1. A______acceptance of contemporary forms of social behavior has misled a few into believing that values in conflict with the present age are for all practical purposes______.
casual.. reliable
superficial.. trenchant
complacent.. superseded
cautious.. redemptive
plaintive.. redundant
2. Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently, his furniture designs asserted the______of human needs, and the furnitures form was______human use.
universality.. refined by
importance.. relegated to
rationale.. emphasized by
primacy.. determined by
variability.. reflected in
3. According to the newspaper critic, the performances at the talent contest last night______ from acceptable to excellent.
varied
receded
swept
averaged
declined
4. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one______ among millions; yet each outcome can be______ interpreted.
coincidence.. randomly
relationship. predictably
fact.. readily
happening.. uniquely
possibility.. rationally
5. Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current- -of Smiths valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ______of present-day economics.
disregard.. outgrowths
reaffirmation.. concerns
relevance.. precursors
acceptance.. byproducts
importance.. vestiges
6. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
reaction
an addition
an introduction
an alternative
a challenge
7. After thirty years of television, people have become speed watchers consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience______.
broadens
begins
varies
flags
clears
8. Agronomists are increasingly worried about desertification, the phenomenon that is turning many of the worlds ______fields and pastures into______wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.
fertile.. barren
productive.. blooming
arid.. thriving
poorest.. marginal
largest.. saturated
9. All______ biological traits fall into one of two categories: those giving their possessors greater______ the environment and those rendering them more independent of it.
widespread.. detachment from
beneficial.. control over
successful.. freedom from
neutral.. compatibility with
harmful.. advantage in
10. Although ______ in her own responses to the plays she reviewed, the theatre critic was, paradoxically, ______ those who would deny that a reviewer must have a single method of interpretation.
dogmatic.. impatient with
eclectic.. suspicious of
partisan.. hostile toward
capricious.. intrigued by
indulgent.. indebted to
casual.. reliable
superficial.. trenchant
complacent.. superseded
cautious.. redemptive
plaintive.. redundant
2. Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently, his furniture designs asserted the______of human needs, and the furnitures form was______human use.
universality.. refined by
importance.. relegated to
rationale.. emphasized by
primacy.. determined by
variability.. reflected in
3. According to the newspaper critic, the performances at the talent contest last night______ from acceptable to excellent.
varied
receded
swept
averaged
declined
4. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one______ among millions; yet each outcome can be______ interpreted.
coincidence.. randomly
relationship. predictably
fact.. readily
happening.. uniquely
possibility.. rationally
5. Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current- -of Smiths valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ______of present-day economics.
disregard.. outgrowths
reaffirmation.. concerns
relevance.. precursors
acceptance.. byproducts
importance.. vestiges
6. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
reaction
an addition
an introduction
an alternative
a challenge
7. After thirty years of television, people have become speed watchers consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience______.
broadens
begins
varies
flags
clears
8. Agronomists are increasingly worried about desertification, the phenomenon that is turning many of the worlds ______fields and pastures into______wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.
fertile.. barren
productive.. blooming
arid.. thriving
poorest.. marginal
largest.. saturated
9. All______ biological traits fall into one of two categories: those giving their possessors greater______ the environment and those rendering them more independent of it.
widespread.. detachment from
beneficial.. control over
successful.. freedom from
neutral.. compatibility with
harmful.. advantage in
10. Although ______ in her own responses to the plays she reviewed, the theatre critic was, paradoxically, ______ those who would deny that a reviewer must have a single method of interpretation.
dogmatic.. impatient with
eclectic.. suspicious of
partisan.. hostile toward
capricious.. intrigued by
indulgent.. indebted to
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