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　　Section 16

　　1. As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than ________ , an education in agriculture was ________ .

　　(A) instruction.. vital

　　(B) effort.. difficult

　　(C) learning.. useless

　　(D) science.. intellectual

　　(E) luck.. senseless

　　2. In spite of the ________ nature of Scotland's terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe ________ .

　　(A) rocky.. weather

　　(B) mountainous.. grades

　　(C) uncharted.. flooding

　　(D) unpredictable.. damage

　　(E) landlocked.. slipperiness

　　3. Walpole's art collection was huge and fascinating, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who ________ him as, at best, ________ .

　　(A) dismissed.. insignificant

　　(B) judged.. worthwhile

　　(C) revered.. talented

　　(D) reviled.. meager

　　(E) taunted.. dangerous

　　4. Since the author frequently ________ other scholars, his objection to disputes is not only irrelevant but also ________ .

　　(A) supports.. overbearing

　　(B) provokes.. frightening

　　(C) quotes.. curious

　　(D) ignores.. peevish

　　(E) attacks.. surprising

　　5. Longdale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts ________ a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be ________ only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.

　　(A) manufacture.. accomplished

　　(B) reveal.. repeated

　　(C) exhibit.. determined

　　(D) share.. explained

　　(E) maintain.. contradicted

　　6. Until the current warming trend exceeds the range of normal climatic fluctuations, there will be, among scientists, considerable ________ the possibility that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 can cause long-term warming effects.

　　(A) interest in

　　(B) uncertainty about

　　(C) enthusiasm for

　　(D) worry about

　　(E) experimentation on

　　7. Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the ________ of society, the conventionality of academe.

　　(A) ethos

　　(B) idealism

　　(C) romance

　　(D) paradoxes

　　(E) commonplaces

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