文档介绍:SECTION 7
Time –30 minutes
38 Questions
1. In the eenth century, novelists and unsympathetic 
travelers portrayed the American West as a land of
---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists 
created ---- image of a land of infinite promise. 
(A) lurid.. a mundane 
(B) incredible.. an underplayed
(C) dispiriting.. an identical 
(D) intriguing.. a luxuriant 
(E) unremitting.. pelling 
2. Honeybees tend to be more ---- than earth bees: 
the former, unlike the latter, search for food together 
and signal their individual findings to one another. 
(A) insular 
(B) aggressive 
(C) differentiated 
(D) mobile 
(E) social 
3. Joe spoke of superfluous and ---- matters with 
exactly the same degree of intensity, as though for 
him serious issues mattered neither more nor less 
than did ----.
(A) vital.. trivialities 
(B) redundant.. superficialities 
(C) important.. necessities
(D) impractical.. es 
(E) humdrum.. essentials 
4. The value of Davis’ sociological research -
promised by his unscrupulous tendency to use 
materials---- in order to substantiate his own 
claims, while ---- information that points to other 
possible conclusions. 
(A) haphazardly.. deploying 
(B) selectively.. disregarding 
(C) cleverly.. weighing 
(D) modestly.. refuting 
(E) arbitrarily.. emphasizing 
5. Once Renaissance painters dis