396. The benefits of telecommuting-working at home by means of various electronic communication devices rather than ________ commuting to an office-have been so clearly and consistently ________ that telework is on the rise in virtually every country with a functioning telephone system.
(A) personally ... forgotten
(B) instantly ... underrated
(C) physically ... demonstrated
(D) painfully ... denounced
(E) intermittently ... discredited
397. The best Eskimo carvings of all ages seem to possess a powerful ability to ________ the great barriers of language and time and communicate ________ with us.
(A) leap over ... temporarily
(B) reach across ... directly
(C) rise above ... verbally
(D) pass through ... infrequently
(E) leave behind ... anonymously
398. The biochemistry instructor urged that we take particular care of the ________ chemicals to prevent their evaporation.
(A) insoluble
(B) superficial
(C) extraneous
(D) volatile
(E) insipid
399. The biographer may not have ________ the depths of her subject’s self-contradictory character, but she has traced its intriguingly complex ________ .
(A) plumbed ... tedium
(B) sounded ... surface
(C) thwarted ... background
(D) reached ... insipidity
(E) disregarded ... psyche
400. The biographer of Tennyson is confronted with the problem, rarely solved, of how to make a basically ________ life interesting.
(A) dramatic
(B) bewildering
(C) intriguing
(D) controversial
(E) uneventful
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