__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.(  )。

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• 1True, 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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• 2Despite 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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• 3It 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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• 4Anthropologists 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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• 5In the newly discovered gene, the change of a single unit of DNA converts theworm from a solitary forager into__diner.(  )。

  A.an intrepid

  B.a voracious

  C.a gregarious

  D.a nomadic

  E.a rapacious

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• 6Whoever said the__ life is not worth living apparently never intended to go intobook publishing, where there is almost no research and where much of the conventional wisdom is__of folklore，myth and wishful thinking.(  )。

  A.suffering …a reproach

  B.illiterate … a farrago

  C.inauspicious …a rejection

  D.unassuming … an example

  E.unexamined …a pastiche

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• 7When economy, language, culture and history __, people begin to view them as__subjects rather than isolated ones.(  )。

  A.mystify … composite

  B.interact …synthesized

  C.merge …idiosyncratic

  D.continue …attenuated

  E.conflict… unfortunate

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• 8Even though the mayor was not__the argument for the proposal, she decided toforgo her vote.(  )。

  A.influenced by

  B.cognizant of

  C.in support of

  D.opposed to

  E.indifferent to

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• 9Comets have been mistakenly interpreted by humans in times past as __ ofdoom, foretelling famine, plague, and destruction.(  )。

  A.harbingers

  B.illusions

  C.malapropisms

  D.misnomers

  E.effects

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• 10While the ambition to draw an immediate conclusion is__, it is not necessarilycorrect, for the search for the truth depends on__, of which the world tendsthese days to be in short supply.(  )。

  A.common …haste

  B.understandable …patience

  C.daunting …honesty

  D.malignant …benevolence

  E.ill-founded …reason

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