Time 30 minutes 38 Questions1. In the nineteenth century， novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of- adversity, whereas promoters and idealistscreated image of a land of infinite promise.（A） lurid a mundane（B） incredible an underplayed（C ） dispiriting an identical（D） intriguing a luxuriant（E） unremitting a compelling2. Honeybees tend to be more than earth bees：the former， unlike the latter， search for food together and signal their individual findings to one another.（A） insular（B） aggressive（C ） differentiated（D） mobile（E） social3. Joe spoke of superfluous and matters with exactly the same degree of intensity， as though for him serious issues mattered neither more nor less than did 。（A） vital trivialities（B） redundant superficialities（C ） important necessities（D） impractical outcomes（E） humdrum essentials4. The value of Davis sociological research is com- promised by his unscrupulous tendency to use materials in order to substantiate his own claims， while information that points to other possible conclusions.（A） haphazardly deploying（B） selectively disregarding（C ） cleverly weighing（D） modestly refuting（E） arbitrarily emphasizing5. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to volume and depth， they were able to replace the medieval convention of symbolic， two-dimensional space with the more illusion of actual space.（A） reverse conventional（B） portray abstract（C ） deny concrete（D） adumbrate fragmented（E） render realistic6. He had expected gratitude for his disclosure， but instead he encountered bordering on hostility.（A） patience（B） discretion（C ） openness（D） ineptitude（E） indifference7. The diplomat， selected for her demonstrated patience and skill in conducting such delicate negotiations，- to make a decision during the talks because anysudden commitment at that time would have been 。（A） resolved detrimental（B） refused apropos（C ） declined inopportune（D） struggled unconscionable（E） hesitated warranted8. CONDUCTOR： INSTRUMENTALIST：（A） director： actor（B） sculptor： painter（C ） choreographer： composer（D） virtuoso： amateur（E） poet： listener9. QUARRY： ROCK（A） silt： gravel（B） sky： rain（C ） cold： ice（D） mine： ore（E） jewel： diamond10. STICKLER： EXACTING：（A） charlatan： forthright（B） malcontent： solicitous（C ） misanthrope： expressive（D） defeatist： resigned（E） braggart： unassuming11. WALK： AMBLE：（A） dream： imagine（B） talk： chat（C ） swim： float（D） look： stare（E） speak： whisper12. JAZZ： MUSIC：（A） act： play（B） variety： vaudeville（C ） portraiture： painting（D） menu： restaurant（E） species： biology13. REPATRIATE： EMIGRATION：（A） reinstate： election（B） recall： impeachment（C ） appropriate： taxation（D） repeal： ratification（E） appeal： adjudication14. PLACEBO： INNOCUOUS：（A） antibioti20. It can be inferred from examples given in the last paragraph of the passage that which of the following was part of the new and crushing experience of industrialism （lines 46-47） for many members of the English working class in the nineteenth century？（A） Extortionate food prices（B） Geographical displacement（C ） Hazardous working conditions（D） Alienation from fellow workers（E） Dissolution of family ties 21. It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes that Mary Barton might have been an even better novel if Gaskell had（A） concentrated on the emotions of a single character（B） made no attempt to re-create experiences of which she had no firsthand knowledge（C ） made no attempt to reproduce working-class dialects（D） grown up in an industrial city（E） managed to transcend her position as an outsider22. Which of the following phrases could best be substituted for the phrase this aspect of Mary Barton in line 29 without changing the meaning of the passage as a whole？（A） the material details in an urban working-class environment（B） the influence of Mary Barton on lawrences early work（C ） the place of Mary Barton in the development of the English novel（D） the extent of the poverty and physical suffering among Englands industrial workers in the 1840s.（E） the portrayal of the particular feelings and responses of working-class characters23. The author of the passage describes Mary Barton as each of the following EXCEPT（A） insightful（B） meticulous（C ） vivid（D） poignant（E） lyricalAs of the late 1980s. neither theorists nor large- scale computer climate models could accurately predict whether cloud systems would help or hurt a warming globe. Some studies suggested that a four percent（5 ）increase in stratocumulus clouds over the ocean could compensate for a doubling in atmospheric carbon diox- ide， preventing a potentially disastrous planetwide temp- erature increase. On the other hand， an increase in cirrus clouds could increase global warming.（10） That clouds represented the weakest element in cli- mate models was illustrated by a study of fourteen such models. Comparing climate forecasts f