Questions 1 to 8 below are Sentence Equivalence Questions.Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
1. As a ____ orientation, though, cultural criminology has been built from more than a simple integration of 1970s British cultural studies into contemporary American criminology.
hybrid
unusual
synergic
unqualified
mutational
crossbreed
2. Bioinformatics is ____ biology in terms of molecules and then applying “informatics” techniques to understand and organize the information associated with these molecules, on a large-scale.
defraying
conceptualizing
reclining
agonizing
hypothesizing
occluding
3. Before you can write a balance equation for a problem that ask you to predict the products and results of a reaction — chemical reaction–, you need to know how to ___ an equation.
wobble
regenerate
electrifying
stabilize
mixing
poise
4. Although serious doubts emerged over recent decades about the ability of humankind to feed itself, the successes of world agriculture recently, in both developed and developing countries, have been ____ if one puts them in the context of human history.
trenched
shocking
tiny
tremendous
awful
remarkable
5. Defending his claim to exist in the face of accusations that his entire story was fanciful, the famous author, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ____ that his life did not happen in any conventional sense; nonetheless, he asks readers to think of his life as real.
condemns
concedes
alleges
concurs
refuses
modifies
6. As we go to press, Greece is ____ on the brink, yet again it seems, of defaulting on its massive debt, with predictions and fears of local, regional, and perhaps ultimately global dire consequences.
stressed
poised
officious
hovering
preoccupied
prescience
7. At the lower and intermediate-levels of language instruction, students do not have sufficient language ____ to inform themselves about current events in the target language.
amity
acerbity
proficiency
effervescence
essence
ability
8. ____ of engineering students is a national and international concern, since a globalizing world needs ever more culturally competent and technically adept graduates to fulfill the work force demands of companies operating globally.