The __ 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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- 1Wildfires 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 2Far 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 3Poverty 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 4What 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 5Mistier 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 6When 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 7It 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 8The 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 9The 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
开始考试点击查看答案 - 10In the 1650’s the pacifist Quakers became progressively__with Cromwell’s regime, including the compromises with the old order and what had become__army that seemed interested solely in its own well-being and future.( )。
A.entangled … a billeted
B.unimpressed … an innocuous
C.disenchanted …a rapacious
D.entrenched … a useless1
E.enamored …an outdated
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