What Ms. Morris appreciates most now is the mix of __and urban： She candescend into the subway and roam the city, then spend hours in the botanic garden.(  )。

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• 1Mistier became the agency’s__，and he continued as such not because of hislarge number of shares in the company but because, beyond__, he was, by along shot, better and tougher than anyone else there.(  )。

  A.leader … logic

  B.autocrat …cavil

  C.nemesis …reproach

  D.despot …sympathy

  E.ally …contempt

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• 2Like__，Arctic scientists sequestered on the Pole must accustom themselves tolong periods of sensory__，and regard all calamities as matters of indifference.(  )。

  A.predators … immersion

  B.ascetics …concentration

  C.prelates …adaptation

  D.explorers …intransigence

  E.stoics … deprivation

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• 3It was purely through a gift for nuance that Kempton noticed, while reviewing thework of Whittaker Chambers, something__ authentic beneath the__ andself-pity.(  )。

  A.suspiciously …charm

  B.negligibly … erudition

  C.conspicuously …rue

  D.undeniably … bombast

  E.spuriously …braggadocio

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• 4Though these plots against our organization are malignant growths, we have noright to__them by methods as unkind to random bystanders as radiation may beto healthy tissue.(  )。

  A.sublimate

  B.extirpate

  C.irradiate

  D.desiccate

  E.exfoliate

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• 5At a time when Internet use is expanding rapidly, social critics say the technologyCould__the fragmentation of U. S. society or help to fuse it, depending on howit is used.(  )。

  A.attenuate

  B.exacerbate

  C.simplify

  D.eradicate .

  E.retard

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• 6Poverty had by no means been__ , but the extreme __ that had earliercharacterized large sections of the country had disappeared.(  )。

  A.exacerbated …hegemony

  B.eviscerated …largesse

  C.eliminated …privation

  D.explicated …confusion

  E.prognosticated … lassitude

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• 7Far from contributing to the __ of the father and his son, these emotionaldevelopment programs have a salubrious effect on troubled families.(  )。

  A.estrangement

  B.pleasantries

  C.relationship

  D.duplicity

  E.kinship

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• 8Wildfires dominated the western parts of the United States earlier this year,confirming scientists，hypotheses that it would be the most__fire year yet, butthe consequences of burning land and brush are more than costly.(  )。

  A.unfortunate

  B.expensive

  C.predictable

  D.incendiary

  E.disastrous

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• 9The __ behavior of several employees ___  the cautious impression of thatfinancial company.(  )。

  A.preposterous … augments

  B.reckless … belie

  C.perfidious …confirms

  D.guileless …underlines

  E.trustworthy … complicates

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• 10When the evidence is__，we can be more confident of the historical scenarios wepropose; when theories are weak or evidence scarce, we ought to be more__.(  )。

  A.attainable …intolerant

  B.irrelevant …dissatisfied

  C.available … sophisticated

  D.plentiful …circumspect

  E.present …ungrateful

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