Today, politicians everywhere routinely__their pledges of reliable leadership inthe belief that any problem can be __ by short-term fixes, spin doctors orcharacter assassination.(  )。

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• 1In the__era of the Regency, she alone portended the Victorian ideal to come,which was to consist of Puritanism, frugality, and high morality.(  )。

  A.exalted

  B.decadent

  C.foregone

  D.contentious

  E.gingerly

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• 2In__market for skilled labor, corporations are increasingly buying homes forhot new hires, a__once reserved for top executives.(  )。

  A.a diminished … perk

  B.a nuanced …benefit

  C.a competitive …perquisite

  D.a specialized … surcharge

  E.an expanding …remonstrance

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• 3British political scientists once had difficulty understanding how the unbalancingeffects of affording greater representation to the wealthy was once the means of preserving the__of the commonwealth.(  )。

  A.character

  B.equipoise

  C.affluence

  D.discontent

  E.rectitude

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• 4The storyline of the novel was extremely involved and included many lesserCharacters__to the central events.(  )。

  A.consequential

  B.coeval

  C.peripheral

  D.indispensable

  E.permeating

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• 5Despite the fact that the life span of animals is conveniently divided into separatestages, including the prenatal, adolescent, and senescent, these periods are not truly__(  )。

  A.co-dependent

  B.reflexive

  C.distinct

  D.coterminous

  E.continuous

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• 6There are many dialects of Chinese with radically different pronunciations of thesame character, but written Chinese is__.(  )。

  A.unstable

  B.uniform

  C.abbreviated

  D.deliberated

  E.graphic

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• 7In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”，Elliot__the loss of___，sobbing inexistentialist despair, and lamenting passive indecision and inaction.(  )。

  A.reinvents …purity

  B.mourns …chance

  C.notates …vivacity

  D.explores …wisdom

  E.considers …grief

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• 8The shah of Persia, although he had to acknowledge that the sultan was a worthyrival, still considered himself a mighty__, as did the sultan himself.(  )。

  A.upstart

  B.potentate

  C.reactionary

  D.autodidact

  E.redoubt

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• 9For him conversation was a matter of displaying all his rhetorical mastery, and inparticular an opportunity to spout witty __ that evidenced his specializedknowledge of insult.(  )。

  A.serendipity

  B.invective

  C.approbation

  D.disquisition

  E.digressions

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• 10The so-called Golden Rule is such an obvious, commonsensical truism that it seemsalmost foolish to__it.(  )。

  A.legislate

  B.amend

  C.limn

  D.annotate

  E.enunciate

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