1. The corporation expects only_____increases in sales next year despite a
yearlong effort to receive its retailingbusiness.
2. Thomas Paine, whose political writing wasoften flamboyant, was in private
life a surprisingly _____man: he lived inrented rooms, ate little, and wore drab
3. Exposure to low-intensity gamma radiationslows the rate of growth of the
spoilage microorganisms in food in much thesame way that the low heat used in
pasteurization _____ the spoilage action ofthe microorganisms in milk.
4. Roman historians who study the period 30B.C. to A.D. 180 can _____ the
“Augustan peace” only by failing to recognizethat this peace in many respects
5. Under ethical guideline recently adoptedby the National Institutes of Health,
human genes are to be manipulated only tocorrect disease for which _____
treatments are unsatisfactory.
6. In contrast to the substantial muscularactivity required for inhalation,
exhalation is usually a _____ process.
7. The labor union and the company’smanagement, despite their long history of
unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearlyevery issue, have nevertheless
reached an unexpectedly _____, albeit stilltentative, agreement on next year’s
8. Word order in a sentence was much freer inold French than it is in French
today, this _____disappeared as the Frenchlanguage gradually lost its case
(E) imperative
9. She writes across generational lines,making the past so _____ that our belief
that the present is the true locus ofexperience is undermined
10. Just as the authors’ book on eels isoften a key text for courses in marine
vertebrate zoology, their ideas on animaldevelopment and phylogeny
_____teaching in this area.
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