Wildfires 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.(  )。

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• 1Far 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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• 2Poverty 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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• 3What 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.(  )。

  A.bucolic

  B.acerbic

  C.picaresque

  D.subterranean

  E.riparian

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• 4Mistier 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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• 5Like__，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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• 6The __ 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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• 7When 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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• 8It appears that improving women’s opportunities in science has benefited both thesciences and the__cause of women, for the example of women’s successes infields thought to be most__ to them has provided powerful encouragement towomen seeking equality in other endeavors.(  )。

  A.unrequited …helpful

  B.exclusive … salubrious

  C.revolutionary … apposite

  D.particular …irrelevant

  E.general …resistant

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• 9The opium poppy has two main products： one, the seeds, is quite__while theother, opium, is infamously insidious.(  )。

  A.innocuous

  B.obscure

  C.delicious

  D.malignant

  E.ubiquitous

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• 10The growing popularity of microchips, currently found in applications ranging fromcellular phones to cars,__this new technology’s increasing affordability,(  )。

  A.illustrates

  B.belies

  C.addresses

  D.contains

  E.incites

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