As 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(  )。

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• 1Were 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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• 2They 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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• 3There 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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• 4As 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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• 5The 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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• 6A 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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• 7While 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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• 8We 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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• 9TV, in particular, spreads the common culture to the far corners of the world; it isa kind of global__，but it spreads at a speed that makes the old plagues seem unbearably slow.(  )。

  A.indulgence

  B.demographic

  C.pastime

  D.catalyst

  E.pandemic

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• 10The driver was excessively __ ，constantly apologizing for the car’s poorsuspension, the heat, the state of the roads, and the__behavior of otherdrivers.(  )。

  A.truculent …wrongheaded -

  B.loquacious …saturnine

  C.talkative … intriguing

  D.solicitous …perilous

  E.undemonstrative …erratic

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