SECTION ONE
SECTION ONE
1. Seeking to_________ what people view and read by determining what art and literature should be available, censorship laws directly_________ free expression.
(A) govern.. liberate
(B) juxtapose .. prescribe
(C) defer.. nullify
(D) control.. prohibit
(E) balance .. promote
2. Because little rain falls in the district during summer, municipalities are necessarily_________ to _________ water from winter storms.
(A) ready.. squander
(B) reluctant.. retain
(C) free.. absorb
(D) careful.. store
(E) unwilling .. conserve
3. Excessive secrecy tends to_________ excessive curiosity and thus serves to_________ the very impulses against which it guards.
(A) inhibit.. protect
(B) disguise.. supplant
(C) satisfy.. limit
(D) compel.. deride
(E) invite .. provoke
4. Toni Cade Bambara's novels are engrossing because the protagonists, in striving to achieve goals, are not simply_________ characters.
(A) passive (B) tangible (C) abandoned (D) autonomous (E) redundant
5. Myra laughed exuberantly and embraced her friends repeatedly, so_________ was she about having been selected.
(A) ambivalent (B) quizzical (C) euphoric (D) jaded (E) exacting
6. The new policy has been called a quiet revolution because, though introduced without_________, it is already producing_________ changes.
(A) warning .. specious
(B) fanfare .. momentous
(C) concealment. . transient
(D) hesitation . . ostensible
(E) debate.. negligible
7. Artists who are described as_________ are the first to experiment with new forms or concepts.
(A) aesthetic (B) partisan (C) decorous (D) cerebral (E) avant-garde
8. Once his integrity had been_________, the mayoral candidate was quick both to_________ these attacks and to issue counterattacks.
(A) debunked .. buttress
(B) restored .. recommence
(C) revoked .. relinquish
(D) impugned .. repudiate
(E) vitiated.. avoid
9.When two chemical compounds are combined, a_________ effect can be achieved; the resulting combination can be more potent than either of the individual compounds alone.
(A) synergistic (B) naturalistic (C) competitive (D) retroactive (E) neutralizing