Exercise 19
1. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only ______
government records to see______ evidence of the failure of such opinions in
many fields.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A distribute | D questionable |
B consult | E strong |
C retain | F circumstantial |
2. Noting that few employees showed any______for complying with the
corporations new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that
acceptance of the regulations would be______, at best.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A enthusiasm | D grudging |
B indifference | E indeterminate |
C rectitude | F unavoidable |
3. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and
so______Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared
after nearly two decades in______in the Western Hemisphere.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A decimated | D abeyance |
B terrorized | E secret |
C corrupted | F quarantine |
4. Nature’s energy efficiency often______human technology: despite the
intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only
recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose
efficiency______ the firefly’s system.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A admire | D elusive |
B dismiss | E relevant |
C adapt | F unconventional |
5. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can______the ancient
puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more______than we
had thought.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A candid | D soliciting |
B idiosyncratic | E altering |
C reticent | F eschewing |
6. Though extremely______about his own plans, the man allowed his
associates no such privacy and was constantly______information about what
they intended to do next.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A outstrips | D stimulates |
B inhibits | E rivals |
C determines | F reproduce |
7. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ______their efforts to
build a progressive party than the______of the progressives already elected
to the legislature.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A sustained | D reasons |
B restricted | E substitutes |
C hampered | F justifications |
8. No longer______by the belief that the world around us was expressly
designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual______for that
lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A an accepted | D anachronism to |
B an underground | E concern about |
C an unknown | F defiance against |
9. Just as astrology was for centuries______faith, countering the strength of
established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of______ the
professional sciences.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A benefit from | D success |
B obstacle to | E reputation |
C praise for | F resistance |
10. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so
modified and enlarged that the______design is no longer______.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A embellished | D discernible |
B initial | E applicable |
C appropriate | F attractive |
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