SECTION 2
Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
VISUAL : SIGHT ::
A. predisposed : inclination
B. olfactory : smell
C. auditory : discernment
D. kinesthetic : sensation
E. gustatory : odor
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This division of science into two distinct cultural traditions, located in different types
A. influential… disregard
B. unlikely… join
C. suspect… benefit
D. propitious … separate from
E. pronounced … merge with
Modern anthropologists hold that referential symbolism—i.e. oral speech,
writing, national flags, and flag signaling-developed later than condensation
symbolism, a highly condensed form. of substitutive behavior. for direct
Line expression that allows the release of emotional tension. Most referential
(5) symbolisms derive from unconsciously evolved symbolisms saturated with
emotional quality that have gradually acquired a purely referential character as
the linked emotion dropped out of the behavior. Thus, shaking the fist at an
imaginary enemy-condensation symbolism-becomes a dissociated and thus
referential symbol for anger when no enemy is actually intended.
(10) Once referential symbolism is established as a mere by-product of behavior,
more conscious symbols of reference are evolved by the imitation in simplified
form. of the thing signified, as in the case of pictographic writing. Referential
symbolism may also be attained by mere social agreement, as when a numbered
check is arbitrarily assigned to a man's hat. The less primary and associational
(15) the symbolism, the more dissociated from its original context, the less
emotionalized it becomes, the more it takes on the character of true reference.
If the argument in the passage is valid, a condensation symbol of performing a gesture in the presence of a specific problem would be LEAST likely to become a referential symbol for expressing dismay when
A. the gesture's performance begins to lose its emotional saturation
B. people perform. the gesture in the absence of any specific problem
C. the gesture acquires a secondary emotional meaning
D. another gesture for expressing dismay comes into common usage
E. people never perform. the gesture except when confronted with the specific problem
In the______era of the Regency, she alone portended the Victorian ideal to come, which was
A. exalted
B. decadent
C. foregone
D. contentious
E. gingerly
The famous line "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" is from ______'s poem "Ode to
A. George Gordon, Lord Byron
B. Percy B.Shelley
C. Samuel T. Coleridge
D. John Keats