Exercise 3
1.
Although Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her affinity with the desert
landscape, her paintings of urban subjects ______ her longtime residency in New
York City.
(A) condemn
(B) obfuscate
(C) attest to
(D) conflict with
(E) contend with
2.
Because the high seriousness of their narratives resulted in part from their
metaphysics, Southern writers were praised for their ______ bent.
(A) technical
(B) discursive
(C) hedonistic
(D) philosophical
(E) scientific
3.
Honeybees tend to be more ______ than earth bees: the former, unlike the
latter, search for food together and signal their individual findings to one
another.
(A) insular
(B) aggressive
(C) differentiated
(D) mobile
(E) social
4.
Even though the survey was designated as an interdisciplinary course, it
involved no real ______ of subject matter.
(A) encapsulation
(B) organization
(C) synthesis
(D) discussion
(E) verification
5. Her lecture gave a sense of how empty the universe is, in spite of the ______
number of stars within it.
(A) diminishing
(B) varying
(C) enormous
(D) unusual
(E) limited
6. Unlike a judge, who must act alone, a jury discusses a case and then reaches
its decision as a group, thus minimizing the effect of ______ bias.
(A) legal
(B) professional
(C) individual
(D) unexpected
(E) unarticulated
7. Certainly Murray's preoccupation with the task of editing the Oxford English
Dictionary begot a kind of monomania, but it must be regarded as a ______ or at
least an innocuous one.
(A) tame
(B) tendentious
(C) meretricious
(D) beneficent
(E) sincere
8. Even though six players had been injured, the coach announced to the
assembled reporters that the team would ______ the championship.
(A) ignore
(B) win
(C) overcome
(D) demand
(E) refuse
答案：
Exercise3: C D E C C C D B