The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to _____ its significance.

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• 1The new office block _____ well with its surroundings.

  A.blends in

  B.stands out

  C.shaped up

  D.sets off

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• 2When people are happy, they tend to give _____ interpretations of events they witness:the eye of the beholder is colored by the emotions of the beholder.

  A.charitable

  B.elaborate

  C.conscientious

  D.vague

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• 3A major goal of law, to prevent potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers,is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it _____ to be a credible threat.

  A.tends

  B.appears

  C.ceases

  D.seems

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• 4Psychology has slowly evolved into an _____ scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.

  A.independent

  B.unusual

  C.outmoded

  D.uncontrolled

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• 5You need a special _____ to go into this part of the building.

  A.permission

  B.allowance

  C.permit

  D.agreement

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• 6Their mutual teasing seemed friendly, but in fact it _____ a longstanding hostility.

  A.produced

  B.masked

  C.contravened

  D.revealed

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• 7It has been argued that politics as _____ , whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.

  A.a theory

  B.an ideal

  C.a practice

  D.a contest

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• 8It′s a good idea to _____ people before taking them into your confidence.

  A.tumble to

  B.root out

  C.bank on

  D.size up

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• 9At several points in his discussion, Graves, in effect, _____ evidence when it does not support his argument, tailoring it to his needs.

  A.addresses

  B.creates

  C.alters

  D.suppresses

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• 10Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing _____ with regard to onset and duration.

  A.lasts

  B.varies

  C.falters

  D.dwindles

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