1. Her lecture gave a sense of how empty the universe is, in spite of the ---- number of stars within it.

    (A) diminishing

    (B) varying

    (C) enormous

    (D) unusual

    (E) limited

    2. The wilderness is ---- in that it permits people to face an important reality-one that demands much of them as thinking, reacting, working individuals, not ---- as human machines.

    (A) foreign.. necessarily

    (B) intangible.. physically

    (C) stimulating.. creatively

    (D) discouraging.. neutrally

    (E) valuable.. merely

    3. Ambrose Blerce's biographers agree that the Civil War was the central experience of his life, the event to which be constantly returned and the --- that brought some ---- to the hitherto random pattern of his youth.

    (A) ordeal.. coherence

    (B) interruption.. continuity

    (C) climax.. confusion

    (D) escape.. diversion

    (E) hiatus.. rigidity

    4. The constitutional guarantee or tree speech may have been aimed at protecting native speakers of English from censorship, but it is not a great

---- to interpret it as protecting the right to

    express oneself in any natural language or dialect.

    (A) enigma

    (B) extension

    (C) sacrifice

    (D) condemnation

    (E) attenuation