The biography depicts the well known actress as _______ but ruthless, _______ the popular notion that she attained stardom through a series of guileful maneuvers.
Answer(s): E
Guileful means “cunning or wily.” It makes sense that someone who is “intelligent but ruthless” would engage in “guileful maneuvers” in order to succeed, and the word corroborating (which means “helping to confirm or verify”) sets up the appropriate match between the biography’s account and the popular notion.
Quantitative data such as blood pressure, cholesterol level, and body weight are useful objective indicators of physical health. Yet, quantitative measurement and logic (i)_______ when it comes to determining the extent of a person’s physical well-being. Levels of physical discomfort and pain, the most reliable indicators of physical well-being, cannot be quantified; (ii)_______, our emotional state and psychological well-being, which can have a profound impact on our physical health, defy objective measurement altogether.
Answer(s): A
The idea of the passage is that quantitative data are useful but insufficient (that is, they hardly suffice) to determine the extent of a person’s
Proponents of urban development oppose the popular notion that socialpsychological mechanisms leading to criminal and other antisocial activity are more likely to _______ if _______ such as anonymity and population density are found.
Proponents of urban development would oppose the idea that urban development fosters crime. So the “mechanism” referred to in the sentence might either function, react, or emerge, but not disappear or fail. The sentence cites anonymity and population density as examples of the second missing word. It makes no sense to characterize these examples either as cities or criminals, and of the two remaining choices, choice B. is weaker than choice A. on two counts. First, the sentence as a whole does not strongly support the use of the word react; what the mechanisms might react to is neither stated nor inferred in the sentence. Second, while a trait is properly referred to as “found,” a factor is not (factors typically “come into play”). So choice B. makes for an improper idiomatic expression.
The legends of any tribe serve to explain, and even embody, its _______; by examining a people’s most popular _______, one can determine the things they most deeply cherish.
The two parts of the sentence paraphrase the same idea. Therefore, the first blank should correspond to the idea of “the things they most deeply cherish” in the second half of the sentence, while the second blank should correspond to “myths.” The word pair values and stories works well.
The recent birth of septuplets has spawned many newspaper articles presenting _______ accounts of medical problems associated with multiple births, _______ the initial heartwarming stories about the septuplets that dominated the press.
Answer(s): D
The best word for the second blank must suggest how the articles about “medical problems” related to the “heartwarming stories” that first appeared. It makes sense that sobering accounts would counterbalance heartwarming stores.
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