When 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__.(  )。

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• 1The __ 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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• 2Wildfires 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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• 3Far 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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• 4Poverty 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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• 5What 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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• 6It 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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• 7The 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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• 8The 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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• 9In 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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• 10For the more affluent among us, science and technology have improved but not__our lives, providing us, perhaps, more time to return to__way of life andto restore the human touch.(  )。

  A.hindered .. .a baser

  B.an alarming …concern

  C.an optimistic … fastidiousness

  D.a leaden … nonchalance

  E.a vitiated …arrogance

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