Time -30 minutes
38 Questions
1. In the nineteenth century， novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of—— adversity， whereas promoters and idealists created —— image of a land of infinite promise.
(A) lurid…… a mundane
(B) incredible…… an underplayed
(C) dispiriting…… an identical
(D) intriguing…… a luxuriant
(E) unremitting…… a compelling
2. Honeybees tend to be more —— than earth bees： the former， unlike the latter， search for food together and signal their individual findings to one another.
(A) insular
(B) ag美国GREssive
(C) differentiated
(D) mobile
(E) social
3. Joe spoke of superfluous and —— matters with exactly the same de美国GREe of intensity， as though for him serious issues mattered neither more nor less than did ——。
(A) vital…… trivialities
(B) redundant…… superficialities
(C) important…… necessities
(D) impractical…… outcomes
(E) humdrum…… essentials
4. The value of Davis' sociological research is com- promised by his unscrupulous tendency to use materials—— in order to substantiate his own claims， while —— information that points to other possible conclusions.
(A) haphazardly…… deploying
(B) selectively…… disregarding
(C) cleverly…… weighing
(D) modestly…… refuting