (3) vague, sharpened
- (4) coherent, confused
- (5) reformed, settle
2. Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though __________, remains __________ for United States foreign policy. (2)
- (1) deepening, a challenge
- (2) diminishing, a problem
- (3) excessive, a dilemma
- (4) debilitating, an embarrassment
- (5) stocking, rewarding
3. The genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, apart from being misdescribed in the most sinister and __________ manner as ‘ethnic cleansing’, were also blamed, in further hand-washing rhetoric, on something dark and interior to __________ and perpetrators alike. (3)
- (1) innovative, communicator
- (2) enchanting, leaders
- (3) disingenuous, victims
- (4) exigent, exploiters
- (5) concise, parasite
4. As navigators, calendar makers, and other __________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced to__________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth. (4)
- (1) scrutinizers, believe
- (2) observers, agree
- (3) scrutinizers, suggest
- (4) observers, concede
- (5) scientists, congest
5. Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand, there is his __________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment, including __________. (4)
- (1) constitutional, weather
- (2) congenital, education
- (3) personal, climate
- (4) genetic, pedagogy
- (5) systematic, inheritance