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

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• 1There 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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• 2As 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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• 3The 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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• 4The 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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• 5Warm 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.(  )。

  A.philanthropic

  B.bilious

  C.unbiased

  D.pacifistic

  E.irrelevant

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• 6Were it not for its sturdy clarity, its lurking wit, its homely figuration, its mostlyimpeccable grooming and tuning, Mr. Strand’s poetry might seem on the surface a mere__black shadow.(  )。

  A.picaresque

  B.minatory

  C.fungible

  D.pastoral

  E.placid

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• 7As Socrates was a man of much dignity, with an __face, it was__to saywhether he felt inwardly glad that the end had finally come, or felt sad over the result, and was too manly to show it(  )。

  A.obtuse …difficult

  B.imperturbable … elementary

  C.unassuming … intriguing

  D.impassible …impossible

  E.authoritative …challenging

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• 8A clever bit of artistry, instead of lengthening the distance between us__andthe exalted artist, __it.(  )。

  A.plebeians …widens

  B.laymen … attenuates

  C.dilettantes … repeals

  D.knaves …estimates

  E.critics …advertises

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• 9While the Seven Years，War resolved none of Europe’s__conflicts, so far asNorth America and the British Empire were concerned，the end of this immense conflict did__some of these internal problems.(  )。

  A.economic … wrest

  B.internecine …solve

  C.foreign … ameliorate

  D.domestic … exacerbate

  E.martial …excoriate

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• 10We now know that humans have evolved not to subsist on a single, Paleolithic dietbut to be__eaters, an insight that has important implications for the currentdebate over what people today should eat in order to be healthy.(  )。

  A.flexible

  B.carnivorous

  C.gregarious

  D.predictable

  E.salubrious

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