39.7
The sea was not an ________the ________of the windmill; on the contrary, while the concept of the new invention passed quickly from seaport to seaport, it made little headway inland.
(A) impediment to...creation
(B) issue in ...acceptance
(C) aid to...designers
(D) obstacle to...diffusion
(E) element in...evolution
51.3
While not _________ with the colorfully obvious forms of life that are found in a tropical rain forest, the desert is _________ to a surprisingly large number of species.
(A) confronted...home
(B) endowed...detrimental
(C) imbued...hostile
(D) teeming...host
(E) brimming...foreign
without : 没有
: 表转折关系
It is to the novelist’s credit that all of the episodes in her novel are presented realistically, without any ______ or playful supernatural tricks.
(A) elucidation
(B) discrimination
(C) whimsy
(D) authenticity
(E) artlessnes
to sb.’s credit
为某人带来荣誉
是某人努力的结果
episode
sert
prometheus
epimetheus
37.1
In some cultures the essence of magic is its traditional integrity; it can be efficient only if it has been _________without loss from primeval times to the present practitioner.
(A) aggrandized
(B) realized
(C) transmitted
(D) manipulated
(E) conventionalized
transmit
missile
miss
mess
mis
mit
E56.5
The legislators of 1663 realized the ________ of trying to regulate the flow of labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statute dealt with establishing wages.
(A) decadence
(B) anxiety
(C) futility
(D) necessity
(E) intricacy
but : 但是: 表转折关系
9.4.
In Franch her startling powers as a novelist are widely ______, but she is almost unknown in the German-speaking world because of the difficulties of ______ her eccentric prose.
(A) ignored...editing
(B) admired...translating
(C) espoused...revealing
(D) obscured...comprehending
(E) dispersed...transcribing
Sir, your brain is really seperated completely, there is nothing right in your left brain, and there is nothing left in your right brain.
29.1. Social scientists have established fairly clear-cut ______ that describe the appropriate behavior of children and adults, but there seems to be ______ about what constitutes appropriate behavior for adolescents.
(A) studies...misapprehension
(B) estimates...indirectness
(C) norms...confusion
(D) regulations...certainty
(E) functions...rigidity
18.5. Number theory is rich in problems of an especially ______ sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but ______ difficult to solve.
(A) elegant...rarely
(B) spurious...equally
(C) abstruse...ostensibly
(D) vexing ...notoriously
(E) cryptic...deceptively