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• 1The 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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• 2For 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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• 3Modern 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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• 4The 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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• 5We 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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• 6Much 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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• 7The 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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• 8Despite 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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• 9The process of nuclear fission__ requires the use of a reactor core, aroundwhich no lithium blanket of sufficient __ has been developed to contain thehazardous byproducts of the process.(  )。

  A.unfortunately … breadth

  B.occasionally …unreliability

  C.auspiciously …size

  D.fortuitously … expense

  E.technically … imagination

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• 10This advance in depilatory technology will surely__the mood of the undesirablyhirsute woman, long frustrated with primitive and painful hair-removal techniques.(  )。

  A.fascinate

  B.benefit

  C.ameliorate

  D.aggravate

  E.medicate

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