91. Although it seems_________ that there would be a greater risk of serious automobile accidents in densely populated areas, such accidents are more likely to occur in sparsely populated regions.
(A) paradoxical
(B) axiomatic
(C) anomalous
(D) irrelevant
(E) portentous
92. If the theory is self-evidently true, as its proponents assert, then why does _________ it still exist among well-informed people?
(A) support for
(B) excitement about
(C) regret for
(D) resignation about
(E) opposition to
93. Although the_________ of cases of measles has_________, researchers fear that eradication of the disease, once believed to be imminent, may not come soon.
(A) occurrence.. continued
(B) incidence.. declined
(C) prediction.. resumed
(D) number.. increased
(E) study.. begun
94. Nothing_________ his irresponsibility better than his_________ delay in sending us the items he promised weeks ago.
(A) justifies.. conspicuous
(B) characterizes.. timely
(C) epitomizes.. unnecessary
(D) reveals.. conscientious
(E) conceals.. inexplicable
95. The author did not see the_________ inherent in her scathing criticism of a writing style so similar to her own.
(A) disinterest
(B) incongruity
(C) pessimism
(D) compliment
(E) symbolism
96. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the transition from medieval _______ experience to modern individualism, we confront an electronic technology that seems likely to reverse the trend, rendering individualism obsolete and interdependence
mandatory.
(A) literary
(B) intuitive
(C) corporate
(D) heroic
(E) spiritual
97. Our biological uniqueness requires that the effects of a substance must be verified by _________ experiments, even after thousands of tests of the effects of that
substance on animals.
(A) controlled
(B) random
(C) replicated
(D) human
(E) evolutionary
98. Today water is more_________ in landscape architecture than ever before, because technological advances have made it easy, in some instances even_________to install water features in public places.
(A) conspicuous.. prohibitive
(B) sporadic.. effortless
(C) indispensable.. intricate
(D) ubiquitous.. obligatory
(E) controversial.. unnecessary
99. While many Russian composers of the nineteenth century contributed to an emerging national style, other composers did not_________ idiomatic Russian musical elements,_________ instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western
European Romanticism.
(A) utilize ..rejecting
(B) incorporate.. preferring
(C) exclude.. avoiding
(D) repudiate.. expanding
(E) esteem.. disdaining
100. Because the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder was obsessed with his ________ perfection, he was rarely_________ a painting, creating endless variations of a scene on one canvas, one on top of another.
(A) quest for.. satisfied with
(B) insistence on .. displeased with
(C) contempt for.. disconcerted by
(D) alienation from.. immersed in
(E) need for.. concerned with