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

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• 1While 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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• 2The so-called Golden Rule is such an obvious, commonsensical truism that it seemsalmost foolish to__it.(  )。

  A.legislate

  B.amend

  C.limn

  D.annotate

  E.enunciate

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• 3For 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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• 4The 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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• 5In “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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• 6We 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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• 7Only 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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• 8Information 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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• 9Money may be the husk of many things, but not the__ , for it buys you food, bulnot appetite, and acquaintances, but not__.(  )。

  A.essence …riches

  B.skin … friendship

  C.dermis …usefulness

  D.kernel … camaraderie

  E.anatomy … spirit

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• 10Advocates of revolutionary distributed computing argue that the traditionaloperating system has become __，akin to placing a baton-wielding orchestraconductor at the front of a session of jazz musicians.(  )。

  A.a prerequisite

  B.a throwback

  C.an anachronism

  D.an anathema

  E.an encumbrance

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