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

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• 1Despite 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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• 2While 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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• 3Because 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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• 4A 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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• 5Few 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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• 6Regardless 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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• 7Regardless 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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• 8The 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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• 9It 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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• 10Leaving no stone unturned in your__ for the fugitive, gentlemen, I wish youevery advantage, for the individual we seek is swift-witted, wily, and capable of the swiftest__.(  )。

  A.adamancy …vengeance

  B.wrath …chicanery

  C.search …elusions

  D.consanguinity …maneuvers

  E.hunt …delusions

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