1. Because its average annual rainfall is only about four inches, one of the major tasks faced by the country has been to find ----sources of water.

    (A) discontinuous

    (B) natural

    (C) supplementary

    (D) pervasive

    (E) initial

    2. Both television commercials and programs present ---- view of the material world, one which promotes a standard of living that most of us can probably not attain.

    (A) an unrealistic

    (B) an imprudent

    (C) a standardized

    (D) a perplexing

    (E) a banal

    3. Although it is unusual to denounce museum- goers for not painting, it is quite common, even for those. who are unenthusiastic about sports, to criticize---- for athletic----.

    (A) artists.. ignorance

    (B) spectators.. inactivity

    (C) athletes.. snobbery

    (D) scholars.. apathy

    (E) commentators.. partiality

    4. Because the order in which the parts of speech appear in the sentences of a given language is decided merely by custom, it is---- to maintain that every departure from that order constitutes a ----of a natural law.

    (A) traditional.. transformation

    (B) conventional.. transgression

    (C) necessary.. prototype

    (D) unjustifiable.. violation

    (E) unreasonable.. formulation