For 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.(  )。

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• 1Modern 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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• 2The 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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• 3We 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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• 4Although __ fellow in the public eye, Maxwell has a proclivity towardexpressions of __inner nature that escaped the eyes of even his most criticalbiographers.(  )。

  A.a loutish …a reckless

  B.a courtly … a churlish

  C.an enchanting … a placid

  D.an unremitting … a polemical

  E.an honest …sentimental

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• 5A__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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• 6The 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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• 7In order to relieve the generally__nature of the meetings, a code of order wasproduced and__with the utmost fidelity.(  )。

  A.extemporaneous …obeyed

  B.hostile … established

  C.insubordinate …abrogated

  D.incommunicative … conveyed

  E.add … rescinded

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• 8Much of computer science work does not involve the sudden__of new languagesbut the methodical __of older ones.(  )。

  A.development …dismissal

  B.expansion … attenuation

  C.analysis … modification

  D.parturition …streamlining

  E.testing …debunking

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• 9The National Endowment for the Arts often provides funding to__artists these days,especially those of women and of color, in the hopes of__a historical inequality.(  )。

  A.marginalized …rectifying

  B.promising … understanding

  C.prominent …concealing

  D.prolific …inspiring

  E.little-known … magnifying

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• 10Despite the paranoia of Picasso, few historians today have found evidence, at anyrate, for the existence of the Situationist__, whom he eternally suspected of__his international reputation.(  )。

  A.saboteurs … augmenting

  B.agents …demystifying

  C.cabal … blighting

  D.coterie… discovering

  E.group …supporting

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