92-04

92 年4 月SECTION 1
1. It was a war the queen and her more prudent coun-
selors wished to ------- if they could and were determined in any event to ------- as long as possible.
(A) provoke.. delay
(B) denounce.. deny
(C) instigate.. conceal
(D) curtail.. promote
(E) avoid.. postpone
2. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data accumulated are not directly --------- to environmental questions; thus a new program of research specifically addressing such questions is-----
(A) analogous.. promising
(B) transferable.. contradictory
(C) antithetical.. unremarkable
(D) applicable.. warranted
(E) pertinent.. unnecessary
3. Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by
their ------- environment, human beings are products
of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that
is constantly being ----- by massive infusions of new information from everywhere.
(A) harsh.. unconfirmed
(B) surrounding.. upheld
(C) immediate.. transformed
(D) natural.. mechanized
(E) limited. superseded
4. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present
herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness
by having -------the conflicting elements of her life.
(A) affirmed
(B) highlighted
(C) reconciled
(D) confined
(E) identified
5. In their preface, the collection's editors plead that
certain of the important articles they --------- were
published too recently for inclusion, but in the case
of many such articles, this ------- is not valid.
(A) discussed.. replacement
(B) omitted.. excuse
(C) revised.. clarification
(D) disparaged.. justification
(E) ignored.. endorsement
6. The labor union and the company's management,
despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic
disagreement on nearly every issue, have nevertheless
reached an unexpectedly -------, albeit still tentative,
agreement on next year's contract.
(A) swift
(B) onerous
(C) hesitant
(D) reluctant
(E) conclusive
7. In response to the follies of today's commercial and
political worlds, the author does not ------- inflamed
indignation, but rather ------- the detachment and
smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
(A) display.. rails at
(B) rely on.. avoids
(C) suppress.. clings to
(D) express.. affects
(E) resort to.. spurns

92 年4 月SECTION 4
1. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the
means by which people attain mental health, seems
to be looking for ------- answers: a way to close the
book on at least a few questions about human nature.
(A) definitive
(B) confused
(C) temporary
(D) personal
(E) derivative
2. The well-trained engineer must understand fields as diverse as physics, economics, geology, and sociology; thus, an overly -------engineering curriculum should be avoided.
(A) narrow
(B) innovative
(C) competitive
(D) rigorous
(E) academic
3. Although supernovas are among the most ------- of
cosmic events, these stellar explosions are often
hard to -------, either because they are enormously
far away or because they are dimmed by intervening
dust and gas clouds.
(A) remote.. observe
(B) luminous.. detect
(C) predictable.. foresee
(D) ancient.. determine
(E) violent.. disregard
4. During the widespread fuel shortage, the price of
gasoline was so ------- that suppliers were generally
thought to be------- the consumer.
(A) reactive.. shielding
(B) stable.. blackmailing
(C) depressed.. cheating
(D) prohibitive.. placating
(E) excessive.. gouging
5. Art ------- science, but that does not mean that the
artist must also be a scientist; an artist uses the
fruits of science but need not ------- the theories
from which they derive.
(A) precedes.. anticipate
(B) incorporates. .understand
(C) transcends. .abandon
(D) imitates. .repudiate
(E) resembles. .contest
6. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job
injuries to workers could be an effective ------- to
creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of
employers with poor safety records.
(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive
7. Literature is inevitably a ------ rather than -------
medium for the simple reason that writers interpose
their own vision between the reader and reality.
(A) distorting.. a neutral
(B) transparent.. an opaque
(C) colorful.. a drab
(D) flawless. .an inexact
(E) flexible. a rigid