In the nineteenth century, scientists showed that many familiar substances such asoxygen and carbon had a smallest recognizable constituent and called them atoms， but as even smaller constituents have been discovered, history has shown the name to be __.(  )。

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• 1The 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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• 2TV, 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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• 3We 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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• 4While 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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• 5A 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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• 6The hopeless who __the movies of Ken Loach, Britain，s premier dogmaticfilmmaker, ultimately feel of no interest to the director beyond their ability to his__political points.(  )。

  A.analyze …ignore

  B.avoid … disregard

  C.criticize …articulate .

  D.populate …advance

  E.embellish …highlight

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• 7Despite the__her work received, her particular emphasis did not gain manyadherents for more than a generation.(  )。

  A.tolerance

  B.plaudits

  C.dismissal

  D.criticism

  E.sinecures

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• 8When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen：__ a superman, __, ademigod walking the earth.(  )。

  A.hymned … a nonpareil

  B.exasperated …a dabbler

  C.inveighed …a genius .

  D.lauded …an obscurantist

  E.apostatized … a commoner

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• 9There was an oddly__inflection to his speech, some said, a sense of merelygoing through the motions.(  )。

  A.roguish

  B.lackadaisical

  C.mellifluous

  D.acerbic

  E.reserved

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• 10Unfortunately, zealots not only fight with members of other faiths who challengetheir claim to a monopoly of absolute truth, but they also__their co-religionistsfor interpreting a tradition differently or for holding__beliefs.(  )。

  A.persecute …heterodox

  B.honor …heretical

  C.restitute …parochial

  D.lambaste …perfidious

  E.defend … secular

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