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　　1. It is refreshing to read a bookabout our planet by an author who does not allowfacts to be (i) __________by politics: well aware of the politicaldisputes about theeffects of humanactivities on climate and biodiversity, this author does not permitthem to (ii) _________his comprehensive description ofwhat we know about ourbiosphere. Heemphasizes the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness ofour observations, and the (iii) _________, callingattention to the many aspects ofplanetaryevolution that must be better understood before we can accuratelydiagnose the condition of our planet.

　　AEI

　　2. Vainand prone to violence, Caravaggio could not handle success: the more his (i)__________as an artist increased,the more (ii) ___________his life became.

　　CD

　　3. Inparts of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so _________ thatyoucan walk off the coast and not knowyou are over the hidden sea.

　　B

　　4. Although it doescontain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterizethe work as__________.

　　CF

　　5. It was her view that thecountry ’s problems had been_______by foreigntechnocrats, so that to ask for such assistance againwould be counterproductive.

　　DF

　　Easy

　　6. This composer has never courtedpopularity: her rugged modernism seems todefy rather than to _________ the audience.

　　C

　　7. The sight of a single actorportraying several characters in the same scene is nolonger a shock to the average moviegoer, such special-effectstrickery havingbecome so________.

　　D

　　8. Early studies often concludedthat the public was _________ the propagandisticinfluence of mass communications, but one recent study indicatesthat, on thecontrary, masscommunications seldom produce marked changes in socialattitudes or actions.

　　C

　　9. The figure-skating pair’s convincing victory last week was particularly (i)_________ to their rivals, who were in peak form andcomplained privately aboutthe judging.That the pair won when their rivals were (ii) _________ too is alsoimpressive.

　　BD

　　10. In his initial works, the play wright made physical disease (i)________ action;from this, hisearly critics inferred that he had a predilection for focusing on (ii)_________ subject matter.

　　AF
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　　11. We have y et to (i) ________ the assessment of Canada’s biodiversity . Most of thevertebrates have been assessed, but our challenge will be theassessment ofinvertebratesand plants. This task is (ii) _________ not only because of the highnumber of species, but also because of the diversity,each species requiring adifferentapproach.

　　BF

　　12. The company’s efforts toimprove safety were apparently (i) _________, at leastaccording to the company’s own data,which showed that the (ii) _________incidentswith the potential to cause a serious accident declined significantly.Nevertheless, independent analysts argue that thosestatistics are (iii) _________.Theseanalysts maintain that the company has consistently underestimated boththe probability and the likely effects of accidents inthe sensitive and poorlyunderstoodenvironment in which the company is operating.

　　BDG

　　13. Researchers trying to make it possible to trace counterfeitdocuments to theprinter thatproduced them are (i) _________ the fact that the rotating drums andmirrors inside laser printers are imperfect devicesthat leave unique patterns ofbanding intheir output. Although these patterns are (ii) _________ to the nakedeye, they can be (iii) _________ and analyzed bycomputer programs that theresearchershave spent the past y ear devising.

　　ADG

　　14. In her startlingly original writing, she went further than any othertwentieth-centuryauthor in English (perhaps in any language) in (i) _________literarylanguage and form, (ii) _________stylistic conventions, and (iii) _________ arich and diverse structure of meaning.

　　ADI

　　Medium

　　15. The media once portrayed the governor as anything but ineffective;they now,however, make her out to be the epitomeof _________.

　　A

　　16. For most of the first half of the nineteenth century, science at theuniversity wasin _________state, despite the presence of numerous luminaries.

　　B

　　17. In a recent history of the Renaissance, by showing how the artisticefflorescenceof that era was(i) _________ linked to its commercial vitality , Jardinedemonstrated that the spirit of acquisitiveness may be(ii) _________ that ofculturalcreativity .

　　BE

　　18. The setting in which the concert took place (i) _______: the group’s performancewas elegantand polished, but the sound, which seeped across the cold, unresonanthigh school auditorium, was oddly (ii) _________, giventhe energy the playersseemed to beputting into it.

