In view of the fact that his enemies knew him as cheerful, his allies exhorted him,as a matter of self-preservation, to__himself as taciturn.(  )。

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• 1Maureen radiates an unfailing common sense and good humor, although not a falseCheery__； she has no illusions about life, and her grace comes from hercapability to meet it__.(  )。

  A.mirth …flinchingly

  B.naivete …head-on

  C.insensitivity …callously

  D.charm …promptly

  E.ignorance …obscurely

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• 2Research has proven that unlike their sober__who slowed down after making amistake to try to correct their actions, men who imbibe alcohol show no signs of such__behavior.(  )。

  A.adversaries …laudatory

  B.counterparts …corrective

  C.protagonists …conciliatory

  D.functionaries …proper

  E.contemporaries — edified

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• 3Though sometimes__，all too often technology is seen as a__for the greateconomic, social, and political challenges facing the nation as it embarks on the path of modernization.(  )。

  A.expensive …solution

  B.effective …panacea

  C.ignored …salve

  D.relevant …prerequisite

  E.calamitous …fillip

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• 4They were certain that this problem, like so many other__problems, did notever have to be__, but could be resolved through oblique means.(  )。

  A.insoluble …solved

  B.nettlesome …faced

  C.winsome …ignored

  D.troublesome …categorized

  E.fulsome …persuaded

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• 5Enlightenment thinkers__faith in the abilities of mankind to uncover and solvepressing problems of the time, and thus they believe that human beings are__creatures, capable of employing reason and logic.(  )。

  A.readdress …mercurial

  B.posit …duplicitous

  C.maintain …rational

  D.absorb …Jovian

  E.hold …purist

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• 6In Homer’s Iliad , Akhilleus, the greatest of all Greek warriors, is driven towardsimmortality by his own need for__.(  )。

  A.conflict

  B.epiphany

  C.bloodlust

  D.powerlessness

  E.self-preservation

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• 7The__ which in later life he developed towards Charleston suggests that his__childhood had left unsatisfied his need for a permanent home.(  )。

  A.discomfort … humdrum

  B.attachment … peripatetic

  C.resignation …pedestrian

  D.indifference … wily

  E.passion …distraught

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• 8With a smirk, the __ historian takes it as a professional obligation to paradehuman nature always as an object of__.(  )。

  A.puerile … dignity

  B.sardonic …mockery

  C.diligent …study

  D.practiced …distrust

  E.veteran …reproach

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• 9Science and society are__collaborators： In the best of worlds we may achieve avery fine and finely negotiated partnership, and in the worst of worlds,__one by the other.(  )。

  A.symbiotic …destruction of

  B.antagonistic …amelioration of

  C.trustworthy … exploitation of

  D.uneasy … annihilation of

  E.parasitic … indifference to

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• 10Rose was one of the children who observe and__much, and now and then__their friends by a wise or confounding remark.(  )。

  A.prattle … amuse

  B.meditate …nonplus

  C.praise … displease

  D.meddle …surprise

  E.absorb …insult

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