Blank (iii)

glean fromallot topurge from

Text Explanation

Answers: (A), (D), (G)

The contrast is between the indigenous peoples--who know a lot about the jungle--to those who are not indigenous and therefore do not notice anything more than "dense lattice..." The latter are (A) untutored. The indigenous people can discern an abundance, or a (D) cornucopia or cures.

Ethnobotanists hope to learn this knowledge, or (G) glean the knowledge from the indigenous peoples.

11. True, to the classically trained ear, Haydn’s early works can often seem ____________, a mishmash of motifs from which anything fresh has been wrung dry by subsequent composers – to the ears of Haydn’s contemporaries, however, Haydn’s music was ____________.

Blank (i)

complexpredictablehackneyed

Blank (ii)

refreshingly novelprematurely antiquatedhighly derivative

Text Explanation

Answers: (C), (D)

…a mishmash of… , anything fresh… , matches with (C) hackneyed. Hayden s contemporaries signals a time shift. Therefore the second blank is opposite, (D) refreshingly novel.

12 Had the committee any (i) ______________ that it was being investigated for fraud, surely it would have been more (ii) ______________ in trying to cloak any venality.

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questioninklinghindsight

Blank (ii)

suspicioushesitantdiligent

Text Explanation

Answers: (B), (F)