While agents and editors often__ their market and sometimes reject good oreven great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly __writing from being published.(  )。

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• 1The thorough training in the fine points of lyric writing that he has received fromHammerstein has made Sondheim highly critical of those lyricists who__ thebasic techniques of the craft.(  )。

  A.intensify

  B.rely upon

  C.simplify

  D.flout

  E.revise

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• 2Even those most __infections of all, those caused by viruses^-formerlydismissed as untreatable because viruses disappeared into the inner labyrinths ofthe living cells, merging into the very genomes__are now becoming to earlytreatments.(  )。

  A.refractory …amenable

  B.malignant …indifferent

  C.problematic … immune

  D.benign … resistant

  E.mysterious …inaccessible

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• 3While 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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• 4Comets 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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• 5Even 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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• 6People worship capital, adore its aura, __ before Porsches and Tokyo landvalues.(  )。

  A.flutter

  B.genuflect

  C.reprise

  D.propagate

  E.smolder

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• 7To survive, a non-human species must be too__to be thoroughly captured, too__to be noticed, or too immutable to be changed.(  )。

  A.resilient …aggressive

  B.diffuse … trivial

  C.intractable … conspicuous

  D.concentrated … camouflaged

  E.mercurial …minute

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• 8At one time few judges were friendly to unions, as demonstrated by a steady streamof decisions__strikes, boycotts, picket lines, and other collective actions.(  )。

  A.permitting

  B.attenuating

  C.intensifying

  D.proscribing

  E.remitting

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• 9We ought not suppose that “social” and “governmental” are __，for thedifferences in the two terms are both manifest and__.(  )。

  A.homonymous …established

  B.insidious … lucid

  C.antonymous … considerable

  D.synonymous …unique

  E.coterminous … evident

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• 10Taylor was always __by temperament and desire, and his sensitivity to othersenabled him to bring together and work with people of very diverse views.(  )。

  A.conciliatory

  B.bibulous

  C.boisterous

  D.obsequious

  E.mendacious

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