A faux pas—whether in social circles or in private can be__, as it focuses us onour shortcomings in ways that would otherwise go unnoticed, and helps create self- awareness.(  )。

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• 1Few mathematicians are__their futures on finding any such proof; instead,their efforts are focused on finding good, but not__, solutions for most cases, afield of study aptly known as approximation theory.(  )。

  A.betting …perfect

  B.developing …convenient

  C.pinning …substandard

  D.destroying …exact

  E.establishing …vague

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• 2We must learn to__sentences and to analyze the grammar of our text, for thereis no__ to the grammar of poetry, to the nerve and sinew of the poem, if one isblind to the poetry of grammar.(  )。

  A.limn …introduction

  B.master …obstacle

  C.subordinate …key

  D.parse… access

  E.osculate …clarity

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• 3What Spinoza says of laws is equally true of party-platformg—that those are strongwhich appeal to reason, but__which compel the assent both of reason and thecommon affections of mankind.(  )。

  A.worthy

  B.impregnable

  C.relevant

  D.base

  E.insupportable

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• 4The language of the bureaucrats and administrators must need$ be recognized as__of legal parlance, for there is no other way to explain its pedantic, __ andpernicious style.(  )。

  A.an outgrowth …pervicacious

  B.a visitation …rotten

  C.a rejection …vitriolic

  D.a permutation …heedless

  E.a divagation …rapturous

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• 5A gulf remains between negotiators from the rich world, who are so skeptical theyhope to see the treaty’s ambitious provisions__, and those from poor countries,who want them__(  )。

  A.explicated …ignored

  B.diluted …strengthened

  C.absconded …delivered

  D.reinforced …removed

  E.relaxed …loosened

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• 6Because many of the blacklists in the communications and entertainment industrieswere secret, the number of playwrights, script writers, novelists, and journalists who were__to stop writing permanently is__.(  )。

  A.happy …astounding

  B.forced …unknown

  C.unafraid …impressive

  D.inclined …unsurprising

  E.remiss …inconceivable

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• 7While mimicking the thought of his mentor Socrates, who conceived of forms asexisting on an ethereal, heavenly and__ plane, Plato also argued that formsBecome__in objects.(  )。

  A.abstract…rational

  B.condensed …rarified

  C.sacrilegious …profane

  D.transcendent…immanent

  E.imaginative …earthbound

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• 8Despite certain__habits of the North American screech owl, it performs themajority of its hunting alone, in alpine forests, unfettered by__(  )。

  A.predatory…ecology

  B.instinctual…behavior

  C.exogamous …kinship

  D.omnivorous …diet

  E.diurnal …darkness

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• 9Though__in his youth, Muir grew in the fullness of time to acquire truly __habits envied by even the most hardened of his fellow survivalists.(  )。

  A.a stoic …gourmet

  B.a sycophant …humble

  C.an eccentric …practical

  D.a sensualist …spartan

  E.an ideologue …catholic

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• 10Regardless of the __he evinces, especially when articulating his purportedlyinnate affinity for tennis, he is nevertheless a less than__player once actuallyupon the court.(  )。

  A.passion …sanguine

  B.disapprobation …mediocre

  C.alacrity …pliant

  D.vivacity …vitiated

  E.torpor …ebullient

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