In classical literature, love was depicted not as an ennobling passion but as an unfortunate _______ that disabled judgment, almost a kind of _______.
Answer(s): A
If love were thought of as a malady (difficulty or problem) that “disables judgment” (confuses one’s brain), then the word insanity might be an apt description.
One aim of educational technology should be to _______ instruction more precisely to students’ individual needs, since vast differences in the ways students learn are _______ when they are taught the same thing.
The first part of the sentence suggests that instructional methods need to be modified in some way to alleviate a problem. The words adjust and adapt (choices A and C) both make sense here. The second part of the sentence suggests that the problem is that, when students are taught in the same way, their individual needs are not adequately accounted for. In other words, these needs are overlooked, at least to some extent. Choice A. is the only choice that makes sense for both blanks.
Even detractors who warn of its potential for abuse agree that genetic engineering, if used _______, can reduce the incidence of the sort of physical deformities that any society would want to eliminate.
Answer(s): D
The missing word must contrast with the notion of abuse of genetic engineering, while at the same time be consistent with the desirable goal of reducing the incidence of deformities. Only choice D. accomplishes both. To use the technology discriminately would be to conscientiously apply it only toward certain ends (such as reducing deformities) and not toward others (such as creating a master race that dominates others).
It is clearly in the public’s best interest for news agencies to _______ their journalist employees _______ information tantamount to hearsay through independent scrutiny.
Answer(s): B
Hearsay (second-hand information) tends to be unreliable. So it makes sense that, acting in the public’s best interest, news agencies should admonish (warn or instruct sternly) their journalists to scrutinize hearsay information to confirm its accuracy.
It is often said that those most firmly committed to an idea are also most critical of it. Yet, could anyone honestly defend this (i)_______? Consider, for instance, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who in the late nineteenth century paved the way for the women’s rights movement through their fervent advocacy. Would it not be (ii)_______ that Stanton and Anthony were at the same time highly (ii)_______ of the notion that women deserve equal rights under the law?
The first sentence describes an aphorism, which means “a well-known saying or adage.” Thus, the phrase age-old aphorism fits nicely in blank (i). The idea of the passage as a whole is that the “adage” mentioned in the first sentence is historically indefensible. To support this idea, the author seeks to point out that it would be completely and obviously wrong—in other words, patently absurd to aver (assert) that America’s women’s rights pioneers could possibly be critical of—or suspicious of—the idea that women deserve equal rights.
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