SECTION III TIME - 30 minutes 45 QUESTIONS :RA Each question below consists of a related pair of words or phrases, 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. :RA :Q0 1. QUADRUPED:BIPED:: (a) deer:mammal (b) dinosaur:Homo Sapiens (c) aboriginal:native (d) equine:man (e) bovine:twin :RCB :Q0 2. BLEMISH:IMMACULATE:: (a) impasse:impervious (b) sporadic:meticulous (c) fault:impeccable (d) guilt:culpable (e) blame:reprehensible :RCC :Q0 3. HEINOUS:CASTIGATE:: (a) integral:adjudicate (b) maladroit:expunge (c) ignominious:eulogize (d) heretic:consecrate (e) reprehensible:reprove :RCE :Q0 4. RAIN:HAIL:: (a) steam:water (b) dew:frost (c) vapor:steam (d) crystal:snow (e) cream:milk :RCB :Q0 5. INSCRUTABLE:ENIGMA:: (a) decision:dilemma (b) inexorable:puzzle (c) inexplicable:puzzle (d) irrevocable:loss (e) unrealistic:elucidation :RCC :Q0 6. WOLF:RAPACIOUS:: (a) miser:prodigal (b) horde:irresistible (c) mantis:preying (d) fox:cunning (e) cat:mewling :RCD :Q0 7. AMASS:SCATTER:: (a) accumulate:disperse (b) increment:disburse (c) aggregate:conglomerate (d) disband:diffuse (e) heap:scan :RCA :Q0 8. OFFENSE:RETRIBUTION:: (a) oath:retract (b) expense:retrench (c) crime:trial (d) transgression:punishment (e) revenge:resentment :RCD :Q0 9. ASTRONOMER:STARS:: (a) cryptographer:insects (b) etymologist:plants (c) entomologist:words (d) philatelist:coins (e) ornithologist:birds :RCE :Q0 10. RUTHLESS:CLEMENCY:: (a) equable:serenity (b) peevish:feeling (c) equitable:bias (d) clement:regret (e) serene:placidity :RCC :Q0 11. REDUNDANCY:WORDS:: (a) deluge:rain (b) plethora:disease (c) epidemic:hunger (d) reverberation:music (e) tautology:money :RCA :Q0 12. ROTUND:RECTANGULAR:: (a) terrace:balcony (b) peaked:tricorne (c) dome:quadrangle (d) circumference:perimeter (e) area:sphere :RCC :Q0 13. NEWSPAPER:NEWS:: (a) editor:reporter (b) correspondent:column (c) warden:inmate (d) gossip:rumor (e) libel:slander :RCD :Q0 14. RIVER:SILT:: (a) dregs:society (b) wine:lees (c) stream:levee (d) island:archipelago (e) gulf:inlet :RCB :Q0 15. BUGLE:VIOLONCELLO:: (a) military:musical (b) vulgar:refined (c) ominous:clamorous (d) wind:strings (e) strident:stentorian :RCD Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is STATED or IMPLIED in that passage. :RA :PB Houses and neighborhoods change not only on the basis of age but also on the societal and technological influences on the design and the character of the three-dimensional landscape of neighborhoods. To paraphrase an old adage: as housing goes, so goes the neighborhood. Housing neither ages uniformly nor undergoes the same sequence of change. Massive or rapid change can be destructive in certain types of neighborhoods and to certain portions of society. Such disruptive and rapid shifts make the management of change difficult and cities less humane. House types play an important role in the morphology of cities. In many :RA cases neighborhood image or quality becomes synonymous with house types. As is the case with Kensington the neighborhood has given rise to a house type often referred to in San Diego as Kensington Spanish. In other places house types become associated with the delineation of neighborhood boundaries. For example, Victorian Village as a neighborhood is an architectural region associated with the distribution of Victorian houses. In still other examples, house types play an important role in the scale and rate of socio-economic change, as in West Linden and Oak Park. By mapping and monitoring, urban house types we can gain a better understanding of the role of the :RA three-dimensional landscape in shaping the morphology and socioeconomic structure of cities. In the current age of limitation, it is necessary to identify not only the types of buildings that are important but also the relative staying power associated with various styles and forms. If one can determine what types of neighborhoods have aged gracefully with a minimum of massive disruption and why, the designing of livable, humane neighborhoods and cities will be advanced. :RA :PE :Q0 16. From the passage, it is evident that an "adage" is a(n): (a) proverb (b) three-dimensional landscape (c) device for memorization (d) cure-all (e) declining neighborhood :RCA :Q0 17. The title below which best describes the main idea of this passage is: (a) Technological Designs (b) House Types and Changing Cities (c) Urban Change (d) Victorian Village (e) House Structures :RCB :Q0 18. "Morphology" is generally concerned with: (a) constants (b) maps (c) changes (d) monitors (e) qualities :RCC :PQ :PB There you have it. There, in my view, is the essential reason that Snow's optimism about the coming together of the two cultures has been subverted. Numbers have become more powerful; words have grown weaker. Our society uses numbers more and more effectively; we use words more and more loosely and lamely and vaguely. Compare the era of Roosevelt and Churchill with that of Carter and Thatcher, in just one respect. What most directly affected public morale then, and what most affects it now? In the earlier time, surely it was words touching on human values uttered by those two reverberant voices. