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• 181True, he had diplomatic immunity as the assistant agricultural officer at theconsulate, but the publicity and __ of an arrest and interrogation, not tomention expulsion from the country, would hardly profit him.(  )。

  A.frolic

  B.diminishment

  C.festering

  D.comportment

  E.uproar

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• 182__by the surreality of history and the changes unleashed by the 60’s，manywriters in that era became__，withdrawing, turtlelM, inside their own homesand heads.(  )。

  A.Repelled … baroque

  B.Disregarded …rococo

  C.Fascinated … inconspicuous

  D.Intoxicated … legant

  E.Flummoxed … unobtrusive

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• 183Whoever said the__ life is not worth living apparently never intended to go intobook publishing, where there is almost no research and where much of the conventional wisdom is__of folklore，myth and wishful thinking.(  )。

  A.suffering …a reproach

  B.illiterate … a farrago

  C.inauspicious …a rejection

  D.unassuming … an example

  E.unexamined …a pastiche

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• 184When economy, language, culture and history __, people begin to view them as__subjects rather than isolated ones.(  )。

  A.mystify … composite

  B.interact …synthesized

  C.merge …idiosyncratic

  D.continue …attenuated

  E.conflict… unfortunate

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• 185Even though the mayor was not__the argument for the proposal, she decided toforgo her vote.(  )。

  A.influenced by

  B.cognizant of

  C.in support of

  D.opposed to

  E.indifferent to

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• 186Comets have been mistakenly interpreted by humans in times past as __ ofdoom, foretelling famine, plague, and destruction.(  )。

  A.harbingers

  B.illusions

  C.malapropisms

  D.misnomers

  E.effects

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• 187While the ambition to draw an immediate conclusion is__, it is not necessarilycorrect, for the search for the truth depends on__, of which the world tendsthese days to be in short supply.(  )。

  A.common …haste

  B.understandable …patience

  C.daunting …honesty

  D.malignant …benevolence

  E.ill-founded …reason

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• 188Even those most __infections of all, those caused by viruses^-formerlydismissed as untreatable because viruses disappeared into the inner labyrinths ofthe living cells, merging into the very genomes__are now becoming to earlytreatments.(  )。

  A.refractory …amenable

  B.malignant …indifferent

  C.problematic … immune

  D.benign … resistant

  E.mysterious …inaccessible

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• 189The thorough training in the fine points of lyric writing that he has received fromHammerstein has made Sondheim highly critical of those lyricists who__ thebasic techniques of the craft.(  )。

  A.intensify

  B.rely upon

  C.simplify

  D.flout

  E.revise

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• 190While agents and editors often__ their market and sometimes reject good oreven great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly __writing from being published.(  )。

  A.displease … anonymous

  B.misunderstand …execrable

  C.overestimate …repulsive

  D.essay …relevant

  E.avoid …clever

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