Although he was__in his efforts to persuade us of the justness of his cause, hispast history, __with failures, prevented us from being any more than skepticalat his words.( )。
A.tireless …marred
B.sage …coupled
C.resourceful …immaculate
D.unassuming …tinged
E.unyielding …touched
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- 1The separation of religion from the state does not mean the establishment ofirreligion by the state, still less the imposition of__philosophy.( )。
A.a parochial
B.a secular
C.a liberal
D.a pious
E.an aristocratic
开始考试点击查看答案 - 2Future generations of physicists may look at the__of their former ideas and seein it, not the relics of some extinct creature, but a crude, early, yet wholly __version of their more modern theories.( )。
A.mockery …distinct
B.armature …laughable
C.specter …congruous
D.skeleton …recognizable
E.treatment …suspect
开始考试点击查看答案 - 3Don’t rule out the caprices in the spirit; a time of great transformations requiresthat we be no less than utterly__in our approach to decision-making.( )。
A.resilient
B.practical
C.wary
D.impeccable
E.adaptive
开始考试点击查看答案 - 4The purpose of interior design is to create a physical environment that is __yetconnected to the outside world, an environment that is ideal for the pursuit of relaxation in a zone of partial__.( )。
A.transcendent of …tasteful ness
B.separate from …isolation
C.peripheral to …tranquility
D.abhorrent to…confluence
E.linked to…autonomy
开始考试点击查看答案 - 5Although most people who acquire West Nile have no __ and those who donormally suffer little more than flu-like illness, it is believed they still can carry __amounts of the virus in their blood for several days.( )。
A.recourse …negligible
B.symptoms …minute
C.cure …significant
D.fever …active
E.hope …incipient
开始考试点击查看答案 - 6With legal migration, governments need to persuade voters that they are acceptingimmigrants who will be__for the country, rather than those who will __drain resources.( )。
A.beneficial …merely
B.jingoistic …withal
C.exotic …constantly
D.amusing …ungraciously
E.helpful …seldom
开始考试点击查看答案 - 7The thesis under consideration was fundamentally __ to the readers of thatmendacious publication, and I would therefore like to use this opportunity, to stakeout some of the basic arguments in need of__.( )。
A.coherent …restatement
B.disavowed …availability
C.misrepresented …clarification
D.incomprehensible …dismissal
E.irrelevant …subordination
开始考试点击查看答案 - 8In the 160 years in which “handedness” has been studied we have learned quite alot, but we still cannot precisely describe what causes humans__to use one handover the other, or why human populations are__toward right-hand use ratherthan left-hand use.( )。
A.infrequently …prejudiced
B.habitually …neutral
C.preferentially …biased
D.perennially …disinterested
E.invariably …indisposed
开始考试点击查看答案 - 9While the causes of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction have received the mostattention, Alvarez’s paper points out work on the other major mass extinctions that may also be__for the tragedy.( )。
A.answerable
B.indefensible
C.pitiable
D.reprehensible
E.avoidable
开始考试点击查看答案 - 10Sadly, Americans of every ethnicity still demand ideological__among their ownkind—although we,re all multiculturalists now, we,re much more __discussingdiversity across the rainbow than within each color.( )。
A.conformity …comfortable
B.hegemony …cantankerous
C.resonance …sensitive
D.subservience …catholic
E.reflection …generous
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