411. The developing brain can be likened to a highway system that ________ use: less traveled roads may be abandoned, popular roads broadened, and new ones added where they are needed.
(A) suffers from
(B) evolves with
(C) detours around
(D) atrophies with
(E) buckles under
412. The discovery by George Poinar and Roberta Hess that amber could preserve intact tissue from million-year-old insects ________ the possibility, since proved correct, that it also could preserve intact DNA.
(A) eliminated
(B) distorted
(C) raised
(D) precluded
(E) predestined
413. The dispute became so ________ that we were afraid the adversaries would come to blows.
(A) ironic
(B) generalized
(C) didactic
(D) articulate
(E) acrimonious
414. The eighteenth century was a kind of golden age in deaf history because with the establishment of deaf schools, deaf people emerged from ________ and began to appear in positions of eminence and ________ as writers, engineers, philosophers, and intellectuals.
(A) retirement ... ambiguity
(B) seclusion ... compromise
(C) obscurity ... responsibility
(D) hiding ... ignominy
(E) solicitude ... disrepute
415. The enemy soldiers were hot in pursuit; desperate, the fugitive sought ________ in the village church.
(A) salvation
(B) sanctuary
(C) confirmation
(D) therapy
(E) repudiation
