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1. The bee _________ the nectar from the different flowers and then __________ the liquid into
honey.
A. consumes . . conforms B. observes . . pours
C. rejects . . solidifies D. crushes . . injects
E. extracts . . converts
2. The plan turned out to be __________ because it would have required more financial
backing than was available.
A. intractable B. chaotic
C. irreversible D. untenable
E. superfluous
3. Joining __________ momentum for reform in intercollegiate sports, university presidents
have called for swift steps to correct imbalances between classwork and __________
A. a maximum . . studies B. a rational . . awards
C. an increasing . . athletics D. an exceptional . . professors
E. a futile . . contests
4. Thinking nothing can be done, many victims of arthritis ignore or delay __________
countermeasures, thus aggravating the problem.
A. tardy B. injurious
C. characteristic D. weird
E. effective
5. A strange and __________ fate seemed to keep him helpless and unhappy, despite
occasional interludes of __________.
A. malevolent . . conflict B. bizarre . . disenchantment
C. virulent . . tension D. ineluctable . . serenity
E. intriguing . . inactivity
6. Samuel Clemens chose the __________ Mark Twain as a result of his knowledge of riverboat
piloting.
A. protagonist B. pseudonym
C. mountebank D. hallucination
E. misanthrope
7. For years a vocalist of spirituals, Marian Anderson was finally recognized as __________
singer when the Metropolitan Opera House engaged her.
A. a versatile B. an unusual
C. an attractive D. a cooperative
E. a mediocre

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8. Leonardo da Vinci __________ the law of gravity two centuries before Newton and also
made the first complete __________ charts of the human body.
A. examined . . colorful B. anticipated . . anatomical
C. avoided . . meaningful D. realized . . explanatory
E. suspected . . mural
9. Uncertain which suitor she ought to marry, the princess __________, saying now one, now
the other.
A. improvised B. vacillated
C. threatened D. compromised
E. divulged
10. Factory trawlers, large fishing vessels that drag heavy nets over the seafloor, “vacuum” the
North Pacific seas, trapping fish __________.
A. unintentionally B. indiscriminately
C. paradoxically D. collaboratively
E. temporarily
Questions 11–21 are based on the following passages.
The following two passages describe two views of the makeup and character of an artist.
Passage 1
find any trace of an artist who was not
1 The special quality which makes an artist
actively hostile to his environment, and
of any worth might be defined, indeed, as
an extraordinary capacity for irritation, a 20 thus an indifferent patriot. From Dante to
pathological sensitiveness to Tolstoy and from Shakespeare to Mark
environmental pricks and stings. He differs Twain the story is ever the same. Names
from the rest of us mainly because he suggest themselves instantly: Goethe,
reacts sharply and in an uncommon Heine, Shelley, Byron, Thackeray, Balzac,
manner to phenomena which leave the rest Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Dostoevsky,
of us unmoved, or, at most, merely annoy Carlyle, Moliere, Pope—all bitter critics of
us vaguely. He is, in brief, a more delicate their time and nation, most of them piously
fellow than we are, and hence less fitted to hated by the contemporary 100 percenters,
prosper and enjoy himself under the some of them actually fugitives from rage
and reprisal. Dante
10 conditions of life which he and we must
face alike. Therefore, he takes to artistic 30 put all of the patriotic Italians of his day
endeavor, which is at once a criticism of into Hell, and showed them boiling,
life and an attempt to escape from life. So roasting and writhing on hooks. Cervantes
much for the theory of it. The more the drew such a devastating picture of the
facts are studied, the more they bear it out. Spain that he lived in that it ruined the
In those fields of art, at all events, which Spaniards. Shakespeare made his heroes
concern themselves with ideas as well as foreigners and his clowns Englishmen.
with sensations it is almost impossible to Goethe was in favor of Napoleon. Rabelais,

