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

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• 1Jargon__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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• 2Few 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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• 3Given 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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• 4The 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.(  )。

  A.sully

  B.actualize

  C.reject

  D.declare

  E.withdraw

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• 5Dissatisfied 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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• 6In 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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• 7Because of the__of alternative therapy in the West, Chinese physicians havegreater confidence that the Chinese remedies with natural herbs are effective.(  )。

  A.truthfulness

  B.decocting

  C.panacea

  D.intrusion

  E.efficacy 4

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• 8How any fetus survives gestation has baffled scientists for decades： the embryo’s tissues are half foreign and yet, unlike__organ transplant, it isn’t normally rejected.(  )。

  A.an adaptive

  B.a mismatched

  C.a successful

  D.an obdurate

  E.a preplanned

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• 9This division of science into two distinct cultural traditions, located in differenttypes of institution, is highly__，but in recent years these two cultures havebegun to__one another.(  )。

  A.influential …disregard

  B.unlikely …join

  C.suspect …benefit

  D.propitious …separate from

  E.pronounced … merge with

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• 10Real body fluids, like those between our cells, are less__than the model fluidsthat the researchers have used so far, and thus may introduce complications.(  )。

  A.experimental

  B.tested

  C.numerous

  D.unresponsive

  E.foreboding

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