1.Although she gives badly titles to her musical compositions, they _________ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
A.exotic … belie
B.eccentric … deploy
C.traditional … exclude
D.imaginative … disguise
E.conventional … incorporate
2.Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizes of French folktales have never them.
A.excluded
B.admired
C.collected
D.promoted
E.comprehended
3.In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been .
A.exaggerated
B.ignored
C.scrutinized
D.derided
E.increased
4.There seems to be no the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s:
indeed, the normal level of interest has recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.
A.quenching … moderated
B.whetting … mushroomed
C.curtailing … warned
D.ignoring … transformed
E.slaking … increased
5.Despite a tendency to be overtly , the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
A.diverting
B.emotional
C.didactic
D.romantic
E.whimsical
6.One of the first of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
A.reformers
B.discoveries
C.casualties
D.critics
E.beneficiaries
7.The research committee urged the archaeologist to her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on .
A.disseminate … supposition
B.withdraw … evidence
C.undercut … caprice
D.document … conjecture
E.downplay … facts
8.The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered despite widespread agreement that it was .
A.respect … crucial
B.dismissal … simplistic
C.skepticism … unfathomable
D.opposition … indisputable
E.acceptance … comprehensive
9.The rate at which soil can absorb water with continuous wetting, so the longer a lasts, or the greater the rate of precipitation, the higher the percentage of water that will flow across the ground as runoff and enter stream channels.
A.rises … deluge
B.diminishes … drought
C.increases … shower
D.decreases … rainstorm
E.stabilizes … thaw
10.The ideas expressed in the art historian’s book are more than one would expect or the basis of her rather treatment of her subject in the opening pages.
A.compelling … intriguing
B.accessible … recondite
C.hidebound … reactionary
D.insightful … innovative
E.dispassionate … evenhanded
11.The meeting on environmental issues produced discussion but no commitment on a plan of action: the many uncertainties surrounding global climatic change and the huge cost of efforts to limit it made the policymakers .
A.little … voluble
B.heated … contentious
C.cordial … quarrelsome
D.frustrating … affable
E.interminable … businesslike
12.Art that endures often makes an initially disturbing impact: the profound experience that such art seeks to provoke necessarily engenders a certain .
A.familiarity
B.ennui
C.upheaval
D.intimacy
E.tranquility
13.The history of film reflects the inherent in the medium itself: film combines still photographs to represent continuous motion and, while seeming to present life itself, can also offer impossible and dreamlike unrealities.
A.trivialities
B.biases
C.constraints
D.paradoxes
E.liabilities
14.The with which the politician peppers her speeches are so memorable that many people think of her as being far more than she in fact is.
A.superlatives … egalitarian
B.pejoratives … optimistic
C.examples … soporific
D.diatribes … censorious
E.malapropisms … straightforward
15.Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to : the gags are fewer and subtler.
A.understatement
B.preciosity
C.symbolism
D.buffoonery
E.melodrama
16.Bebop’s legacy is one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.
A.a mixed……..alienated
B.a troubled……..seduced
C.an ambiguous……….aggrandized
D.a valuable…….refined
E.a noble………pleased
17.The exhibition’s importance lies in its : curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.
A.homogeneity
B.sophistry
C.scope
D.farsightedness
E.insularity
18.Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be read because its prose is so that understanding it requires an enormous effort.
A.seldom…….transparent
B.carefully……..pellucid
C.little……….turgid
D.eagerly……..digressive
E.widely…….prolix
19.Carleton would still rank among the great of nineteenth-century American art event if the circumstance of her life and career were less than they are.
A.celebrities……….obscure
B.failures……..illustrious
C.charlatans……impeccable
D.enigmas……mysterious
E.success……….ignominious
20.Although based on an actual event, the film lacks : the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and documentary truth for dramatic power.
A.conviction……..embraces
B.expressiveness…..exaggerates
C.verisimilitude…….sacrifices
D.realism……….substitutes
E.coherence……..utilizes
21.When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely tone, avoiding the editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.
A.abstruse….scholarly
B.dispassionate……..shrill
C.argumentative…….tendentious
D.whimsical…..capricious
E.cosmopolitan…….timely
22.Despite the fact that the amateur runner trained rigorously for six months before the race, he failed to it: the course was so that even professional runners struggled to finish.
A.complete……..demanding
B.win………manageable
C.master…….short
D.concede…….formidable
E.underestimate…..unusual
23.In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of .
A.compatibility
B.affluence
C.reciprocity
D.contemporaneousness
E.proximity
24.It is as if Woodward could not bear to leave anything out; if he had some of his material, the resulting increase in focus would have more than any loss in comprehensiveness.
A.elaborated…….justified
B.condensed………exaggerated
C.expanded………offset
D.edited……..pointed up
E.pruned……..compensated for
25.The hesitancy of many countries to embrace market reform is unfortunate, because many national success stories suggest that far from such reform, countries should be eager to its benefits.
A.implementing…….document
B.pursuing…………seek
C.eschewing……..reap
D.needing……..realize
E.understanding…….question
26.Contemporary lawmakers’ preoccupation with regulating the Internet is __________ the way lawmakers treated many young industries in the past; United States railroads, for instance, were in business for 60 years before the federal government _______ regulations.
A.antithetical to……….eased
B.faithful to……..levied
C.reminiscent of……..enforced
D.in conflict with ….lifted
E.at odds with…….introduced
27.Despite the fact that the book’s title suggests , the author is not a charlatan claiming to offer a ; rather, her book assessed all possible treatments of certain diseases without identifying any cures.
A.fraud……critique
B.sincerity…….nostrum
C.hyperbole…..warning
D.expertise…….prescription
E.quackery……panacea
28.The profits that the corporation earns from the exclusive-supplier agreements with the universities are , because the terms of agreements that they are inclined to protect the universities’ interests are generally .
A.inexplicable……..flouted
B.unclear……….publicized
C.predictable……….scrutinized
D.declining…….ignored
E.surprising…..enforced