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. Unwilling to admit that they had been in error, the researchers tried to ____ their case with more data obtained from dubious sources.
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ascertain
buttress
refute
absolve
dispute
2. Archaeology is a poor profession; modest sums are available for excavating sites and even more (1)____ amounts for preserving the excavations. As a result many sites that are still to reveal even a fraction of their potentially vital information have been (2)____ and left to the forces of Nature. Re-opening such sites in the future will be all but (3)____.
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paltry
controversial
abundant
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abandoned
overworked
denuded
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trivial
impossible
rewarding
3. The student was extremely foolhardy; he had the ____ to question the senior professor's judgment.
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wisdom
temerity
interest
trepidation
condescension
4. The formerly (1)____ waters of the lake have become (2)____. So even though the waters are teeming with life, fish are no longer visible from the surface.
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murky
stagnant
pellucid
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tranquil
verdant
turbid
5. After the accident, the nerves to her arm were damaged and so the muscles ____ through disuse.
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atrophied
contracted
elongated
invigorated
dwindled
6. Some critics maintain that Tennyson's poetry is uneven, ranging from the (1)____ to the (2)____.
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succinct
trite
sublime
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laconic
sonorous
inspired
7. The immune system is capable of distinguishing self from other at the cellular level. After grafting, unless the immune system is effectively (1)____, there is a (2)____ of lymphocytes in the lymph glands; the newly produced lymphocytes then move in to (3)____ the foreign tissue.
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primed
suppressed
activated
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reduction
proliferation
stasis
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stimulate
regenerate
attack
8. One (1)____ of the new scheme is that it might actually (2)____ just those applicants that it was intended to encourage.
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attraction
highlight
drawback
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induce
daunt
attract
9. Corruption is (1)____ our society; the integrity of even senior officials is (2)____.
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rife in
endangered throughout
alien to
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suspect
intact
unquestioned
10. In their day to day decision making, many senior managers do not follow the apparently (1)____ model favored by orthodox management experts, but rather rely on intuitive processes that often appear (2)____ and (3)____.