Questions 1 to 10 below are Text Completion Questions. For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.
1. Today Wegener's theory is (1)____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with (2)____ by the scientific establishment.
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unsupported
unchallenged
undervalued
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reverence
disdain
impartiality
2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
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trudges
meanders
edges
ambles
rages
3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.
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merits
disadvantages
rewards
jargon
problems
4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
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garrulous
equivocal
taciturn
arrogant
gregarious
5. Biological clocks are of such (1)____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to (2)____ them, and, indeed, we find that such clocks are virtually (3)____.
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meager
ambivalent
clear
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eschew
possess
select
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ubiquitous
unknown
compulsory
6. The revolutionaries working to improve the lives of the peasants faced an (1)____ task; the peasants were the least (2)____ of all people, bound by tradition and (3)____ by superstitions.
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unwarranted
uphill
unacceptable
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free
reactionary
enthralled
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rejected
obscured
fettered
7. Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.
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devoid of
teeming with
improved by
destroyed by
active against
8. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on (1)____ , but their intensity (2)____ as they travel further from their source.
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indefinitely
erratically
slowly
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alleviates
diminishes
mitigates
9. This recent evaluation of two artists whose works even experts find difficult to (1)____, reveals a surprising (2)____ in their temperaments: Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer (3)____ and boastful.
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evaluate
distinguish
critique
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similarity
difference
constraint
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choleric
tractable
phlegmatic
10. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been (1)____ in classrooms where emphasis on British-American literature has not reflected the cultural (2)____ of our country.