1. Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular experiment she let a number of______results slip by.
(A) inaccurate
(B) verifiable
(C) redundant
(D) salient
(E) anomalous
2. Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of______, is the first step in learning to be creative.
(A) elegance
(B) resolution
(C) goodness
(D) originality
(E) sympathy
3. The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly______source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.
(A) exploited
(B) quantifiable
(C) controversial
(D) inexhaustible
(E) remarkable
4. Because no comprehensive______exist regarding personal reading practices, we do not know, for example, the
(A) records
(B) instincts
(C) accounts
(D) remedies
(E) proposals
5. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of______.
(A) maturity
(B) fiction
(C) inventiveness
(D) art
(E) brilliance
6. Demonstrating a mastery of innuendo, he issued several______insults in the course of the evening’s conversation.
(A) blunt
(B) veiled
(C) fallacious
(D) boisterous
(E) disguised
7. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having______the conflicting elements of her life.
(A) affirmed
(B) reconciled
(C) highlighted
(D) resolved
(E) identified
8.Animals that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to______them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers.
(A) recognize
(B) hoard
(C) trample
(D) retrieve
(E) identify
9. The notion that cultural and biological influences______determine cross-cultural diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance.
(A) jointly
(B) completely
(C) directly
(D) equally
(E) evenly
分析：空格填入一个副词，修饰“决定(determine)”，并且与“文化和生物影响(cultural and biological influences)”以及“跨文化多样性(cross-cultural diversity)”有关。Is discredited by表示前后是对比关系，所以空格应该体现和“压倒性的(overwhelmingly)”相反的含义。A共同地;B完全地;C直接地;D平等地;E最终地。D选项为正确答案。需要提醒的是，A选项是不对的，因为“共同”也存在某一个因素“压倒性”的情况。
翻译：文化和生物的影响相同程度地决定了跨文化的多样性，这个观念被另外的一个事实挑战，即在人类存在的无数方面，只是文化的因素压倒一切地解释了群体之间的差异。
扩展：本题涉及到关于跨文化多样性的问题。实际上，文化和生物本性都对群体多样性有影响，这也是学术界一直在争论的话题。比如不同民族的生活习惯，可能跟文化背景有关，也可能跟遗传和身体状况有关。我们可以积累一些关于群体差异和文化多样性的例子，并分析这种多样性存在的原因。