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SECTION 1 Time –30 minutes 18 Questions 1. While many Russian composers of the nineteenth century contributed to an emerging national style, other composers did not---- idiomatic Russian musical elements, ---- instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western European Romanticism. (A) utilize ..rejecting (B) incorporate.. preferring (C) exclude.. avoiding (D) repudiate.. expanding (E) esteem.. disdaining 2. Because the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder was obsessed with his ----perfection, he was rarely ----a painting, creating endless variations of a scene on one canvas, one on top of another. (A) quest for.. satisfied with (B) insistence on .. displeased with (C) contempt for.. disconcerted by (D) alienation from.. immersed in (E) need for.. concerned with 3. Objectively set standards can serve as a ----for physicians, providing them ----unjustified malpractice claims. (A) trial.. evidence of (B) model.. experience with (C) criterion.. reasons for (D) test.. questions about (E) safeguard.. protection from 4. In spite of ----reviews in the press, the production of her play was ----almost certain oblivion by enthusiastic audiences whose acumen was greater than that of the critics. (A) lukewarm.. condemned to (B) scathing.. exposed to (C) lackluster.. rescued from (D) sensitive.. reduced to (E) admiring.. insured against 5. The passions of love and pride are often found in the same individual, but having little in common, they mutually ----, not to say destroy, each other. (A) reinforce (B) annihilate (C) enhance (D) weaken (E) embrace 6. The necessity of establishing discrete categories for observations frequently leads to attempts to make absolute ----when there are in reality only----. (A) analyses.. hypotheses (B) correlations.. digressions (C) distinctions.. gradations (D) complications.. ambiguities (E) conjectures.. approxima