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No. 5-2 SECTION 2 1. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is----other forms. (A) segregated from (B) parallel to (C) dependent on (D) overshadowed by (E) mimicked by 2. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of----for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to----its own continental coastline. (A) negligence.. fortify (B) custom.. maintain (C) convenience.. stabalize (D) expediency.. defend (E) exigency.. reinforce 3. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and human- ism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a----between them. (A) generality (B) fusion (C) congruity (D) dichotomy (E) reciprocity 4. A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist’s subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling----the direct communication of emotion to the viewer. (A) facilitates (B) averts (C) neutralizes (D) implies (E) represses 5. While not completely nonplussed by the usually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly----by their lively criticism. (A) humiliated (B) discomfited (C) deluded (D) disgraced (E) tantalized 6. In eighth-century Japan, people who---- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of----fields. (A) conserved.. forested (B) reclaimed.. arable (C) cultivated.. domestic (D) irrigated.. accessible (E) located.. desirable 7. If duty is the natural----of one’s ----the course of future events, then people who are power- ful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not. (A) correlate.. understanding of (B) outgrowth—control over (C) determinant.. involvement in (D) mitigant.. preoccupation with (E) arbiter.. responsibility for 8. COMA: UNCONSCIOUSNESS:: (A) amnesia: effort (B) delirium: confusion (C) paralys