No-4-2  SECTION 1

    1. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it----some problems, it also produced new----.

    (A) clarified.. data

    (B) eased.. interpretations

    (C) resolved.. complications

    (D) caused.. hypotheses

    (E) revealed.. inconsistencies

    2. During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, ----both the strength to work and many of the specific skills they once possessed.

    (A) regaining (B) denying (C) pursuing

    (D) insuring  (E) losing

    3. The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of----facts is----flawed.

    (A) demographic.. intrinsically

    (B) ecological.. marginally

    (C) cultural.. substantively

    (D) psychological.. philosophically

    (E) political.. demonstratively

    4. It is puzzling to observe that Jones's novel has recently been criticized for its----structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious----is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework.

    (A) attention to.. preoccupation

    (B) speculation about.. characteristic

    (C) parody of.. disparity

    (D) violation of.. contradiction

    (E) lack of.. flaw

    5. It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be----.

    (A) predictable (B) unexpected

    (C) admirable  (D) explicit (E) confusing

    6. The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received---- by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with----orders of experience.

    (A) quietly.. significant

    (B) enthusiastically.. shifting

    (C) passively.. unusual

    (D) sympathetically.. distinct

    (E) contentiously.. realistic