　　AE

　　19. The governor has long been obsessed with excising the media from thepoliticianpublicrelationship. That’s been theunifying aim of all her seeminglydisconnectedventures since entering public life: a determination to (i) _________,and eventually (ii) _________, the media’s hold on political communication.

　　BF

　　20. Female labor was essential to the growth of eighteenth-centuryEuropean textileindustries, yetit remains difficult to (i) _________. Despite significant (ii)_________ in research about women, the role of femalelabor remains the singlemost glaringomission in most economic analyses of the history of Europeanindustrialization. Women far outnumbered men as workersin the textile industries,yet wageindices and discussions of growth, cost of living, and the like (iii)_________ about the male labor force.

　　ADG
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　　21. It is a sad but just indictment of some high school historytextbooks that theyfrequentlyreport as (i) _________ claims that historians hotly debate or that areeven completely (ii) _________ by (iii) _________primary sources.

　　AFI

　　22. The reason minimum temperatures are going up more rapidly thanmaximumsmay involve cloud cover and evaporativecooling. Clouds tend to keep the dayscooler byreflecting sunlight, and the nights warmer by (i) _________ loss of heatfrom Earth’s surface. Greateramounts of moisture in the soil from additionalprecipitation and cloudiness (ii) _________ the day time temperatureincreasesbecause part of the solar energy is(iii) _________ the evaporation of thatmoisture.

　　AFI

　　Hard

　　23. In searching for norms in the sense of authoritative standards ofwhat ought to be,rather than inthe sense of what is average and thus can be considered normal,normative ethics aims to ________.

　　D

　　24. When she first came to France from Bulgaria, she was hardly the_________student she later made herself out tobe, since she had access to considerablefamily wealth.

　　C

　　25. Researchers have observed chimpanzees feigning injury in order toinfluenceother members of the group, thusshowing that the capacity to _________ is notuniquely human.

　　D

　　26. Instant celebrity is often (i) _________ asset because if there isno (ii) _________to interest thepublic-no stage or screen triumphs, nointeresting books, no heroicexploits-people quickly become bored.

　　AF

　　27. At their best, (i) _________ book reviews are written in defense ofvalue and inthe tacit hopethat the author, having had his or her (ii) _________ pointed out,might secretly agree that the book could be improved.

　　BE

　　28. The gaps in existing accounts of the play wright’s life are not(i) _________, sincemuch of thedocumentary evidence on which historians have relied is (ii)________.

　　AD

　　29. That today ’s students ofAmerican culture tend to (i) _________ classical music isunderstandable. In our own time, America’s musical high culture has degeneratedinto a formulaic entertainment divorced from the contemporarymoment. Thus,to miss out onwhat our orchestras are up to is not to (ii) _________ much. In thelate Gilded Age, however, music was widely esteemed asthe “queen of the arts.”Classical music was in its American heyday , (iii) _________ theculture at large.

　　CDI

　　30. The serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularlycredited withhaving renderedobsolete a once-dominant view that popular culture is inherentlyinferior to high art. Yet this alteration of attitudesmay be somewhat (i)_________.Although it is now academically respectable to analyze popularculture, the fact that many intellectuals feelcompelled to rationalize their own (ii)_________ action movies or mass-market fiction reveals, perhapsunwittingly ,their continued(iii) _________ the old hierarchy of high and low culture.

　　CDH
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　　Easy

　　31. Retrofitted with stabilizingdevices, some of which _______ its aesthetics, thebridge has been reopened, no longer prone to excessive swaying butnot quite thebreathtakingstructure it originally was.

　　AF

　　32. Although cosmic objects havestruck Earth since the plane’s veryformation,humanity has only recently become awareof these events: two centuries ago theidea thatobjects orbiting the Sun could collide with Earth was widely ________.

　　BF

　　33. That people _______ the musicalfeatures of birdsongs suggests that despite thevast evolutionary gulf between birds and mammals, songbirds andhumans sharesome commonauditory perceptual abilities.

　　BE

　　34. Torpey’s study has turned a seemingly __________ topic, the passport, intoafascinating one by making an original contributionto the sociology of the state.

　　BE

　　35. Britain is attractive toworldwide advertisers because it _________ market, sothere is no need to tailor advertisements for different parts of thecountry.