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a citizen of Christendom rather than of
France, raised a cackle against it that
40 Christendom is still trying in vain to
suppress. Swift, having finished the Irish
and then the English, proceeded to finish
the whole human race. The exceptions are
few and far between, and not many of
them will bear examination. So far as I
know, the only eminent writer in English
history who was also a 100% Englishman,
absolutely beyond suspicion, was Samuel
Passage 2
1 For the ease and pleasure of treading the
old road, accepting the fashions, the
education, the religion of society, he takes
the cross of making his own, and, of
course, the self accusation, the faint heart,
the frequent uncertainty and loss of time,
which are the nettles and tangling vines in
the way of the elf-relying and self-directed,
and the state of virtual hostility in which
he seems to stand to society, and especially
to educated
10 society. For all this loss and scorn, what
offset? The artist is to find consolation in
exercising the highest functions of human
nature. The artist is one who raises himself
from private consideration and breathes
and lives on public and illustrious
thoughts. The artist is the world’s eye. He
is the world’s heart. He is to resist the
vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to
barbarism, by preserving and
communicating heroic sentiments, noble
biographies, melodious
20 verse, and the conclusions of history.
Whatsoever oracles the human heart, in all
emergencies, in all solemn hours, has
uttered as its commentary on the world of
actions—these he shall receive and impart.
And whatsoever new verdict Reason from
her inviolable seat pronounces on the
passing men and women and events of
today—this he shall hear and promulgate.
These being his functions, it becomes the
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Johnson. But was Johnson actually an
artist? If he was, then a kazoo-player is a
50 musician. He employed the materials of
one of the arts, to wit, words, but his use of
them was mechanical, not artistic. If
Johnson were alive today, he would be a
United States Senator, or a university
president. He left such wounds upon
English prose that it was a century
recovering from them.
artist to feel all confidence in himself, and
to defer never to the popular cry.
30 He and he only knows the world. The
world of any moment is the merest
appearance. Some great decorum, some
fetish of a government, some ephemeral
trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half
mankind and cried down by the other half,
as if all depended on this particular up or
down. The odds are that the whole
question is not worth the poorest thought
which the scholar has lost in listening to
the controversy. Let her not quit her belief
that a popgun is a popgun,
40 though the ancient and honorable of the
earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In
silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,
let him hold by himself; add observation to
observation, patient of neglect, patient of
reproach, and bide his own time—happy
enough if he can satisfy himself alone that
this day he has seen something truly.
Success treads on every right step. For the
instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his
brother what he thinks. The artist then
learns
50 that in going down into the secrets of his
own mind he has descended into the
secrets of all minds. He learns that the
artist who has mastered any law in his
private thoughts is master to that extent of
all translated. The poet, in utter solitude
remembering his spontaneous thoughts
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and recording them, is found to have because he fulfills for them their own
recorded that which men in crowded cities nature; the deeper he dives into his
find true for them also. The orator distrusts privatest, secretest presentiment, to his
at first the fitness of his frank confessions, wonder he finds this is the most
his want of acceptable, most public, and universally
true. The people delight in it; the better
60 knowledge of the persons he addresses,
part of every man feels. This is my music;
until he finds that he is the complement of
this is myself.
his hearers—that they drink his words
11. Which of the following quotations is related most closely to the principal idea of Passage 1?
A. “All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction which thou canst not see.”
B. “When to her share some human errors fall, Look on her face and you’ll forget them
all.”
C. “All human things are subject to decay, “And, when fate summons, monarchs must
obey.”
D. “A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.”
E. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds
divide.”
12. The author of Passage 1 seems to regard the artist as
A. the best representative of his time
B. an unnecessary threat to the social order
C. one who creates out of discontent
D. one who truly knows how to enjoy life
E. one who is touched with genius
13. It can be inferred that the author of Passage 1 believes that United States Senators and
university presidents
A. must be treated with respect because of their position
B. are to be held in low esteem
C. are generally appreciative of the great Literary classics
D. have native writing ability
E. have the qualities of the artist
14. All of the following ideas about artists are mentioned in Passage 1 except that
A. they are irritated by their surroundings
B. they are escapists from reality
C. they are lovers of beauty
D. they are hated by their contemporaries
E. they are critical of their times
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15. Which of the following best describes Passage 1 author’s attitude toward artists?
A. sharply critical B. sincerely sympathetic
C. deeply resentful D. mildly annoyed
E. completely delighted
16. It is a frequent criticism of the artist that he lives by himself, in an “ivory tower,” remote
from the problems and business of the world. Which of these below constitutes the best
refutation by the writer of Passage 2 to the criticism here noted?
A. The world’s concerns being ephemeral, the artist does well to renounce them and the
world.
B. The artist lives in the past to interpret the present.
C. The artist at his truest is the spokesman of the people.
D. The artist is not concerned with the world’s doings because he is not selfish and
therefore not engrossed in matters of importance to himself and neighbors.
E. The artist’s academic researches of today are the businessman’s practical products of
tomorrow.
17. The artist’s road is rough, according to Passage 2. Which of these is the artist’s greatest
difficulty?
A. The artist must renounce religion.
B. The artist must pioneer new approaches.
C. The artist must express scorn for and hostility to society.
D. The artist is uncertain of his course.
E. There is a pleasure in the main-travelled roads in education, religion, and all social
fashions.
18. When the writer of Passage 2 speaks of the “world’s eye” and the “world’s heart” he means
A. the same thing
B. culture and conscience
C. culture and wisdom
D. a scanning of all the world’s geography and a deep sympathy for every living thing
E. mind and love
19. By the phrase “nettles and tangling vines” (line 6) the author probably refers to
A. “self-accusation” and “loss of time”
B. “faint heart” and “self-accusation”
C. “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”
D. a general term for the difficulties of a scholar’s life
E. “self-accusation” and “uncertainty

