(A) similar
(B) most
(C) dangerous
(D) uncommon
(E) alternative
16.The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its ____ provisions, but in its broader impact: it made the king subject to the law.
(A) specific
(B) revolutionary
(C) implicit
(D) controversial
(E) finite
17.Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ____ on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a ____ enterprise.
(A) scarce. . common
(B) accessible.. marginal
(C) unidentified.. subsidized
(D) conserved . . public
(E) plentiful.. profitable
18.Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ____ his works.
(A) praise
(B) revile
(C) scrutinize
(D) criticize
(E) neglect
19.Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive bond becomes a powerful ____ for additional learning since, by ____ the parent, the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.
(A) impulse.. surpassing
(B) referent.. recognizing
(C) force.. acknowledging
(D) inspiration.. emulating
(E) channel.. mimicking
20.It is ____ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a totally ____ disease.
(A) folly.. innocuous
(B) irresponsible.. preventable
(C) crucial.. fatal
(D) instinctive.. devastating
(E) detrimental.. insignificant
21.The legislators of 1563 realized the ____ of trying to regulate the flow of labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statute dealt with establishing wages.
(A) intricacy
(B) anxiety
(C) futility
(D) necessity
(E) decadence
22.The ____ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class Rousseau was all the more ____ because he showed so little respect for them.
(A) deference.. remarkable
(B) suspicion.. uncanny
(C) reserve.. unexpected
(D) anger.. ironic
(E) appreciation.. deserved
23.The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ____ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ____.
(A) spurned.. boredom
(B) forgotten.. condescension
(C) classified. .self-righteousness
(D) plausible.. guilt
(E) gripping. .skepticism
24.In the design of medical experiments, the need for ____ assignment of treatments to patients must be ____ the difficulty of persuading patients to participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.
(A) independent.. amended by
(B) competent.. emphasized by
(C) mechanical.. controlled by
(D) swift. .associated with
(E) random.. reconciled with
