The primary impulse of each human being is to__himself, but the secondaryimpulse is to venture out of the self, to correct its provincialism and heal its loneliness.(  )。

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• 1Educators who study the influences of geographical differences on educationalsuccess have concluded that environment is not__factor, as students in onecountry are no more__than those in another.(  )。

  A.an essential …erudite

  B.a determining …preeminent

  C.a pernicious …mediocre

  D.a conducive …meritorious

  E.a wholesome …susceptible

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• 2O’Sullivan occupied himself by writing to would-be__, outlining his plan for theenterprise and how its glory would__all associated with the project.(  )。

  A.mendicants …assist

  B.detractors …escape from

  C.colleagues …eschew from

  D.analysts …dissimulate with

  E.contributors …redound to

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• 3From Neolithic pottery to the 20th century posters, the extant varieties of arts inChina__those who search for continuity； nonetheless, certain __values arereflected in China’s artistic traditions.(  )。

  A.gratify…evanescent

  B.perplex …ancient

  C.mollify …perpetual

  D.vindicate …tentative

  E.confound …enduring

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• 4As the years went by, Kingsley’s letters displayed him declining into a constant ofaesthetic intolerance; he displayed __dislike of any serious contemporary literature at all.(  )。

  A.a bibulous

  B.an incipient

  C.a subtle

  D.a tasteless

  E.a querulous

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• 5While performers have always attempted to __ the fact that piano isfundamentally a percussion instrument, that particular pianist goes farther than most in__the accepted wisdom through her excessively exuberant style.(  )。

  A.underscore …epitomizing

  B.conceal …qualifying

  C.deny …highlighting

  D.disguise …accentuating

  E.eulogize …criticizing

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• 6The teacher has__catering to some students, but to retain his tenure, whicheffects only.after a teacher has unanimously gratified his students, he offers、his complaints__(  )。

  A.a hesitancy about…carelessly

  B.an aptitude for …sparingly

  C.a repugnance toward …tactfully

  D.an enthusiasm about…zealously

  E.a blitheness about …carefully

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• 7Current estimates put thirteen percent of global flora at risk of extinction, but thisnumber does not include__plants from tropical regions, where the majority ofthe world’s plants grow.(  )。

  A.apocryphal

  B.deciduous

  C.rare

  D.innumerable

  E.vanished

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• 8Although scientists have long__the human appendix as__organ, there is a growing body of evidence indicating that the appendix does in fact have a significant function as a part of the body’s immune system.(  )。

  A.overestimated …a minor

  B.discounted …a vestigial

  C.valued …a major

  D.ignored …a pivotal

  E.studied …an inaccessible

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• 9It is difficult to conceive how, even for those people well disposed to rulethemselves, the attempt to achieve happiness should be rendered so __by onesingle curse, that of a bad form of government.(  )。

  A.laudatory

  B.ineffectual

  C.corrupt

  D.disorganized

  E.ill-tempered

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• 10The monarch and his followers thought of the court as__how the kingdom oughtto be, the harmonious expression of a larger social order centred on the monarch.(  )。

  A.a miscalculation of

  B.irrelevant to

  C.a microcosm of

  D.recognizable as

  E.isometric to

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