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". "I have nothing to offer but :RA blood, toil, tears and sweat". And today? We have grown cynical about the words we hear, but we give all too much credence to the numbers that bombard us: wholesale and consumer price indexes, margins in primaries, rates of inflation, prices at the pump, fluctuations in the prime rate, changes of the gross national product In his "Second Look", Snow pointed out that the scientific culture is not a monolith; different scientific pursuits offer differing human profiles: for example, pure scientists are liberal, engineers are conservative, he said. In the same way, the literary culture has had its divisions, and responses to the shift :RA in signal power have been by no means uniform. Our Nobel prizewinners, Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer, are firmly attached to the tradition of nineteenth-century story-telling, whereas Thomas Pynchon, who may turn out to have been the real genius of the late twentieth-century American letters, is thoroughly at home in the new technologies. Alain Robbe-Grillet, the principal spokesman for the "new wave" in French fiction wrote in an essay called "On Several Obsolete Notions": "The novel of characters belongs entirely to the past, it describes a period: that which marked the apogee of the individual....It is evident that the present period is rather one of administrative numbers". :RA But the literary culture lives by words, and most of us are still charmed by stories and in need of rounded characters, and our response to the scientific revolution expressed in electronics, automation, atomic energy, and especially administrative numbers has indeed been hostile. One reflex of hostile young humanists has been to follow a pastoral impulse, to turn their backs on technology, to try to go back to nature, really to go back to a lost past, but this has often served only to bring them face to face with present realities - blight, pollution, nukes - until finally they have been likely to catch the bleak vision of another devastatingly eloquent literary figure :RA of our time, Samuel Beckett, who in one of his works pictures a lonely human creature crawling on hands and knees across a landscape of nothing but mud. :RA :PE :Q0 19. The title below which best describes the main idea of the passage is: (a) Existentialist Literature (b) Statistics: A Monolith (c) The Retreat of the Humanists (d) Two Cultures: Numbers and Words (e) Shifts in Signal Power :RCD :Q0 20. The writer admires Thomas Pynchon's: (a) storytelling techniques (b) acceptance of new technologies (c) disaffection for the computer (d) well-drawn characters (e) adversarial attitude toward new technologies :RCB :Q0 21. In advancing his thesis, the writer employs all of the following structural devices EXCEPT: (a) example (b) comparison (c) contrast (d) chronology (e) disadvantage :RCE :PQ It is objected to his prose writings that the style is difficult and obscure, abounding in involutions, transpositions, and Latinisms; that his protracted sentences exhaust and weary the mind, and too often yield to no better recompense than confused and indistinct perceptions. We mean not to deny that these charges have some grounds; but they seem to us much exaggerated, and, when we consider that the difficulties of Milton's style have almost sealed up his prose writings, we cannot but lament the fastidiousness and effeminacy of modern readers. We know that simplicity and perspicuity are important questions of style; but there are vastly nobler and more :RA important ones, such as energy, and richness, and in these Milton is not surpassed. The best style is not that which puts the reader most easily and in the shortest time, in possession of a writer's naked thoughts, but that which is the truest image of a great intellect, which conveys fully and carries farthest into other souls the conceptions and feeling of a profound and lofty spirit. To be universally intelligible is not the highest merit. A great mind cannot, with injurious constraint, shrink itself to the grasp of the common passive readers. Its natural movement is free, bold, and majestic, and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes, that the multitude may :RA keep pace with it. A full mind will naturally overflow in long sentences, and, in the moment of inspiration, when thick-coming thoughts and images crowd upon it, will often pour them forth in a splendid confusion, dazzling to common readers, but kindling to congenial spirits. There are writings which are clear through their shallowness. We must not expect in the ocean the transparency of the calm, inland stream. For ourselves, we love what is called easy reading perhaps too well, especially in our hours of relaxation; but we love, too, to have our faculties tasked by master spirits.We delight in long sentences, in which a :RA great truth, instead of being broken up into numerous periods, is spread out in its full proportion, is irradiated with variety of illustration and imagery, is set forth in a splendid affluence of language, and flows like a full stream, with a majestic harmony which fills at once the ear and the soul. :RA :PE :Q0 22. According to the writer, the best style is