Scrooge, in the famous novel by Dickens, was a ____ ; he hated the rest of mankind.
Answer: B
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Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experience are apart of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or_________________signs of adolescent anxiety.
Answer: A
What the sentence says is that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development and are not " harbingers (meaning forerunners of indicators) of childhood unhappiness or.... of adolescent anxiety" The parallel structure employed by the author in this sentence indicates that the missing word must have meaning similar to harbingers. Among the choices, prophetic is the only word with such a meaning and is the answer.
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Students who interpret the honor code strictly find it_time some bright sudden complete take - home examinations for less proficient friends.
Answer: C
A 'Take home examination' means an examination in which the question paper is allowed to be taken home by a student for being answered by himself, and then submitted to his teacher for valuation). The sentence seeks to contrast the attitudes of two sets of students-those who interpret the honour code strictly, and those who do not consider it wrong to answer the take-home examinations on behalf of other less intelligent students. Obviously, those students who interpret the honour code strictly would hold that no student should attempt to answer the take-home examination on behalf of another student. They would, therefore, not consider the practice of a brighter student answering the home examination of a less bright student as remedial, or irreproachable or irrelevant. They would certainly consider this practice as unconscionable (meaning against one's conscience or immoral). So, (C) is the answer
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The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.
Answer: D
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Within the tribal government of the Crow Indians, the clan system serves as a method of checks and balances that_________the assumption of authoritarian rule by any one clan.
Answer: B
If the clan system serves as method of checks and balances the natural result will be that any one clan cannot assume authoritarian rule over all the others. So the obvious role of the clan system is to prevent the emergence of such an authoritarian rule. So, (B) is the answer.You can easily verify that none of the other choices lends a logical meaning to the given sentence.
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