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　　Section 55

　　1. It was a war the queen and her more prudent counselors wished to ________ if they could and were determined in any event to ________ as long as possible.

　　(A) provoke.. delay

　　(B) denounce.. deny

　　(C) instigate.. conceal

　　(D) curtail.. promote

　　(E) avoid.. postpone

　　2. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data accumulated are not directly ________ to environmental questions; thus a new program of research specifically addressing such questions is ________.

　　(A) analogous.. promising

　　(B) transferable.. contradictory

　　(C) antithetical.. unremarkable

　　(D) applicable.. warranted

　　(E) pertinent.. unnecessary

　　3. Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their ________ environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being ________ by massive infusions of new information from everywhere.

　　(A) harsh.. unconfirmed

　　(B) surrounding.. upheld

　　(C) immediate.. transformed

　　(D) natural.. mechanized

　　(E) limited.. superseded

　　4. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having ________ the conflicting elements of her life.

　　(A) affirmed

　　(B) highlighted

　　(C) reconciled

　　(D) confined

　　(E) identified

　　5. In their preface, the collection's editors plead that certain of the important articles they ________ were published too recently for inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this ________ is not valid.

　　(A) discussed.. replacement

　　(B) omitted.. excuse

　　(C) revised.. clarification

　　(D) disparaged.. justification

　　(E) ignored.. endorsement

　　6. The labor union and the company's management, despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearly every issue, have nevertheless reached an unexpectedly ________, albeit still tentative, agreement on next year's contract.

　　(A) swift

　　(B) onerous

　　(C) hesitant

　　(D) reluctant

　　(E) conclusive

　　7. In response to the follies of today's commercial and political worlds, the author does not ________ inflamed indignation, but rather ________ the detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.

　　(A) display.. rails at

　　(B) rely on.. avoids

　　(C) suppress.. clings to

　　(D) express.. affects

　　(E) resort to.. spurns

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