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

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• 1For 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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• 2The 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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• 3In “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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• 4There 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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• 5Today, politicians everywhere routinely__their pledges of reliable leadership inthe belief that any problem can be __ by short-term fixes, spin doctors orcharacter assassination.(  )。

  A.renege on … solved

  B.repeal …worsened

  C.defer …exacerbated

  D.observe …ameliorated

  E.deny … confused

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• 6While Einstein’s early__are well-established, it cannot be concluded that hewas any less__as a young physicist than the gifted and obsessive theoretician hebecame later in life.(  )。

  A.failures … erudite

  B.accolades …curmudgeonly

  C.foibles …mannerly

  D.triumphs …brilliant

  E.investigations … passionate

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• 7Jokes form a kind of currency, such that a wisecrack from the most __beggarmay bring instant__.(  )。

  A.mirthless … interest

  B.jocular …disregard

  C.convivial … humor

  D.importunate …reward

  E.hilarious … succor

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• 8We did not discover that his apprehension concerning our hypothesis was__untilwell afterward, following a series of rigorous trials and revisions, at which point our experiment proved an unqualified success.(  )。

  A.unfounded

  B.alert

  C.tenuous

  D.logical

  E.peremptory

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• 9Only superficially obnoxious, his manner endeared him to those who relishedthe mordant wit of turn-of-the-century bohemian New Yorkers.(  )。

  A.rakish

  B.dulcet

  C.compassionate

  D.raffish

  E.sardonic

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• 10Information on behavioral deficits in rats is also __to humans, but there is anenormous step between the psychology of the two species, so we must be careful about declaring such data__ .(  )。

  A.applied …invalid

  B.extrapolated … dissimilar

  C.obscure …sound

  D.relevant …analogous

  E.inapplicable … similar

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