6. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ______.

　　A irrelevant

　　B facetious

　　C mistaken

　　D critical

　　E insincere

　　7. There are simply no ______ for buying stock in certain industries since rapidly changing environmental restrictions will make a profitable return on any investment very unlikely.

　　A incentives

　　B arrangements

　　C explanations

　　D conditions

　　E procedures

　　8. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

　　A connoisseur

　　B critic

　　C friend

　　D scourge

　　E judge

　　9. Word order in a sentence was much freer in Old French than it is in French today, this ______ disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.

　　A restriction

　　B license

　　C similarity

　　D rigidity

　　E imperative

　　10. Roman historians who study the period 30 B.C. to A.D. 180 can ______ the “Augustan peace” only by failing to recognize that this peace in many respects resembled that of death.

　　A decry

　　B applaud

　　C ridicule

　　D demand

　　E disprove