one that: (a) communicates an author's ideas intelligibly and easily (b) gives the reader ideas most easily and in the shortest time (c) presents the ideas of a great intellect and the concepts and feelings of deep and lofty spirit (d) appeals to the common reader (e) may have a shallow idea but at all events must be clear to every reader :RCC :Q0 23. The writer believes that the critics of Milton's prose style: (a) are catering to lazy readers (b) are exaggerating Milton's noble ideas and neglecting to point out the true rhythms of his prose. (c) are neglecting to mention Milton's elegance of language and other stylistic beauties (d) have no foundation for their criticism (e) are picking at petty flaws :RCA :Q0 24. The writer, in contrast to the critics of Milton's style: (a) likes simple but beautiful language (b) is only interested in the truth of what Milton says (c) prefers Milton's prose style because it is full of Latin expressions (d) believes that Milton's style is neither difficult nor obscure (e) argues that Milton's style is a challenge to the reader's mind and possesses a grandeur that is consistent with his nobility and profundity of thought. :RCE :Q0 25. The writer defends the so called blemishes of Milton's style by saying that: (a) Milton used long sentences because he wrote a long time ago (b) truth cannot be expressed in simple language (c) Milton was not writing for the relaxation of his readers but to confuse them (d) we cannot expect a great thinker like Milton to restrict his ideas or worry lest the reader will be unable to keep up with the pace of his intellect (e) every great writer must have defects of style as well as virtues :RCD :PQ Each question below consists of a word in capital letters, followed by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word in capital letters. Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, consider all the choices before deciding which is best. :RA :Q0 26. FRAUGHT: (a) devoid (b) noisome (c) light (d) honest (e) peaceful :RCA :Q0 27. LAITY: (a) academicians (b) theologian (c) clergy (d) clerical (e) upper classes :RCC :Q0 28. FLAGRANT: (a) violent (b) vitriolic (c) heinous (d) creditable (e) flagitious :RCD :Q0 29. PERVIOUS: (a) impervious (b) amenable (c) willful (d) late (e) irrelevant :RCA :Q0 30. INFRACTION: (a) breach (b) trespass (c) exit (d) compliance (e) solidity :RCD :Q0 31. PLAINTIVE: (a) agreeable (b) defendant (c) mirthful (d) empty (e) decorative :RCC :Q0 32. LIMPID: (a) turbid (b) strong (c) turgid (d) coarse (e) dark :RCA :Q0 33. INCOMPATIBLE: (a) comparable (b) congruous (c) vulnerable (d) affluent (e) incomparable :RCB :Q0 34. DEFILE: (a) unscramble (b) support (c) clarify (d) consecrate (e) sweeten :RCD :Q0 35. PERTINENT: (a) refined (b) lax (c) extraneous (d) release (e) intrinsic :RCC Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that BEST fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. :RA :Q0 36. Conquest of diptheria is one of the twentieth-century medicine's most clear-cut triumphs; it can be ____ by inoculation with diptheria toxoid in the first few months of life, repeated when the child is ten. (a) engendered (b) spurred (c) forestalled (d) intensified (e) extended :RCC :Q0 37. To ____ is to find petty faults. (a) abash (b) vindicate (c) aver (d) cavil (e) demur :RCD :Q0 38. A person whose view of the world is ____ may be considered ____. (a) limited - parochial (b) broad - provincial (c) dynamic - conservative (d) questionable - querulous (e) altruistic - cynical :RCA :Q0 39. In all great successes, we can trace the power of concentration, riveting every faculty upon one ____ aim; perseverance in the pursuit of an undertaking in spite of every difficulty; and ____ which enables us to bear up under all trials, and disappointments. (a) vacillating - fortitude (b) wavering - pusillanimity (c) unwavering - courage (d) nebulous - interest (e) unequivocal - prevarication :RCC :Q0 40. A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance, than the ____ by his awkward attempt to exhibit his ____. (a) demagogue - gaucherie (b) pedant - erudition (c) plutocrat - penury (d) pedagogue - maxims (e) pedant - disdain :RCB :Q0 41. There were a few ____ in the fabric of his otherwise perfect argument. (a) slubs (b) requisites (c) themes (d) chasms (e) paradigms :RCA :Q0 42. When the bank president's prodigious defalcations were discovered by the examiners, the townspeople who had formerly all but worshipped Mr. Lee for his humanitarianism and business acumen heaped ____ upon him instead. (a) panegyrics (b) adulation (c) parsimony (d) solicitude (e) obloquy :RCE :Q0 43. ____ is ____ in dealing with people. (a) braggadocio - facetiousness (b) arrogance - brusqueness (c) superciliousness - meticulousness (d) stubborness - flexibility (e) obduracy - impatience :RCB :Q0 44. A(n) ____ person is one who deviates from a(n) ____ doctrine. (a) orthodox - standard (b) homiletic - orthodox (c) conservative - heterodox (d) heterodox - standard (e) loyal - reactionary :RCD :Q0 45. Things which are ____ are ____. (a) incongruous - averse (b) compatible - consistent (c) contiguous - disparate (d) diverse - uniform (e) arduous - simple :RCB :ET :ET
