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• 211It appears that improving women’s opportunities in science has benefited both thesciences and the__cause of women, for the example of women’s successes infields thought to be most__ to them has provided powerful encouragement towomen seeking equality in other endeavors.(  )。

  A.unrequited …helpful

  B.exclusive … salubrious

  C.revolutionary … apposite

  D.particular …irrelevant

  E.general …resistant

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• 212The opium poppy has two main products： one, the seeds, is quite__while theother, opium, is infamously insidious.(  )。

  A.innocuous

  B.obscure

  C.delicious

  D.malignant

  E.ubiquitous

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• 213The growing popularity of microchips, currently found in applications ranging fromcellular phones to cars,__this new technology’s increasing affordability,(  )。

  A.illustrates

  B.belies

  C.addresses

  D.contains

  E.incites

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• 214In the 1650’s the pacifist Quakers became progressively__with Cromwell’s regime, including the compromises with the old order and what had become__army that seemed interested solely in its own well-being and future.(  )。

  A.entangled … a billeted

  B.unimpressed … an innocuous

  C.disenchanted …a rapacious

  D.entrenched … a useless1

  E.enamored …an outdated

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• 215For the more affluent among us, science and technology have improved but not__our lives, providing us, perhaps, more time to return to__way of life andto restore the human touch.(  )。

  A.hindered .. .a baser

  B.an alarming …concern

  C.an optimistic … fastidiousness

  D.a leaden … nonchalance

  E.a vitiated …arrogance

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• 216The specialist is__to identify any particular principle as fundamental, insistingthat only when viewed within its proper context can a principle be__.(  )。

  A.motivated … second-guessed

  B.obligated … validated

  C.unlikely …impeached

  D.loath …invoked

  E.careful …vetoed

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• 217Some of his plans were __ and much too good for this world, but he neverwavered in a cause that he considered just, and in so doing he commanded the respect of even those who__him.(  )。

  A.impractical … worshipped

  B.idealistic … praised

  C.quixotic …opposed

  D.compelling …intrigued

  E.implicit …attacked

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• 218Who would have expected that such __ young soul as Arthur, his observationsmute, his manner perpetually self-effacing, might have fought so readily against the whims of his superiors?(  )。

  A.a magnanimous

  B.a perspicacious

  C.a vehement

  D.a reticent

  E.an intractable

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• 219If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not theideals we were fighting for but the__ we used to accomplish them, which will be__the warfare of Genghis Khan，who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant ofPersi

  A.( )。A.reasons … oblivious to

  B.methods … compared to

  C.passions … contrasted with

  D.weapons …incommensurate with

  E.politics … minor to 3

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• 220A__for peril is a virtual prerequisite for any adventurer foolhardy enough toattempt Kilimanjaro; those of__ disposition are well-advised, given the recenttragedy, to avoid the endeavor.(  )。

  A.disregard … an intrepid

  B.reticence …cowardly

  C.consideration …a resourceful

  D.yen …a craven

  E.passion …a heroic

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