No.3-3 section 1

    1. Stress is experienced when an individual feels that the ---- of the environment ---- that individual's resources for handling them.

    (A) circumstances.. intensify

    (B) details.. exclude

    (C) demands.. exceed

    (D) facets.. imply

    (E) benefits.. reveal

    2. To compensate for the substantial decline in the availability of fossil fuels in future years, we will have to provide at least ---- alternative energy source.

    (A) an anticipated

    (B) an official

    (C) an equivalent

    (D) a derivative

    (E) a redundant

    3. Students of the Great Crash of 1929 have never understood why even the most informed observers did not recognize and heed the ---- economic danger signals that in ---- seem so apparent.

    (A) obvious.. combination

    (B) early.. conclusion

    (C) direct.. application

    (D) future.. potential

    (E) prior.. retrospect

    4. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not ----, the manufac- turer's spokesperson argued that effective ---- were simply not available.

    (A) inconsequential.. substitutes

    (B) unusual.. alternatives

    (C) increasing.. procedures

    (D) indeterminable.. safeguards

    (E) proven.. antidotes

    5. Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more ---- aspects of a thing.

    (A) paradoxical

    (B) prevalent

    (C) temporal

    (D) successive

    (E) stable.

    6. The essence of belief is the establishment of

   ----; different beliefs are distinguishable by the

    different modes of action to which they give rise.

    (A) love

    (B) practice

    (C) trust

    (D) commitments

    (E) allegiances

    7. The simplicity of the theory-its main attrac- tion -is also its-, for only by ----the assumptions of the theory is it possible to explain the most recent observations made by researchers.

    (A) liability.. accepting

    (B) virtue.. qualifying

    (C) downfall.. considering

    (D) glory.. rejecting

    (E) undoing.. supplementing

    Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

    8. CATCH: FISH::

    (A) vineyard: wine

    (B) drove: sheep

    (C) herd: elk

    (D) harvest: grain

    (E) gaggle: geese

    9. CURATORS: PAINTINGS::

    (A) writers: plays

    (B) teachers: schools

    (C) clergy: churches

    (D) librarians: books

    (E) police: neighborhoods

    10. METEOROLOGY: WEATHER::

    (A) astronomy: physics

    (B) gerontology: heredity

    (C) pedagogy: textbooks

    (D) pathology: disease

    (E) anthropology: fossils

    11. PUN: JOKE::

    (A)owner: pet

    (B) termite: insect

    (C) child: adult

    (D) pint: quart

    (E) sand: beach

    12. PLAIN: AUSTERE:

    (A) neutral: indifferent

    (B) clean: sterile

    (C) alone: gloomy

    (D) arid: barr

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