Exercise 5
1.
In response to the follies of today’s commercial and political worlds, the
author does not express inflamed indignation, but rather _________ the
detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
(A) rails at
(B) avoids
(C) suppress
(D) affects
(E) spurns
2.
Although a few delegates gave the opposition’s suggestions a vitriolic
response, most greeted the statement of a counterposition with ______.
(A) dispiritedness
(B) reluctance
(C) resentment
(D) composure
(E) civility
3.
The senator’s reputation, though shaken by false allegations of misconduct,
emerged from the ordeal _________
(A) unscathed
(B) obscure
(C) impaired
(D) unclear
(E) sullied
4.
Even after safeguards against the _________ of popular sovereignty were
included, major figures in the humanistic disciplines remained skeptical about
the proposal to extend suffrage to the masses.
(A) continuation
(B) excesses
(C) introduction
(D) advantages
(E) creation
5.
Although Tom was aware that it would be ________ to display annoyance
publicly at the sales conference, he could not hide his irritation with the client’s
unreasonable demands.
(A) advisable
(B) efficacious
(C) pragmatic
(D) captious
(E) impolitic
6.
A good doctor knows that knowledge about medicine will continue to
change and that, therefore, formal professional training can never be
an_________ guide to good practice.
(A) adaptable
(B) absolute
(C) vary
(D) invaluable
(E) obsolescent
7.
A computer program can provide information in ways that force students to
participate in learning instead of being merely ______ of knowledge.
(A) creators
(B) consumers
(C) recipients
(D) custodians
(E) beneficiaries
8.
Once Renaissance painters discovered how to render volume and depth, they
were able to replace the medieval convention of symbolic, two-dimensional
space with the more ______ illusion of actual space.
(A) conventional
(B) abstract
(C) problematic
(D) fragmented
(E) realistic
答案：
Exercise5: D E A B E B C E