Section 1

　　1. Hydrogen is the _____ element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

　　(A) steadiest

　　(B) expendable

　　(C) lightest

　　(D) final

　　(E) fundamental

　　2. Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural _____ doing so.

　　(A) aptitude for

　　(B) repugnance to

　　(C) interest in

　　(D) ignorance of

　　(E) reaction after

　　3. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of _____.

　　(A) maturity

　　(B) fiction

　　(C) inventiveness

　　(D) art

　　(E) brilliance

　　4. The primary criterion for _____ a school is its recent performance: critics are _____ to extend credit for earlier victories.

　　(A) evaluating .. prone

　　(B) investigating .. hesitant

　　(C) judging .. reluctant

　　(D) improving .. eager

　　(E) administering .. persuaded

　　5. Number theory is rich in problems of an especially _____ sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but _____ difficult to solve.

　　(A) cryptic.. deceptively

　　(B) spurious.. equally

　　(C) abstruse.. ostensibly

　　(D) elegant.. rarely

　　(E) vexing ..notoriously

　　6. In failing to see that the justice's pronouncement merely _____ previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk _____ the scope of the justice's judgment.

　　(A) synthesized.. limited

　　(B) overturned.. misunderstood

　　(C) endorsed.. nullified

　　(D) qualified.. overemphasized

　　(E) recapitulated.. defined

　　7. When theories formerly considered to be _____ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human _____.

　　(A) disinterested.. constructions

　　(B) callous.. errors

　　(C) verifiable.. prejudices

　　(D) convincing.. imperatives

　　(E) unassailable.. fantasies