1. The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly----, most frequently by human intervention.
(A) celebrated
(B) predicted
(C) observed
(D) disturbed
(E) questioned

2. There is some----the fact that the author of a book as sensitive and informed as Indian Artisans did not develop her interest in Native American art until adulthood, for she grew up in a region rich in American Indian culture.
(A) irony in
(B) satisfaction in

(C) doubt about
(D) concern about
(E) presumptuousness in

3. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable----through a complex network of producers and consumers.
(A) commodities
(B) dividends
(C) communications
(D) nutrients
(E) artifacts

4. Observable as a tendency of our culture is a -----of ------psychoanalysis: we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems.
(A) divergence.. certainly about
(B) confrontation.. enigmas in
(C) withdrawal.. belief in
(D) defense.. weaknesses in
(E) failure.. rigor in

5. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ----critical.
(A) perennially
(B) disturbingly
(C) uniquely
(D) archetypally
(E) captiously

6. Rhetoric often seems to----over reason in a heated debate, with both sides----in hyperbole.
(A) cloud.. subsiding
(B) prevail.. yielding
(C) triumph.. engaging
(D) reverberate.. clamoring
(E) trample.. tangling

7. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ----of----.
(A) bereft.. theatricality
(B) composed.. adversity
(C) full.. circumstantiality
(D) deprived.. polarity
(E) devoid.. neutrality

8. In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricultural----for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, ----to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease.
(A) circumstances.. proximity
(B) regulations.. conformity
(C) conditions.. adaptability
(D) auspices.. susceptibility
(E) configurations.. propensity

9. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that----was very near the surface.
(A) seriousness
(B) confidence
(C) laughter
(D) poise
(E) determination

10. Even though in today's Soviet Union the---- the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little----to practice their religion.
(A) practitioners among.. opportunity
(B) dissidents within.. obligation
(C) adversaries of.. inclination
(D) leaders of.. latitude
(E) traditionalists among.. incentive