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• 1The works of Baudrillard are filled with seemingly __ but truly vacuousreferences to relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos theory, which the more __physicist will disregard.(  )。

  A.intelligent… reluctant

  B.erudite …vigilant

  C.meaningless …skeptical

  D.scholarly …opinionated

  E.witty …theoretical

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• 2Though managers of commercial shellfish beds in many countries monitor thepresence of pollutants using mice, this method is ethically__and too expensivefor many developing countries, small operations or amateur fishermen.(  )。

  A.lucid

  B.inchoate

  C.pessimistic

  D.preemptive

  E.contentious

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• 3Announcements of discoveries in professional journals always qualify and quantifyTheir__ ; announcements in the general media often do not, because __usually lack the background to interpret them.(  )。

  A.sources …critics

  B.certainty … laymen

  C.shortcomings …experts

  D.jargon …readers

  E.theory … specialists

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• 4The experience of dealing with a clamorous band of younger siblings, earning theiraffection while holding them to their tasks, can prove remarkably__ in lateryears when one deals with__colleagues jealous of their prerogatives.(  )。

  A.useful …fractious

  B.trenchant …ambitious

  C.deep-seated … difficult

  D.prophetic … envious

  E.truculent …unruly

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• 5In spite of__among a few scientists, and years of__discussion, the claimthat earthquakes can be predicted with great precision prevails.(  )。

  A.antipathy … favorable

  B.skepticism …. contentious

  C.mutualism … polite

  D.receptiveness … intelligent ^

  E.popularity …rancorous

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• 6Anthropologists noted that the two __ ethnic groups __ the same saints,worshipped in the same churches, and respected a past of shared values, despite their differences. .(  )。

  A.salutary … praised

  B.alienated … rejected

  C.dominant …isolated

  D.stentorian …delineated

  E.coexistent …venerated

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• 7It was a new era, one that was witnessing breathtaking transformations intraditional ways of life and that demanded__transformations in the institutionsand techniques of government.(  )。

  A.commensurate

  B.antediluvian

  C.peremptory

  D.fordable

  E.contemptible

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• 8Despite the__，Alzheimer’s researchers are still__about the prospects forimmunization, though most agree that more results are needed from humans for usto truly understand immunization’s effects.(  )。

  A.advances …thrilled

  B.obstacles … uncertain

  C.setback … optimistic

  D.publicity …divided

  E.pessimism …unconvinced

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• 9True, he had diplomatic immunity as the assistant agricultural officer at theconsulate, but the publicity and __ of an arrest and interrogation, not tomention expulsion from the country, would hardly profit him.(  )。

  A.frolic

  B.diminishment

  C.festering

  D.comportment

  E.uproar

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• 10__by the surreality of history and the changes unleashed by the 60’s，manywriters in that era became__，withdrawing, turtlelM, inside their own homesand heads.(  )。

  A.Repelled … baroque

  B.Disregarded …rococo

  C.Fascinated … inconspicuous

  D.Intoxicated … legant

  E.Flummoxed … unobtrusive

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