Essential 350 G P51 ~ P52, H P53 ~ P55

G P51 ~ P52

1. That is problem really beyond my grasp.

□ comprehension	□ concentration	□ compliment	□ compromise

2. Two winters ago, around Christmas time, I ran over a boy on a sled. He flew out of nowhere. Through the veil of snow, I caught only a brief _______ of him before I sharply cut the wheel.

□ glimpse	□ moment	□ idea	□ look	□ stare

4. A person who kills a great number of people of the same race commits ______.

□ genocide	□ homicide	□ parricide	□ insecticide

5. There is a growing emphasis on education, and parents and grandparents want to see their children get ahead.

□ keep alert	□ learn fast	□ realize	□ succeed

6. They are attempting to gauge his general ability by asking questions about every kind of topic.

□ demonstrate	□ measure	□ distort	□ imitate

7. As researchers grapple with the questionable results, theorists are asking why man domesticated dogs and cats.

□ experiment	□ understand	□ struggle	□ overcome

H P53 ~ P55

1. Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair.

□ ordeal	□ travail	□ disorder	□ fear

2. Little Rock is the hub of the federal interstate highways that cross Arkansas.

□ highpoint	□ summit	□ path	□ center

3. My throat infection left me very ______ and made talking difficult.

□ hoarse	□ dumb	□ indigestible	□ speechless	□ sensible

4. Paradoxically, the beliefs of one era usually the ______ of a former one.

□ tenets	□ predilections	□ heresies	□ precursors

5. When they disembarked at the Los Angeles International Airport, they had to learn about American racial hierarchies.

□ unfavorable opinions	□ graded orders	□ sympathetic feelings	□ external conditions

6. He's a real ______; he never does what he say he believes.

□ Christian	□ hypocrite	□ critic	□ hysteric

7. A ______ is someone whose beliefs or actions are considered wrong by most people, because they disagree with beliefs that are generally accepted.

□ fraud	□ recluse	□ hypocrite	□ heretic

8. U.S. Secretary of State Madelaine Albright made a ______ trip in October to Pyongyang to try to talk Chairman Kim Jong-il into curbing his missile program.

□ historic	□ historical	□ grumbling	□ shaggy

9. The servant's attitude was so ______ that it would have been available to anyone with an appreciation of sincerity.

□ natal	□ hybrid	□ doleful	□ rotund