Exercise 1
1.
Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an
orderly sequence, their timing ______with regard to onset and duration.
(A) lasts
(B) varies
(C) falters
(D) accelerates
(E) dwindles
2.
The prospects of discovering new aspects of the life of a painter as
thoroughly studied as Vermeer are not, on the surface, ______
(A) encouraging
(B) daunting
(C) unpromising
(D) superficial
(E) challenging
3.
The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations
shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because
of this, can claim humanity’s longest continuous _____ of natural events.
(A) defiance
(B) documentation
(C) maintenance
(D) theory
(E) domination
4.
The current demand for quality in the schools seems to ask not for the
development of informed and active citizens, but for disciplined and productive
workers with abilities that contribute to civic life only _______, if at all.
(A) indirectly
(B) politically
(C) intellectually
(D) sensibly
(E) sequentially
5.
Nearly two-thirds of the country’s mushroom crop is produced by 160
growers in a single county, the greatest_________ growers anywhere.
(A) cause of
(B) agreement among
(C) indication of
(D) interaction between
(E) concentration of
6.
The development of containers, possibly made from bark or the skins of
animals, although this is a matter of _________, allowed the extensive sharing of
forage foods in prehistoric human societies.
(A) record
(B) fact
(C) degree
(D) importance
(E) conjecture
7.
Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by conscious
objectivity, science often operates through error, happy accidents, ______ and
persistence in spite of mistakes.
(A) facts
(B) controls
(C) hunches
(D) deductions
(E) calculations
8.
Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most
adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies
of evolution, however, have found no basis for this______view of selection.
(A) controversial
(B) pervasive
(C) unorthodox
(D) innovative
(E) renowned
答案：
Exercise1: B A B A E E C B