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Section 4
1. The _______ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the newexpansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing, helped to nurture the ______ of popularliterature. (A) building.. mistrust (B) reappearance.. display (C) receipt.. source (D) selection.. influence (E) emergence.. rise
2. Although ancient tools were ______ preserved, enough have survived to allow us todemonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally ______ progress through prehistory. (A) partially.. noticeable (B) superficially.. necessary (C) unwittingly.. documented (D) rarely.. continual (E) needlessly.. incessant
3. In part of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so ______ that you can walk off thecoast and not know you are over the hidden sea. (A) permanently (B) imperceptibly (C) irregularly (D) precariously (E) slightly
4. Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a naturalprocess of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ______ signs of adolescentanxiety. (A) prophetic (B) normal (C) monotonous (D) virtual (E) typica
5. An investigation that is ______ can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, buttypically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction. (A) timely (B) unguided (C) consistent (D) uncomplicated (E) subjective

6. Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmannneglected to neutralize, by some ______ gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers werebound to feel because of his ______ the high and mighty. (A) quixotic.. intrigue with (B) enigmatic.. familiarity with (C) propitiatory.. involvement with (D) salutary.. questioning of (E) unfeigned.. sympathy for
7. In a ______ society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a sensitive and idealistic person tomake the kinds of ______ decisions that alone spell success as it is defined by such a society. (A) bureaucratic.. edifying (B) pragmatic.. hardheaded (C) rational.. well-intentioned (D) competitive.. evenhanded (E) modern.. dysfunctional