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

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• 1While 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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• 2Because 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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• 3A 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.(  )。

  A.embarrassment

  B.useless

  C.utile

  D.rancorous

  E.spontaneous

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• 4Few 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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• 5We 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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• 6Though__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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• 7Regardless 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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• 8Regardless of what might be said about the vehement diatribes of the Minnesotasenator, one can’t argue that he was any less than utterly__ his beliefs and hisconstituents, for invariably, he voted his__.(  )。

  A.opposed to…politics

  B.committed to…whims

  C.conflicted in …inclinations

  D.considerate in …platform

  E.dedicated to …conscience

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• 9The word “civilization” was just coining into use in the 18th century, in French and in__ English, when conservative men of letters preferred to avoid it as a newfangled(  )。

  A.orthography

  B.homonym

  C.cognomen

  D.misnomer

  E.neologism

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• 10It is clear that many institutional investors once voted__; now after so manyscandals, some managers admit that they should have done more to__ corporateexcesses.(  )。

  A.imprudently …curb

  B.insolently …insinuate

  C.intelligently …observe

  D.precariously…expose

  E.insensitively …brook

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