New York City is full of people like Mr. O'Neal—life-long bibliophiles with a__accumulation, holed up in compact spaces in the intimate company of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of books.(  )。

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• 1Nathan was a fiercely ambitious and competitive man, as quick to take offence as to give it in his business dealings, and it is not difficult to imagine him responding to such__.(  )。

  A.mysteriously …an entreaty

  B.fractiously … a pleasantry

  C.self-effacingly … an invitation

  D.impetuously …a contretemps

  E.gravely …a leitmotif

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• 2By actual measurement ravens are the most percipient of birds, and onevidence they seem more__than most other living creatures.(  )。

  A.anecdotal … cognizant

  B.reliable … contumelious

  C.preliminary … retiring

  D.subjective … sapient

  E.unavailable … intelligent

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• 3Mild electric current had been thought to__overactive brain regions that causedisease, but in some cases, it may boost nerves，activity and change their firing patterns.(  )。

  A.elucidate

  B.damage

  C.alter

  D.stifle

  E.confuse

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• 4Baudelaire saw the writer as a detached__，a mocking dandy in the big-citycrowd, alienated, isolated, anonymous, and thus __(  )。

  A.socialite …. free

  B.wanderer …soulful

  C.trifler … irresponsible

  D.idler … melancholic

  E.socialite … unnoticed

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• 5The obtuse believe that to be truthful is a matter of__; only the artist, the greatartist, knows that probity is acquired__(  )。

  A.morality … indiscriminately

  B.practice …innately

  C.determination … remotely

  D.luxury … easefully

  E.taste … obsessively

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• 6It is intriguing that those two views are thought to be__; as a matter of fact,this opposition masks their inherent__.(  )。

  A.tangential …obtuseness

  B.irreconcilable … compatibility

  C.choleric … antagonism

  D.insupportable … validity

  E.consistent … plausibility

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• 7The plaintiff could only recover payment for her services if there was evidence of animplied or express contract to__her for the work which she had done.(  )。

  A.sanction

  B.congratulate

  C.remunerate

  D.promote

  E.impeach

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• 8Creating a relatively simple model of the known ecosystem requires a tremendousamount of work even with__set of data at our disposal; creating an accuratemodel for less well-understood ecosystems might well prove __pursuit.(  )。

  A.a comprehensive …a quixotic

  B.an expansive …a realistic

  C.a consequential … a viable

  D.an unproven …a feasible

  E.an incomplete …an impossible

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• 9A fool, especially if he has the misfortune of knowing anything, should__it aswell as he can.(  )。

  A.conceal

  B.invalidate

  C.protect

  D.inspect

  E.improve

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• 10The idea of__, whether the biblical version or the Enlightenment，s, is atbottom a tragic notion, for it implies that individual human choices count for nothing against the weight of__, overwhelming protective force.(  )。

  A.godlessness … a heretic

  B.providence …an inexorable

  C.destiny … a resentful

  D.disaster … a catastrophic

  E.fate … a paternal

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