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　　Section 35

　　1. The availability of oxygen is an essential ________ for animal life, while carbon dioxide is equally ________ for plant life.

　　(A) choice.. optional

　　(B) duplication.. selective

　　(C) conversion.. exchangeable

　　(D) condition.. necessary

　　(E) luxury.. harmful

　　2. Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to ________ ; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight ________ what is hidden.

　　(A) condemn.. distorts

　　(B) monitor.. signals

　　(C) repress.. dramatizes

　　(D) obviate.. fosters

　　(E) divulge.. conceals

　　3. After thirty years of television, people have become "speed watchers"; consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience ________ .

　　(A) broadens

　　(B) begins

　　(C) varies

　　(D) flags

　　(E) clears

　　4. Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively riskfree, ________ almost nothing seems worth regulating.

　　(A) yet

　　(B) since

　　(C) so

　　(D) even though

　　(E) as long as

　　5. Ironically, Carver's precision in sketching lives on the edge of despair ensures that his stories will sometimes be read too narrowly, much as Dickens' social-reformer role once caused his broader concerns to be ________ .

　　(A) ignored

　　(B) reinforced

　　(C) contradicted

　　(D) diminished

　　(E) diversified

　　6. The demise of the rigorous academic curriculum in high school resulted, in part, from the progressive rhetoric that ________ the study of subjects previously thought ________ as part of school learning.

　　(A) advocated.. necessary

　　(B) enhanced.. indispensable

　　(C) restricted.. impractical

　　(D) undermined.. popular

　　(E) sanctioned.. inappropriate

　　7. While some see in practical jokes a wish for mastery in miniature over a world that seems very ________ , others believe that the jokes' purpose is to disrupt, by reducing all transactions to ________ .

　　(A) dubious.. confusion

　　(B) disorderly.. symmetry

　　(C) harmonious.. dissonance

　　(D) unruly.. chaos

　　(E) turbulent.. uniformity

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