1. James Boswell`s Life of Samuel Johnson is generally thought to have established Boswell as the first great modern biographer;yet the claim of _____ could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard Savage.
Apartisanship
Bomniscience
Cprecedence
Dopportunism
Eperseverance
2. Most spacecraft are still at little risk of collision with space debris during their operational lifetimes, but given the numbers of new satellites launched each year,the orbital environment in the future is likely to be less _____.
- crowded
- invulnerable
- protected
- polluted
- benign
3. The unironic representation of objects from everyday life is (i) _____ serious American art of the twentieth century: "high" artist ceded the straightforward depiction of the (ii) _____ to illustrators, advertisers, and packaging designers.
- Blank(i)
- missing from
- valued in
- crucial to
- Blank(ii)
- beautiful
- commonplace
- complex
4. Television promotes (i) _____ of emotion in viewer through an unnatural evocation,every five minutes,of different and (ii) _____feelings.
- Blank(i)
- a withdrawal
- an obscuring
- a discontinuity
- Blank(ii)
- incompatible
- sympathetic
- interminable
5. While the cerulean warbler`s status may be particularly (i) _____, it is just one of the many species of migrant birds whose numbers have been (ii) _____for years. Increasingly, biologists investigating the causes of these (iii) ______are focusing on habitat loss in the Tropics,where the birds spend the winter.
- Blank(i)
- precarious
- secure
- representative
- Blank(ii)
- underreported
- falling
- copious
- Blank(iii)
- pairings
- migrations
- declines
6. The recent publication of the painter Rober Motherwell`s substantial body of writing, as well as writings by fellow Expressionist Barnett Newman, (i) _____Ann Gibson`s assertion that the Abstract Expressionists were reluctant to (ii) ______ issues of artistic meaning in their work and suggests that this supposed reticence was perhaps more artistic (iii) _____than historical fact.
- Blank(i)
- substantiates
- undermines
- overlooks
- Blank(ii)
- forgo
- articulate
- conceal
- Blank(iii)
- conscience
- focus
- posturing
7. The spy`s repeated bungling was,above all else, _____ those who wished to thwart her efforts, since it was so unpredictable as to obscure any pattern that might otherwise lead to capture.
8. Female video artists` rise to prominence over the past 30 years has _____ the ascent of video as an art form:it is only within the past three decades that video art has attained its current,respected status.
9. Although the film is rightly judged imperfect by most of today`s critics, the films being created today are _____ it, since its release in 1940 provoked sufficient critical discussion to enhance the intellectual respectability of cinema considerably.
10. The detective`s conviction that there were few inept crimes in her district led her to impute some degree of _____ to every suspect she studied.
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