Where Linda has her______charm, and Robert has sense of verve and suavity, Polly has only
A. genteel… uncertainty
B. infectious … pulchritude
C. idolatrous… pluck
D. obsequious … vivacity
E. insufferable … vapidity
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A fool, especially if he has the misfortune of knowing anything, should______it as well as
A. conceal
B. invalidate
C. protect
D. inspect
E. improve
Economics can render service in the area of exchange, but its tools find less
purpose when applied to paradigms dominated by alternative models of
transactions and social relationships. In small groups gift-giving is substituted
Line for the role of exchange, which entails obligation: people receiving gifts are
(5) expected to reciprocate in the future and this reciprocity binds small groups
together, whereas exchange rarely does so. Two people exchange only when
both benefit, neither incurring a social obligation as a result, and where social
obligations exist, exchange may not work well. Exchange nevertheless allows
for extremely complex interactions among strangers: when employing a
(10) product, a consumer benefits from the efforts of hundreds of anonymous people
who have contributed to that commodity. Such analysis also has its limits in the
case of an area such as government, for economics seeks regularities in social
life, which are more likely to occur when no one individual has an appreciable
effect on the group.
Which of the following might serve as the most appropriate title for the passage?
A. Small Groups and Governments, A Comparison of Two Economic Methods
B. Social Obligation and the Consumer: A Case Study
C. Regular vs. Irregular Systems in Economics
D. The Comparative Strength of Economics in Various Areas
E. The Triumph of Analysis in Economic Theory
According to the passage, which of the following is true concerning the ability to create
A. The ability stems from the anatomical center of human's visual brain, whose location has yet to be identified.
B. The ability steadily develops in humans with the gradual acquisition of knowledge.
C. The ability is best categorized as an innate, and therefore unlearned, ability that is rarely improved on over time.
D. The ability to create abstractions is predicated on an enslavement to the particulars of those abstractions.
E. The ability most likely has developed as a response to the limitations of the human memory.
SECTION 1
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Hardly convincing was his______near the end of the play, where the swordplay, though scripted, took on a thoroughly amateurish aspect.
A. ploy
B. feint
C. ad-lib
D. error
E. flourish