三空题

1.For many years, Americans have had a love affair with ferryboats. Feries are said to relieve our frayed nerves after we’ve stewed in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and conventional wisdom also says ferries (i)_____ congestion and air pollution by getting us out of cars. Unfortunately, this (ii)_____ notion recently has (iii)______ several West Coast mayors, who have in consequence eagerly pursued the implementation of ferry service in their cities.

A. contribute to

D. provocative

G. captivated

B. reduce

E. misguided

H. confused

C. cover up

F. cynical

I. outraged

答案：BEG

2.Given children’s active fantasy lives, one might think of truthfulness as (i)_____ virtue in young children, but it turns out that lying is the more(ii)_____ skill. A child who is going to lie must recognize the truth, intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, and be able to convincingly sell that new reality to someone else. Therefore, lying(iii)_____ cognitive development and social skills in a way that honesty simply does not..

A. an instinctive

D. advanced

G. undermines

B. an acquired

E. practical

H. forgoes

C. a conscious

F. mundane

I. demands

答案：BDI

单空题

1. that Seiberg and Witten lack celebrity can be explained by the _____nature of their pursuit: the mathematical exploration of four-dimensional space.

A. pedestrian

B. esoteric

C. compelling

D. global

E. unequivocal

答案：B

2. Politicians who invoke the founders of the United States in support of their views seem to imply that the founders consistently concurred in their own views when in reality they were a highly _____ group of thinkers.

A. erudite

B. innovative

C. predictable

D. contentious

E. methodical

答案：D

3. Investors are grateful that the attorney general has stepped in to pursue inquiries into misfeasance in the financial markets, given that the regulators officially charged with policing the industry have been _____.

A. diffident

B. meticulous

C. straightforward

D. implacable

E. tenacious

答案: A

六选二

1. Coagulation factors are useful proteins whose simple names---many are known only by Roman numerals--_____ their importance and the specificity of their roles in the thinning and clotting of blood

A. nullify

B. obviate

C. mitigate

D. belie

E. mask

F. accentuate

答案： DE

2. Progressive and reactionary populist movements are not necessarily_____: each may, and usually does, possess the features of the other.

A. dichotomous

B. untenable

C. unsustainable

D. contradictory

E. subversive

F. efficacious

答案： AD

3. Even the cleverest use of time management techniques is powerless to _____ sum of minutes in a person’s life, so people squeeze as much as they could into each one of them.

A. justify

B. quantify

C. augment

D. enrich

E. measure

F. extend

答案：CF