Although __ fellow in the public eye, Maxwell has a proclivity towardexpressions of __inner nature that escaped the eyes of even his most criticalbiographers.(  )。

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• 1A__for peril is a virtual prerequisite for any adventurer foolhardy enough toattempt Kilimanjaro; those of__ disposition are well-advised, given the recenttragedy, to avoid the endeavor.(  )。

  A.disregard … an intrepid

  B.reticence …cowardly

  C.consideration …a resourceful

  D.yen …a craven

  E.passion …a heroic

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• 2If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not theideals we were fighting for but the__ we used to accomplish them, which will be__the warfare of Genghis Khan，who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant ofPersi

  A.( )。A.reasons … oblivious to

  B.methods … compared to

  C.passions … contrasted with

  D.weapons …incommensurate with

  E.politics … minor to 3

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• 3Who would have expected that such __ young soul as Arthur, his observationsmute, his manner perpetually self-effacing, might have fought so readily against the whims of his superiors?(  )。

  A.a magnanimous

  B.a perspicacious

  C.a vehement

  D.a reticent

  E.an intractable

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• 4Some of his plans were __ and much too good for this world, but he neverwavered in a cause that he considered just, and in so doing he commanded the respect of even those who__him.(  )。

  A.impractical … worshipped

  B.idealistic … praised

  C.quixotic …opposed

  D.compelling …intrigued

  E.implicit …attacked

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• 5The specialist is__to identify any particular principle as fundamental, insistingthat only when viewed within its proper context can a principle be__.(  )。

  A.motivated … second-guessed

  B.obligated … validated

  C.unlikely …impeached

  D.loath …invoked

  E.careful …vetoed

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• 6We can scarcely afford to neglect airport security in light of the recent terroristactions, but as a reliable contingent of critics has pointed out, the cost of actually implementing these measures remains a__expense.(  )。

  A.feasible

  B.prohibitive

  C.suitable

  D.negligible

  E.mandatory

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• 7The root systems of certain plant families, such as that of tulips and crabgrass,__underground, so that nutrients may be shared along__network.(  )。

  A.burrow … a cavernous

  B.tangle …a deciduous

  C.cozen … a photosynthetic

  D.fuse … a subterranean

  E.abscond … a perennial

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• 8Modern bodies are especially __ to cancer, no doubt because the technologywhich we have labored to develop, by a cruel irony, produces waste that __their  proper functioning.(  )。

  A.relevant …complicates

  B.invulnerable …hinders

  C.insidious … isolates

  D.prone … inhibits

  E.attractive …damages

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• 9For 21 years after the birth of the Prince of Wales, the royal couple producedchildren at the rate of two every three years__eight boys and six girls in all.(  )。

  A.veritable

  B.preternatural

  C.mimetic

  D.fecund

  E.pernicious

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• 10The American space program has once again __ even its most optimisticproponents: it did not expand as rapidly in the third quarter, at least to the extent that most had__.(  )。

  A.discomfited … feared

  B.approbated … calculated

  C.brooked …insinuated

  D.intrigued …assumed

  E.disappointed … predicted

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