1. When people are happy, they tend to give __________ interpretations of events they witness: the eye of the beholder is __________ by the emotions of the beholder. (1)
- (1) charitable, colored
- (2) elaborate, disquieted
- (3) vague, sharpened
- (4) coherent, confused
- (5) reformed, settle
2. Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though __________, remains __________ for United States foreign policy. (2)
- (1) deepening, a challenge
- (2) diminishing, a problem
- (3) excessive, a dilemma
- (4) debilitating, an embarrassment
- (5) stocking, rewarding
3. The genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, apart from being misdescribed in the most sinister and __________ manner as ‘ethnic cleansing’, were also blamed, in further hand-washing rhetoric, on something dark and interior to __________ and perpetrators alike. (3)
- (1) innovative, communicator
- (2) enchanting, leaders
- (3) disingenuous, victims
- (4) exigent, exploiters
- (5) concise, parasite
4. As navigators, calendar makers, and other __________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced to__________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth. (4)
- (1) scrutinizers, believe
- (2) observers, agree
- (3) scrutinizers, suggest
- (4) observers, concede
- (5) scientists, congest
5. Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand, there is his __________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment, including __________. (4)
- (1) constitutional, weather
- (2) congenital, education
- (3) personal, climate
- (4) genetic, pedagogy
- (5) systematic, inheritance