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SECTION 5 1. Because it is----to ----all the business costs related to employee discontent, an accurate estimate of the magnitude of these costs is not easily calculated. (A) difficult.. measure (B) impossible.. justify (C) improper.. overlook (D) useless.. discover (E) necessary.. pinpoint 2. Consider the universal cannibalism of the sea, all of whose creatures----one another. (A) hide from (B) ferret out (C) prey on (D) glide among (E) compete against 3. How could words, confined as they individually are to certain----meanings specified in a dictionary, eventually come, when combined in groups, to create obscurity and actually to prevent thought from being----? (A) indefinite.. articulated (B) conventional.. conceivable (C) unlikely.. classified (D) archaic.. expressed (E) precise.. communicable 4. Even though they tended to be----strangers, fifteenth-century Europeans did not automatically associate----and danger. (A) trusting of.. diversity (B) haughty with.. nonconformity (C) interested in.. enmity (D) antagonistic to.. rudeness (E) hostile to.. foreignness 5. The modern age is a permissive one in which things can be said explicitly, but the old tradition of---- dies hard. (A) garrulousness (B) exaggeration (C) excoriation (D) bombast (E) euphemism 6. Although many findings of the Soviet and United States probes of Venus were complementary, the two sets of atmospheric results clearly could not be---- without a major change of data or----. (A) obtained.. experimentation (B) completed.. position (C) matched.. implementation (D) reconciled.. interpretation (E) produced.. falsification 7. While it is assumed that the mechanization of work has a----effect on the lives of workers, there is evidence available to suggest that, on the contrary, mechanization has served to----some of the tradi- tional roles of women. (A) salutary.. improve (B) drama