8.Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and theknowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, someanthropologists have ____ achievements like the sophisticated carvedcalendar sticks of the Winnebago people.

 

(A) described

(B) acknowledged

(C) overlooked

(D) defended

(E) authenticated

 

9.Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changingtimes and styles has been constantly ____ over the years, therebyreflecting its own mutability.

 

(A) appreciated

(B) emulated

(C) criticized

(D) revised

(E) reprinted

 

10.Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ____ of the blizzard of 1888.

 

(A) inevitability

(B) ferocity

(C) importance

(D) probability

(E) mildness

 

11.The architects of New York’s early skyscrapers, hinting here at atwelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, soughtto legitimize the city’s social strivings by ____ a history the citydid not truly ____.

 

(A) revealing.. deserve

(B) displaying.. desire

(C) evoking.. possess

(D) preserving.. experience

(E) flouting.. believe

12.Early critics of Emily Dickinson’s poetry mistook forsimplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact sheconstructed with such ____.

 

(A) astonishment

(B) vexation

(C) allusion

(D) innocence

(E) cunning

 

13.The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continueto be ____,but will probably be ____ by new ones under development.

 

(A) fruitful.. reversed

(B) refined.. upgraded

(C) inconvenient.. reassessed

(D) used.. supplemented

(E) harmless.. improved

 

14.There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose studyhas been ____ to the extent that they no longer ____ ecologists.

 

(A) perfected.. hinder

(B) exhausted.. interest

(C) prolonged.. require

(D) prevented.. challenge

(E) delayed.. benefit