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51) True character lies in the heart of people rather than in their minds, for many of the most difficult
decisions are made through courage not (i) ______________and many of the most inspiring people
in history were forced to act when (ii) ______________might have caused them to choose otherwise.
Blank (i) A. faithfulness B. cogitation C. valor | Blank (ii) D. logic E. statistics F. love |
52) Poverty can result in a vicious cycle of antisocial behavior; for instance, a person born in the ghetto will
inevitably be exposed to (i) ______________methods for monetary gain, which will eventually lead to
(ii) ______________.
Blank (i) A. selfish B. unlawful C. stealth | Blank (ii) D. capitulation E. recidivism F. obstruction |
53) A parent can be blamed, in part, for a teenager's (i) ______________ at school; however, it is ridiculous to
associate parental decision making with all choices made by youth between the ages of 16 and 18 since most
of these teens have at least some insight into the consequences of (ii) ______________ school.
Blank (i) A. absenteeism B. tardiness C. communicating | Blank (ii) D. not concentrating at E. not studying at F. not appearing at |
54) Your thoughts are entirely wrong, and I feel it is necessary to (i) ______________ you of the notion
that (ii) ______________ a child is commensurate with (iii) ______________ that child; after all,
discipline is a means to teach a child right from wrong when it is clear that punishment is fair and just, not
simply to instill fear of unmitigated authority.
Blank (i) A. criticize B. counteract C. disabuse | Blank (ii) D. recognizing E. castigating F. mollifying | Blank (iii) G. confusing H. educating I. nurturing |
55) Security alarms are not as effective of a ______________ as one might think when considering the number
of failures per one thousand break ins; this measurement is commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of units
by local statisticians and is strongly related to whether a burglar is willing to risk being caught.
A. divergence
B. deterrent
C. watchdog
D. vigilance
E. resistor
56) People who (i) ______________ to eat at restaurants regularly are often at risk for heart disease, but this
is a gross simplification of facts; after all, many of the people who go to restaurants frequently are often dealing
with (ii) ______________ at work and have troubling family issues that limit the ability of the individual to eat
at home.
Blank (i) A. prefer B. decide C. wish | Blank (ii) D. duress E. activity F. limitation |
57) Being intrigued is not the same as being (i) ______________much like being (ii) ______________ is not the
same as being ready.
Blank (i) A. prepared B. capable C. hopeful | Blank (ii) D. curious E. intelligent F. fearless |
58) Abstract thought is not limited to human beings as has been shown repeatedly in studies of chimpanzees;
then again, humans have far more raw (i) ______________ power than our closest cousins and
chimpanzees have better physical survival skills such as better overall gross motor coordination and (ii)
______________ than human beings.
Blank (i) A. reasoning B. fortification C. constructive | Blank (ii) D. indoctrination E. calculative ability F. agility |
59) It has been estimated and is widely accepted by primatologists that a healthy silverback gorilla's arms have
several times the strength of a strong human male; interestingly, this has often been taken to mean that the lower
body of a gorilla is relatively (i) ______________, but new evidence has shown that a young silverback can jump
across crevices that are well over 20 feet long, causing primatologists to (ii) ______________how this power is
(iii) ______________ in the lower half of the gorilla's hefty frame.
Blank (i) A. useless B. feeble C. incoherent | Blank (ii) D. disregard E. question F. accept | Blank (iii) G. assessed H. decelerated I. generated |
60) No one person has all the (i) ______________ to society's unpredictable dilemmas, and no one
leader has all the wisdom necessary to deal with the (ii) ____________ associated with unpredictable
social phenomena.
Blank (i) A. details B. constructs C. solutions | Blank (ii) D. violations E. vagaries F. recantations |
Answers:
51) BD
52) BE
53) AF
54) CEH
55) B
56) BD
57) AD
58) AF
59) BEI
60) C
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