Perfect certainty belongs only to the gods; the rest of us have to make do with science and its__(  )。

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• 1Even though avant-garde attacks on the Victorian bourgeoisie were __ inrhetoric, deficient in evidence, and malicious in intent, it does not follow that they had no__grounds.(  )。

  A.infantile …cogent

  B.florid …objective

  C.steeped …justificatory

  D.spare …intrinsic

  E.judicious …realistic

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• 2His specialty is bringing to the forefront the strange and__acts of depravity thatonly the impassive and imperturbable subconscious is __ to grasp and reckonwith.(  )。

  A.withering …surprised

  B.orthodox …avid

  C.silly …unqualified

  D.unseemly …reluctant

  E.macabre …suited

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• 3The vireo’s comeback may prove that habitat along streams in Southern Californiais recovering from the effects of pollution, __indicator of environmental healthin a state that has lost most of its__woodlands.(  )。

  A.a leading …superfluous

  B.an apocryphal …ecological

  C.a partial …surfeit

  D.a telling …riparian

  E.an anecdotal …arboreal

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• 4Scientists have __ for years that turbulence within the gaseous clouds foundthroughout the Milky Way stymies star formation, but some of the forces behindthis disturbance remain__.(  )。

  A.doubted …insufferable

  B.posited …unknown

  C.argued …relative

  D.assumed …exoteric

  E.conveyed …insuperable

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• 5It can not be denied that the existing resources on earth will be depleted, butscientists are __ to concede the inevitability of that day, __ that newenergies can be found in the near future.(  )。

  A.bound …assuming

  B.unprepared …skeptical

  C.hesitant …convinced

  D.likely …realizing

  E.eager …hypothesizing

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• 6After a while, his anger abated, he stopped hurling__and, as he often did aftersuch an outburst, became quite __(  )。

  A.floridities …unassuming

  B.imprecations …remorseful

  C.explications …rueful

  D.epigrams …meek

  E.hyperbole …choleric

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• 7London possessed the manner of__“ 一he was a man whose stately elegancesuggested that he deemed himself above the__.(  )。

  A.a historian …misdeed

  B.a patrician …fray

  C.a poltroon …masses'

  D.a pedant…laymen

  E.a decadent …immoral

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• 8In the business world, there is great antagonism over the high level of insecurityand corruption that result from bureaucracy’s __ways, and a feeling that itwould unfortunately be__to reform them.(  )。

  A.dilatory …futile

  B.methodical …difficult

  C.efficient …dangerous

  D.malingering …antithetical

  E.repugnant …obtuse

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• 9Despite the__odds that the poor facilities and elements have brought about,they have managed to persevere as an athletic team and triumph.(  )。

  A.insuperable

  B.dispassionate

  C.indefatigable

  D.steely

  E.ambivalent

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• 10Historians have established that Charles the III regretted the__of his treasury,the consequence of several expensive war campaigns, but he nevertheless trusted that ^he would find__in his struggle against the king of France.(  )。

  A.scope …aid

  B.penury …favor

  C.deficiency …sagacity

  D.paucity defeat

  E.dearth …cogency

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