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

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• 1Supporters 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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• 2Reading 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.(  )。

  A.apocryphal …prehistoric

  B.preliterate … galvanic

  C.auditory … insipid

  D.succinct …abrupt

  E.scholarly … abstract

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• 3Unfortunately, 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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• 4There 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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• 5When 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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• 6There 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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• 7Even 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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• 8In 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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• 9The experience of dealing with a clamorous band of younger siblings, earning theiraffection while holding them to their tasks, can prove remarkably__ in lateryears when one deals with__colleagues jealous of their prerogatives.(  )。

  A.useful …fractious

  B.trenchant …ambitious

  C.deep-seated … difficult

  D.prophetic … envious

  E.truculent …unruly

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• 10Announcements of discoveries in professional journals always qualify and quantifyTheir__ ; announcements in the general media often do not, because __usually lack the background to interpret them.(  )。

  A.sources …critics

  B.certainty … laymen

  C.shortcomings …experts

  D.jargon …readers

  E.theory … specialists

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