The primary impulse of each human being is to__himself，but the secondaryimpulse is to venture out of the self, to correct its provincialism and heal its loneliness.(  )。

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• 1Dissatisfied with the __ of existing research data on a species of panda,zoologists are determined to make__study later.(  )。

  A.inconsistency … a sophistic

  B.compendium …an adaptive

  C.surfeit … a reductive

  D.paucity … an exhaustive

  E.response …an inquisitive

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• 2As the master of ceremonies，that memorable evening, was a noted__，theoccasion seemed to promise the greatest facetiousness and wit.(  )。

  A.valetudinarian

  B.wag

  C.vocalist

  D.bard

  E.bore

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• 3Though a leading authority on Romantic literature, the chairperson is a __speaker whose lectures on even the most exciting literary anecdotes of that time span cause students to yawn and fidget.(  )。

  A.grandiloquent

  B.self-assured

  C.eminent

  D.conscientious

  E.lackluster

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• 4It has been observed that one’s interest in the world is never so approbated as whenone is__other people’s scandal and tragedy, from which we may infer thatmany people’s purported concern is__sincerity.(  )。

  A.removed from …immune from

  B.peripheral to …confused with

  C.entertained by …devoid of

  D.protected from …imbued of

  E.compared with … invented for

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• 5There are moments in life when true __ is called for, when it becomes anabsolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to__in the strongest possiblelanguage.(  )。

  A.honor …soliloquize

  B.largesse …pontificate

  C.eloquence … adjudicate

  D.dignity … expatiate

  E.invective … vituperate

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• 6Given the uniqueness of their alienation from their society and of their impact on it, the Russian intelligentsia of the nineteenth century were a phenomenon almost wholly __(  )。

  A.ignored

  B.superlative

  C.unencumbered

  D.unparalleled

  E.redolent

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• 7Few men would not be__, if things were so arranged that they derived no__from forethought and exertion.(  )。

  A.indifferent …difficulty

  B.indolent …advantage

  C.blameworthy … interest

  D.diffident …rewards

  E.disinterested . prejudice

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• 8Jargon__academic publications, as writers seek to__the fact that they have scarce originality and scant insight.(  )。

  A.merits …announce

  B.infiltrates …relinquish

  C.dominates …camouflage

  D.hinders … admit

  E.plagues …exacerbate

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• 9In contemporary usage, continents are understood to be large, continuous, masses of land, for they are almost always separated by expanses of water.(  )。

  A.elevated

  B.arable

  C.identified

  D.irregular

  E.discrete

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• 10In spite of the __ frequently observed in honeybee colonies, individualhoneybees are characterized by __ to a surprising extent.(  )。

  A.determinism … instinct

  B.cooperation …autonomy

  C.cleanliness …salubriousness

  D.aggression … self-interest

  E.infighting …chaos

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