Warm and diplomatic in manner, devoted to his wife and sons, Smith fits thestereotype of the__critic in only one particular： he detests bad artists as muchas bad art.(  )。

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• 1The 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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• 2A 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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• 3Creating 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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• 4The 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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• 5It 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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• 6The prevailing view of archeologist is that the last __ copy of the biblicalapocrypha was found at the Alexandrian library, as all other copies of the text had been destroyed.(  )。

  A.literary

  B.scholarly

  C.aboriginal

  D.extant

  E.duplicitous

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• 7The development of these gene technologies may be far in the future, but the moraland social issues raised by them should be discussed__, for once a technologyhas been__, it may be difficult to stop or control.(  )。

  A.democratically … freed

  B.presently …invented

  C.summarily …contested

  D.seriously …veiled

  E.hesitantly … ignored

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• 8As the world has moved into a scientific age, the origin of herbal medicine in manycountries remains shrouded in mystery and often sounds fantastic to those __modern science.(  )。

  A.trained in

  B.averse to

  C.unprepared for

  D.beholden to

  E.neutral toward

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• 9There is another kind of spiritual sacrifice as well, quieter and less celebrated, butjust as remarkable： that of making each day, in its most__aspects—cooking,eating, breathing__ the absolute.(  )。

  A.necessary … a panegyric for

  B.quotidian … an oblation to

  C.prehensile …a sacrifice to

  D.prosaic …an independence of

  E.invidious … a paean to

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• 10They went __, seeking world of codes and shadows： incognito, __，andquietly dissident.(  )。

  A.silently …conspicuous

  B.painlessly … euphemized

  C.guilelessly … unknown

  D.obtrusively …cunning

  E.slyly …incommunicado

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