2016年
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【题目】
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 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
3. It is difficult to distinguish between the things that charismatic figures do ___ and those that are carefully contrived for effect.
(A) formally
(B) publicly
(C) prolifically
(D) spontaneously
(E) willfully
4. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could be an effective ___ to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of employers with poor safety records.
(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive
5. One virus strain that may help gene therapists cure genetic brain diseases can enter the peripheral nervous system and travel to the brain, ___ the need to inject the therapeutic virus directly into the brain.
(A) suggesting
(B) intensifying
(C) elucidating
(D) satisfying
(E) obviating
(F) avoiding
6. 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
(F) ripeness
7. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people attain mental health, seems to be looking for ___ answers: a way to close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.
(A) temporary
(B) confused
(C) definitive
(D) personal
(E) derivative
(F) conclusive
8. Individual freedom of thought should be ___ more absolutely than individual freedom of action, given that the latter, though also desirable, must be ___ the limits imposed by the rights and freedom of others.
9. To test the ___ of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply investigate the extent to which terms from the one may, without forcing, be ___ the other.
10. The wonder of De Quincey is that although opium dominated his life, it never ___ him; indeed, he turned its use to ___ when he published the story of its influence in the London Magazine.