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15. Alexander Pope wrote in an age of Party - in the political rather than Downing Street sense - and his kind of intelligence was exactly to an environment in which different groups of people knew different things and supported distinct political causes.

(A) attempted.

(B) atoned.

(C) attached.

(D) attuned.
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Choose the best answer to each of the following test items.

During (16) arguments in the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, one of Heard's attorneys, Benjamin Rottenborn, described a series of Catch-22s that often (17) women who, like Heard, accuse their partners of domestic violence. "If you didn't take pictures, it didn't happen; if you did take pictures, they're fake," he said. "If you didn't tell your friends, you're lying; and if you did tell your friends, they're part of the (18). If you didn't seek medical treatment, you weren't injured; if you did seek medical treatment, you're crazy." Rottenborn did not name a few other damned-if-you-do scenarios that were (19) by Depp's ferociously adept legal team in the course of the six-week-long trial: if you (20) record abusive behavior, you are conniving and untrustworthy; if you don't, it didn't happen. If you ever try to laugh off your partner's ghastly behavior-because the "cycle of abuse" is no less terrifying for being so pathetic and predictable then it's not abuse. If you talk back or fight back, then you are the real abuser.