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6.In retrospect, Peterson's students appreciated his_______ assignments, realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to _______ original thought rather than to review the content of his course.
(A) conventional...explain
(B) didactic...ingrain
(C) intimidating...thwart
(D) eniGMATic...stimulate
(E) difficult...discourage
7. Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more ______ aspects of a thing.
(A) paradoxical
(B) stable
(C) conventional
(D) temporal
(E) irionic
8. As the creation of new knowledge through chemistry has become ______ resistance to innovation has become less ______, taking the form of inertia rather than direct attack.
(A) controversial ...sporadic
(B) suspect ...onset
(C) essential ...effective
(D) public ...circumspect
(E) institutionalized ...agGREssive
paradoxical :矛盾的, 似非而是的，对立两面选择其一
9. Paradoxically, England’s colonization of North America was _______ by its success: the increasing prosperity of the colonies diminished their dependence upon, and hence their loyalty to, their home country.
(A) explicate
(B) undermined
(C) determined
(D) altered
(E) distinguished