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1. The corporation expects only ------- increase in sales next year despite a yearlong effort to revive its retailing business.
(A) unquestionable
(B) sequential
(C) modest
(D) exaggerated
(E) groundless
2. No computer system is immune to a virus, a particularly malicious program that is designed to ------- and electronically ------- the disks on which data are stored.
(A) prepare. .improve
(B) restore. .disable
(C) infect. .damage
(D) preserve. .secure
(E) invade. .repair
3. Recent research indicates that a system of particles which has apparently decayed to randomness from ------- state can be returned to that state: thus the system exhibits a kind of memory of its ------- condition.
(A) an equilibrium. .lesser
(B) an ordered. .earlier
(C) an unusual. .settled
(D) a chaotic. .last
(E) a higher. .present
4. A number of writers who once greatly -------the literary critic have recently recanted, substituting ------- for their former criticism.
(A) lauded. .censure
(B) influence. .analysis
(C) simulated. .ambivalence
(D) disparaged. .approbation
(E) honored. .adulation
5. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ------- that our belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined.
(A) complex
(B) distant
(C) vivid
(D) mysterious
(E) mundane
6. Individual freedom of thought should be ------- more absolutely than individual freedom of action, given that the latter, though also desirable, must be ------- the limits imposed by the rights and freedom of others.
(A) protected. .subject to
(B) assessed. .measured by
(C) valued. .superior to
(D) exercised. .indifferent to
(E) curtailed. .conscious of
7. Their ------- was expressed in quotidian behavior: they worshipped regularly, ------- all the regenerative processes of nature respect, and even awe.
(A) selflessness. .reserving to
(B) moderation. .extending to
(C) reverence. .exacting from
(D) piety. .according
(E) serenity. .refusing
Answers :1. C 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. A 7. D
<문제 2>
1. My family often found others laughable, but I learned quite early to be ------- while people were present, laughing only later at what was funny and mocking what to us seemed -------.
(A) polite. .bizarre
(B) impatient. .unfortunate
(C) facetious. .enviable
(D) wistful. .extraordinary
(E) superficial. .deplorable
2. The technical know-how, if not the political -------, appears already at hand to feed the world’ s exploding population and so to ------- at least the ancient scourges of malnutrition and famine.
(A) will. .weaken
(B) expertise. .articulate
(C) doubt. .banish
(D) power. .denounce
(E) commitment. .eradicate
3. In small farming communities, accident victims rarely sue or demand compensation: transforming a personal injury into a ------- someone else is viewed as an attempt to ------- responsibility for one's own actions.
(A) conspiracy against. .assume
(B) claim against. .elude
(C) boon for. .minimize
(D) distinction for. .shift
(E) trauma for. .proclaim
4. Dominant interests often benefit most from ------- of governmental interference in business, since they are able to take care of themselves if left alone.
(A) intensification
(B) authorization
(C) centralization
(D) improvisation
(E) elimination
5. The "impostor syndrome" often afflicts those who fear that true self-disclosure will lower them in others' esteem: rightly handled, however, ------- may actually ------- one's standing.
(A) willfulness. .consolidate
(B) imposture. .undermine
(C) affectation. .jeopardize
(D) candor. .enhance
(E) mimicry. .efface
6. The pungent verbal give-and-take among the characters makes the novel ------- reading, and this very ------- suggests to me that some of the opinions voiced may be the author's.
(A) disturbing. .flatness
(B) tedious. .inactiveness
(C) lively. .spiritedness
(D) necessary. .steadiness
(E) rewarding. .frivolousness
7. The fortress like facade of the Museum of Cartoon Art seems calculated to remind visitors that the comic strip is an art form that has often been ------- by critics.
(A) charmed
(B) assailed
(C) unnoticed
(D) exhilarated
(E) overwhelmed
Answers :1. A 2. E 3. B 4. E 5. D 6. C 7. B
<문제3>
1. According to the newspaper critic, the performances at the talent contest last night ------- from acceptable to excellent.
(A) varied
(B) receded
(C) swept
(D) averaged
(E) declined
2. For more than a century, geologists have felt comfortable with the idea that geological processes, although very -------, are also ------- and so are capable of shaping the Earth, given enough time.
(A) minute. .sporadic
(B) slow. .steady
(C) complex. .discernible
(D) unpredictable. .constant
(E) ponderous. .intermittent
3. While not ------- with the colorfully obvious forms of life that are found in a tropical rain forest, the desert is ------- to a surprisingly large number of species.
(A) brimming. .foreign
(B) endowed. .detrimental
(C) imbued. .hostile
(D) teeming. .host
(E) confronted. .home
4. Speakers and listeners are often at odds: language that is easy for the receiver to understand is often difficult to -------, and that which is easily formulated can be hard to -------.
(A) estimate. .confirm
(B) transmit. .defend
(C) produce. .comprehend
(D) suppress. .ignore
(E) remember. .forget
5. The current demand for quality in the schools seems to ask not for the development of information and active citizens, but for disciplined and productive workers with abilities that contribute to civic life only -------, if at all.
(A) indirectly
(B) politically
(C) intellectually
(D) sensibly
(E) sequentially
6. Because of its lack of theaters, the city came, ironically, to be viewed as an ------- theater town, and that reputation led entrepreneurs to believe that it would be ------- to build new theaters there.
(A) unprofitable. .risky
(B) untapped. .pointless
(C) unappreciated. .difficult
(D) unlikely. .appropriate
(E) unimpressed. .shrewd
7. He felt it would be -------, in view of the intense ------- that would likely follow, to make the sacrifice required in order to gain such little advantage.
(A) charitable. .growth
(B) welcomed. .prejudice
(C) futile. .encouragement
(D) academic. .acclaim
(E) unrealistic. .turmoil
Answers : 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. E 6. A 7. E