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20. “seems to stand” (line 8) means
A. is B. ends probably in becoming
C. gives the false impression of being D. is seen to be
E. the quick sands of time
21. The difference between the description of the artist in Passage 1 as compared with the artist
in Passage 2 is that
A. one is loyal to his fellow men and women whereas the other is opposed to his or her
environment
B. one is sensitive to his or her environment whereas the other is apathetic
C. one has political aspirations; the other does not
D. one has deep knowledge; the other has superficial knowledge
E. one could be proficient in a field other than art; the other could create only in his or
her present field

Questions 22– 30
The following sentences test your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. Each sentence
contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The
error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one
underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct,
select choice E. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.
EXAMPLE:
The other him immediately drafted by
delegates and accepted the resolution the neutral
A B C D
No error
states.
E
A C D E

Since has been between

22. we first started high school, there great competition for grades
A B C
I No error
him and . .
D E
scarcely about that
23. Many people in the suburbs know the transportation problems city
A B C
every day No error
dwellers experience . .
D E
us who have refused
24. The subject of the evening editorial was instructors to cross the
A B C
striking No error
picket lines of the food service workers. .
D E

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had completed he
25. After the contestants their speeches, I knew that the prize would go to
A B
w hom s tan ding No error
the audience had given a ovation. .
C D E
triple  murder imprisoned
26. Falsely accused of a and for 19 years, Ruben (Hurricane)
A B
feed him No error
Carter, a former boxer, was when a Federal judge declared guiltless. .
C D E
happy
27. Your math instructor would have been to give you a makeup examination if you
A
would have explained hopilalized No error
gone to him and that your parents were . .
B C D E
child asking than
28. The a difficult question was perhaps more shocking to the speaker to
A B C
child's No error
the parents. .
D E
Now selling over
29. that the pressure of the house and packing our belongings is , we can
A B C
look forward No error
to moving to our new home in California. .
D E
leads than who
30. My grandmother a more active life many other retirees are younger than
A B C
her No error
. .
D E

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