Question:
1. Even after a century of ____________ investigation, the relation of the solar cycle to terrestrial weather remains _____________.
A. Meticulous, apparent
B. Cursory, clear
C. Sedulous, pertinent
D. Extensive, enigmatic
E. Scientific, unobscured
2. There is great unevenness in his later plays; there are moments of the greatest ______________ in the midst of great _________________.
A. Lucidity, enlightenment
B. Frivolity, triteness
C. Insight, banality
D. Obscurity, ambivalence
E. Profundity, wisdom
3. According to Hume, it is not logic that determines what we say and do; if we decide to help a person in need, we do so because of our _____________ not our _______________.
A. Consciousness, emotions
B. Duty, rights
C. Feelings, reason
D. Beliefs, convictions
E. Concern, kindness
4. In the earliest moments of the Universe conditions of almost inconceivable ______________ raged through the swelling cosmos; yet this great _______________ managed to produce only the simplest of atoms.
A. Tumult, cataclysm
B. Tranquillity, upheaval
C. Violence, complexity
D. Turbulence, conglomeration
E. Chaos, inertia
5. The assumption that chlorofluorocarbons would be _____________in the environment because they were chemically inert, was challenged by the demonstration of a potential threat to the ozone layer.
A. Deleterious
B. Innocuous
C. Persistent
D. Noxious
E. Durable
6. The Rio Gila is part of a ____________ of rivers and cultures as significant as the ______________ of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
A. Disparity, conjunction
B. Intermingling, dichotomy
C. Juxtaposition, divergence
D. Conglomeration, diaspora
E. Convergence, confluence.