[편입영어] SAT / GRE Prep Sentence, Text completion Real Practice

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1. Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the seafloor of the Bering Shelf a devastated appearance, these activities seem to be actually ------ to the area, ------ its productivity.

   (A) destructive..counterbalancing

   (B) rehabilitative..diminishing

   (C) beneficial..enhancing 

   (D) detrimental..redirecting

   (E) superfluous..encumbering

1-1. US and British officials have made increasingly bellicose statements about the crisis in the region.

① factual

② aggressive

③ consistent

④ mutual

2. In an age without radio or recordings, an age ------ by print, fiction gained its greatest ascendancy.

   (A) decimated

   (B) denigrated

   (C) dominated 

   (D) emphasized

   (E) resurrected

2-1. Academia continues to elucidate how income inequality can grow to dangerous levels that forsake the possibility of social mobility.

① explain

② diversify

③ provoke

④ ignore

3. Scientists' pristine reputation as devotees of the disinterested pursuit of truth has been ------ by recent evidence that some scientists have deliberately ------ experimental results to further their own careers.

   (A) reinforced..published

   (B) validated..suppressed

   (C) exterminated..replicated

   (D) compromised..fabricated 

   (E) resuscitated..challenged

3-1. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.

① quality

② bliss

③ pursuit

④ cradle

4. Although Johnson's and Smith's initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm ------ after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to determine who their lunch partners should be.

   (A) revived

   (B) emerged

   (C) intensified

   (D) flagged 

   (E) persisted

4-1. As winter wanes, maple trees start to release their sugary sap and harvesters eagerly tap at the start of this ephemeral season.

① festive

② peak

③ transient

④ blooming

5. A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that these principles be ------, for they are ------ the regimentation and discipline necessary for military efficiency.

   (A) espoused..contrary to

   (B) suppressed..fulfilled through

   (C) suspended..incompatible with @

   (D) followed..disruptive of

   (E) rejected..inherent in

5-1. Their work made a useful contribution, but it didn't provide enough evidence to gainsay the conclusions of earlier scholars. 

① earn

② assess

③ verify

④ refute

6. To test the ------ of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply investigate the extent to which terms from the one may, without forcing, be ------ the other.

   (A) risk..confused with

   (B) universality..applied to

   (C) decorum..illuminated by

   (D) rate..superseded by

   (E) efficacy..utilized by 

6-1. Gun control advocates had high hopes that reform efforts would have increased momentum in the wake of tragic events.

① despite ② following

③ amid ④ triggering

7. The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens' Oliver Twist for making the characters in the thieves' kitchen so ------.

   (A) threatening

   (B) riveting 

   (C) conniving

   (D) fearsome

   (E) irritating

7. People have to mobilize and have to articulate our priorities and have to band together as a community to turn the tide.

① reverse the situation

② exchange views

③ implement initiatives

④ triumph over fear

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1. As it turns out, air temperatures at the Earth's surface have been _______ while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar over the past 15 years.

① variable

② flat

③ bizarre

④ drastic

2. By arresting relatively moderate activists, Chinese leaders demonstrate again that they will not _______ anti-government demonstrations.

① tolerate

② suppress

③ threaten

④ slander

3. A £60 jar of face cream made with the venom of an Asian snake is flying off the shelves after being billed as the latest _______ to wrinkles.

① placebo

② contributor

③ desire

④ antidote

4. It was January 49 BC, Caesar was staying in the northern Italian city of Ravenna and he had a decision to make. Either he _______ the Senate's command or he moved southward to confront Pompey and plunge the Roman Republic into a bloody civil war. An ancient Roman law forbade any general from crossing the Rubicon River and entering Italy proper with a standing army. To do so was _______. This tiny stream would reveal Caesar's intentions and mark the point of no return.

① indulge in ― justice

② acquiesced to ― treason

③ refrained from ― faith

④ rebelled against ― dedication

5. Andrew Carnegie, a 19th-century tycoon, famously said that inherited wealth "_______ talents and energies" ― one reason why he gave most of his fortune to charity. Business research tends to support the Carnegie thesis. Companies controlled by _______ often underperform competitors that have professional managers.

① conserves ― executives

② reveals ― entrepreneurs

③ deadens ― heirs

④ squanders ― shareholders

6. The most common expression of lex talionis is "an eye for an eye". Legal codes following the  principle of lex talionis have one thing in common: prescribed 'fitting' counter punishment for an offence. In the famous legal code written by Hammurabi, the principle of exact reciprocity is very clearly used. For example, if a person caused the death of another person, the killer would be _______.

① barred from taking

② released on parole

③ exempted from punishment

④ put to death

7. The ruling by India's Supreme Court to reject a patent request by Norvatis for the drug Gleevec, which provides effective treatment for some forms of leukemia, allows Indian makers of generic drugs to _______, cheaper versions of it. 

① use patented compounds

② make an unapproved therapy

③ export prescription drugs

④ continue making copycat

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