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- A
- His thoughts wandered to conditions, to contingencies, of which a
- man does not permit himself to think about without a degree of moral
- disintegration. In these ill-advised reveries he mused upon his life
- as it might have been if he had never met her, or if they had never met
- after her dismissal of him.
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- 1. In this passage, the author suggests that moral disintegration:
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- A. causes conditional thinking
- B. will affect one's future
- C. is an inevitable product of certain trains of thought
- D. is ill-advised
- E. is caused by involvement with women
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- B
- Correct.
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- B
- (C) The author does suggest that certain trains of thought lead to
- moral disintegration.
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- B
- As he recalled the facts, he was at that time in an angry and
- embittered mood, but he was in a mood of entire acquiescence; and
- the reconciliation had been of her own seeking.
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- 1. Judging from this passage, the man seems to feel that:
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- A. he resisted the reconciliation
- B. his bitterness prevented him from accepting her overtures
- C. the woman was responsible for their reconciliation
- D. he was joyful about their reconciliation
- E. none of the above
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- C
- Correct.
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- C
- (C) The man feels that it was the woman who had sought reconciliation.
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- C
- He could not blame her for it; she was very much in love with him,
- and he had been fond of her. In fact, he was still very fond of her;
- when he thought of little ways of hers, it filled him with tenderness.
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- 1. The wording of the passage suggests that:
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- A. the man and the woman were deeply in love
- B. the woman loved him but he did not love her
- C. he loved the woman very much but she did not return his love
- D. the man is glad that he reconciled with her
- E. none of the above
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- b
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- (B) Although the woman loved him, he did not love her.
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- D
- He did justice to her fine qualities, too: her generosity, her
- truthfulness, her entire loyalty to his best interests; he smiled to
- realize that he himself preferred his second-best interests, and in
- her absence he remembered that even her virtues were tedious, and
- even painful at times.
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- 1. In this context, "second-best interests" implies:
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- A. the woman is conspiring against him
- B. the man wishes she were not so concerned with his welfare
- C. the man feels that the woman takes good care of him
- D. A and C
- E. B and C
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- E
- Correct.
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- E
- (E) This phrase suggests that the woman took better care of him than
- he desired.
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- E
- He had his doubts whether there was sufficient compensation in
- them. He sometimes questioned whether he had not made a great mistake
- to get married; he expected now to stick it through; but this doubt
- occurred to him.
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- 1. The man doubts:
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- A. that the woman is worth her cost
- B. that the woman is happy being married to him
- C. his own worth
- D. the woman's virtue
- E. whether he will remain married
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- a
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- F
- Correct.
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- F
- (A) The man doubted that the woman's virtues compensated for the
- constraints which marriage placed upon him.
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- F
- A moment came in which he asked himself, What if he had never come
- back to Marcia that night when she locked him out of her room? Might
- it not have been better for both of them? She would soon have reconciled
- herself to the irreparable; he even thought of her happy in a second
- marriage; and the thought did not enrage him; he generously wished
- Marcia well.
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- 1. Although it is not explicitly stated, one may infer from this and the
- preceding passages all of the following EXCEPT:
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- A. he wishes his marriage were over
- B. he resents Marcia's virtuous love for him
- C. he feels fortunate to be loved by such a good woman
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- G
- Correct.
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- G
- (C) The man does not appreciate Marcia's virtuous love for him.
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- G
- He wished - he hardly knew what he wished. He wished nothing at all
- but to have his wife and child back again as soon as possible; and he
- put aside with a laugh the fancies which really found no such distinct
- formulation as I have given them; which were mere vague impulses,
- arrested mental tendencies, scraps of undirected reverie.
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- 1. In this passage, the author makes it clear that the man:
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- A. did not really mean what he had been thinking
- B. had been having fun at his wife's expense
- C. was frightened and confused by his thoughts
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- 2
- Correct.
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- (C) The man laughed to dispel his confusing and frightening thoughts.
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- 2. After reading these passages, one can most likely anticipate that:
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- A. the man will divorce his wife
- B. all will continue as before
- C. Marcia will realize he resents her
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- H
- Correct.
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- H
- (B) Most likely, things will remain unchanged.
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