QUESTION
7.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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
ANSWER
7. extensive - enigmatic
8. insight - banality
9. feelings reason
10. turbulence - conglomeration
11. innocuous
12. convergence - confluence