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Section 31
1. Agronomists are increasingly worried about "desertification," the phenomenon that is turning many of the world's ________ fields and pastures into ________ wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.
(A) fertile.. barren
(B) productive.. blooming
(C) arid.. thriving
(D) poorest.. marginal
(E) largest.. saturated
2. Old beliefs die hard: even when jobs became ________ , the long-standing fear that unemployment could return at a moment's notice ________ .
(A) vacant.. perished
(B) easier.. changed
(C) plentiful.. persisted
(D) protected.. subsided
(E) available.. receded
3. Intellectual ________ and flight from boredom have caused him to rush pell-mell into situations that less ________ spirits might hesitate to approach.
(A) restlessness.. adventurous
(B) agitation.. passive
(C) resilience.. quiescent
(D) tranquility.. versatile
(E) curiosity.. lethargic
4. Science advances in ________ spiral in that each new conceptual scheme ________ that phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.
(A) a discontinuous.. decries
(B) a repetitive.. vitiates
(C) a widening.. embraces
(D) an anomalous.. captures
(E) an explosive.. questions
5. Politeness is not a ________ attribute of human behavior, but rather a central virtue, one whose very existence is increasingly being ________ by the faddish requirement to "speak one's mind."
(A) superficial.. threatened
(B) pervasive.. undercut
(C) worthless.. forestalled
(D) precious.. repudiated
(E) trivial.. affected
6. The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for, hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was ________ by the perspective.
(A) improved
(B) aggrandized
(C) embellished
(D) jeopardized
(E) diminished
7. Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain ________ .
(A) arbitrary
(B) estimable
(C) orthodox
(D) unspoken
(E) equivocal
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