21.The legislators of 1563 realized the ____ of trying to regulate the flow of labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statute dealt with establishing wages. (A) intricacy (B) anxiety (C) futility (D) necessity (E) decadence 22.The ____ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class Rousseau was all the more ____ because he showed so little respect for them. (A) deference.. remarkable (B) suspicion.. uncanny (C) reserve.. unexpected (D) anger.. ironic (E) appreciation.. deserved 23.The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ____ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ____. (A) spurned.. boredom (B) forgotten.. condescension (C) classified. .self-righteousness (D) plausible.. guilt (E) gripping. .skepticism 24.In the design of medical experiments, the need for ____ assignment of treatments to patients must be ____ the difficulty of persuading patients to participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance. (A) independent.. amended by (B) competent.. emphasized by (C) mechanical.. controlled by (D) swift. .associated with (E) random.. reconciled with 25.Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison. (A) amateur's. .sensible (B) expert's.. erratic (C) investor's.. booming (D) insider's.. predictable (E) artist's.. irrational 26.Read's apology to Heflin was not exactly abject and did little to ____ their decades-long quarrel, which had been as ____ as the academic etiquette of scholarly journals permitted. (A) encourage.. sporadic (B) dampen.. courteous (C) obscure.. ceremonious (D) resolve.. acrimonious (E) blur.. sarcastic key:CACED D |