Reading the epic known to us as the Iliad is vastly different from the __experience of hearing and seeing it performed, for in place of the bard’__  s flow of sound and image, the reader beholds a mute tome, the size of longish novel.(  )。

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• 1Unfortunately, zealots not only fight with members of other faiths who challengetheir claim to a monopoly of absolute truth, but they also__their co-religionistsfor interpreting a tradition differently or for holding__beliefs.(  )。

  A.persecute …heterodox

  B.honor …heretical

  C.restitute …parochial

  D.lambaste …perfidious

  E.defend … secular

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• 2There was an oddly__inflection to his speech, some said, a sense of merelygoing through the motions.(  )。

  A.roguish

  B.lackadaisical

  C.mellifluous

  D.acerbic

  E.reserved

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• 3When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen：__ a superman, __, ademigod walking the earth.(  )。

  A.hymned … a nonpareil

  B.exasperated …a dabbler

  C.inveighed …a genius .

  D.lauded …an obscurantist

  E.apostatized … a commoner

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• 4Despite the__her work received, her particular emphasis did not gain manyadherents for more than a generation.(  )。

  A.tolerance

  B.plaudits

  C.dismissal

  D.criticism

  E.sinecures

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• 5The hopeless who __the movies of Ken Loach, Britain，s premier dogmaticfilmmaker, ultimately feel of no interest to the director beyond their ability to his__political points.(  )。

  A.analyze …ignore

  B.avoid … disregard

  C.criticize …articulate .

  D.populate …advance

  E.embellish …highlight

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• 6Supporters praised the governor’s action as a speedy and judicious solution, but critics condemned it by the same token as__and unfairly influenced by recentevents.(  )。

  A.indisposed

  B.verbose

  C.irrelevant

  D.hasty

  E.imperious

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• 7To implausibly suggest that this erstwhile__of financial__ was enrichinghimself at public expense is to shake the very foundations of the new Republic.(  )。

  A.victor … legerdemain

  B.exemplar …probity

  C.font …calumny

  D.enemy … cunning

  E.apprentice … reproach

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• 8There are few precious constants in the story of the yen__for a start, it is among the monies of the world, being not much more than a century old.(  )。

  A.a rarity

  B.a laughingstock

  C.an anomaly

  D.a stripling

  E.an abhorrence

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• 9Even though Jung’s theory of the mind has been designated as __by its recentproponents, one can scarcely argues that it offers a truly gestalt and complete picture of the psyche’s operation.(  )。

  A.draconian

  B.abstract

  C.revolutionary

  D.holistic

  E.sartorial

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• 10In spite of__among a few scientists, and years of__discussion, the claimthat earthquakes can be predicted with great precision prevails.(  )。

  A.antipathy … favorable

  B.skepticism …. contentious

  C.mutualism … polite

  D.receptiveness … intelligent ^

  E.popularity …rancorous

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