When he was ordered from above to expel two comrades__they insisted onchallenging the leadership he found himself caught between his official duties and his oldest__.(  )。

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• 1She is so__, it is inconceivable how she is generally thought to be__.(  )。

  A.percipient .. reasonable

  B.philanthropic …dogmatic

  C.importunate …fortunate

  D.inconsistent …catholic

  E.self-aggrandizing …unassuming

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• 2Having been as immoral by some reviewers of Tess of the D’__ Urbervilles fouryears earlier, Hardy subsequently __ to preface his work with declamatorycaveats.(  )。

  A.decried …opted

  B.established …failed

  C.answered …chose

  D.regarded …relinquished

  E.ignored …desired

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• 3Despite his failings, Lang*s father was commercially __ and fantasticallyhardworking, and under his__the construction business flourished.(  )。

  A.inexperience …bumbling

  B.astute …aegis

  C.competitive …pretense

  D.incompetent…talents

  E.savvy …misdirection

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• 4Jack Kerouac was neither a demon nor a saint but a __，notably gentle, deeplyconflicted and finally self-destructive person whose dream from childhood was to be a writer.(  )。

  A.muse

  B.martyr

  C.cadge

  D.fallible

  E.ascetic

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• 5This writing is clearly the product of__art, but it has the flame of spontaneityand the grit of independence both as to mode and spirit.(  )。

  A.passionate

  B.critical

  C.sedulous

  D.interesting

  E.considerable

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• 6Initially__expectation, Stella was dismayed to learn that her new duties wouldnot be performed in the golden__of a queen or a princess, but the drab uniformof a cook.(  )。

  A.bereft of …garb

  B.deprived of …garment

  C.full of …apparel

  D.deluged with …pretensions

  E.freed from …accessories

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• 7His initial broadcasting success as a young man was due at least as much to hisconsiderable professional__as it was to his father’s broadcasting connections.(  )。

  A.aplomb

  B.uncertainty

  C.hubris

  D.seniority

  E.nepotism

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• 8Although some scientists__the credibility of the work of their assistants，theyalso __their experimental dat

  A.( )。A.take credit for …appropriate

  B.confirm …exploit

  C.doubt …revisit

  D.undermine …discard

  E.suspect …utilize

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• 9The attitude that a scientist __applying a kind of food colorant scarcely indicatesthat she is__，for she may simply carry the patent rights to another colorantwhich may replace the first.(  )。

  A.favors …acquiescent

  B.advocates …disinterested

  C.opposes …altruistic

  D.dislikes …antagonistic

  E.rejects …opportunistic

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• 10If the contagious nature of yawning is a means of communication within groups ofanimals, possibly as a means to__behavior, yawning in humans is most likely__and an evolutionarily ancient mechanism that has lost its significance.(  )。

  A.clarify …substantial

  B.mirror …minimal

  C.synchronize …vestigial

  D.temporize …analogous

  E.interrupt…pernicious

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