2016年
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1. Dramatic literature often ___ the history of a culture in that it takes as its subject matter the important events that have shaped and guided the culture.
(A) confounds
(B) repudiates
(C) recapitulates
(D) anticipates
(E) polarizes
2. Under ethical guideline recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct disease for which ___ treatments are unsatisfactory.
(A) similar
(B) most
(C) dangerous
(D) uncommon
(E) alternative
3. Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an “elementary particle,” but is ___ construction.
(A) a complicated
(B) a convoluted
(C) a distorted
(D) an amorphous
(E) an illusory
4. In some cultures the essence of magic is its traditional integrity; it can be efficient only if it has been ___ without loss from primeval times to the present practitioner.
(A) conventionalized
(B) realized
(C) transmitted
(D) manipulated
(E) aggrandized
5. The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to ___ its significance.
(A) underrate
(B) control
(C) overlook
(D) reassess
(E) praise
(F) eliminate
6. There is perhaps some truth in that waggish old definition of a scholar—a siren that calls attention to a fog without doing anything to ___ it.
(A) describe
(B) cause
(C) analyze
(D) dispel
(E) dissipate
(F) thicken
7. It was her view that the country’s problems had been ___ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
(A) ameliorated
(B) ascertained
(C) attacked
(D) exacerbated
(E) overlooked
(F) worsened
8. In Germany her startling powers as a novelist are widely ___ , but she is almost unknown in the English-speaking world because of the difficulties of ___ her eccentric prose.
9. As painted by Constable, the scene is not one of bucolic ___ ; rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual ___ .
10. Because medieval women’s public participation in spiritual life was not welcomed by the male establishment, a compensating ___ religious writings, inoffensive to the members of the establishment because of its ___ , became important for many women.