　　DE

　　Medium

　　36. The band’s long-standing strategy of laying leisurely explorations atop asteadyfunk beat has proven to be surprisingly__________: a concert in Cologne from1972 soundsas if it could have taken place today.

　　BC

　　37. Factory production made anabsence of imperfections so blandly commonplacethat the __________ of hand-produced goods were now cherished wheretheyonce might have been shunned.

　　EF

　　38. Through its state associations,the American Medical Association controlled whocould become a physician and dominated __________ professions likenursingand occupational therapy.

　　CD

　　39. In a strong indication of theway the entire party is __________ the candidate with moderate credentials, the outspokenly conservative former may or of amajorcity has promised to raise asubstantial amount of money for the candidate’scampaign.

　　AF

　　40. Mr. Hirsch say s he will aim topreserve the foundation’s support of__________thinkers, individuals who are goingagainst the trends in a field or an acknowledgedset of opinions.

　　AD
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　　41. In France cultural subsidiesare __________: producers of just about any filmcan get an advance from the government against box-office receipts,even thoughmost such loansare never fully repaid.

　　AF

　　42. The problem of avoidingduplicate names—such as for Internet domain namesorfor e-mail accounts—is particularly __________ when the name has to fit into aformat that allows only a finite number of possibilities.

　　BD

　　43. At nearly 450 pages, the novelis __________: the author does not often resist thetemptation to finish off a chapter, section, or even paragraph withsomeunnecessary flourish.

　　CE

　　Hard

　　44. If researchers can determineexactly what is wrong with people who suffer fromthis condition, they may be able to suggest drug therapies or othertreatments thatcould __________the effects of the damage.

　　AE

　　45. Some analysts worry aboutconsumers’ perception that the electronicsindustry isalways on theverge of major breakthroughs; that perception could hurt theindustry by making consumers reluctant to buy productsthey believe will soon be__________ .

　　CF

　　46. After people began to make thetransition from gathering food to producing food,human societies followed markedly __________ courses; some adoptedherding,others took to tillage, and stillothers stuck to foraging.

　　AE

　　47. In TheSimple Soybean, the author is much less restrainedin his enthusiasm for thebean’s medical efficacy than he is in his technical writings, but hestill cautionsagainst treatingsoy as a __________.

　　DE

　　48. Parkin’s characterization of the movement as neoscholastic is too__________ tobe acceptedwithout further investigation.

　　AC

　　49. A recent study suggests thatvitamin E supplements, despite widespread belief intheir__________, are no better than sugar pills for delaying theonset of thedegenerativedisease.

　　DF

　　50. Despite her relaxed andflexible sty le, Ms. de la Fressange is __________businesswoman who knows how to market her brand: herself.

　　CE
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　　51. The name of the Sloane MatthewLibrary has long been ________; even longtimecity residents assume it is a run-of-the-mill library, neversuspecting what arttreasures itcontains.

　　C

　　52. Although economic growth hasconventionally been viewed as the ________ forpoverty in underdeveloped regions, this prescription’s negative environmental sideeffects are becoming a concern.

　　C

　　53. Even as the economy struggled,the secretary stood by his ________ long-termoutlook, saying that technology was allowing businesses to makedeep-rootedimprovements in theirproductivity, the best indicator of an economy’s ability togrow.

　　B

　　54. The villas and compounds thatproliferated during the building boom of the 1990swere (i) ________, far too (ii) ________ for people of averagemeans.

　　AE

　　55. The governor has considerablepolitical talents, but as a speaker he is far less (i)________ than his opponent, whose oratorical skills are (ii)________.

　　AF

　　56. There is no point in combingthrough the director’s work forhints of ideologicalsignificance.It is unnecessary : his ideology —Marxist,anti-imperialist, alignedwith theperceived interests of the powerless and the marginal—is the (i)________ ofhis films. The clarity and force of that ideology are considerable, butits (ii) ________ sometimes bothers critics, who oftenscold the director forlacking (iii)________.

　　BDH

　　57. As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling, what eventuallybecame (i) ________ was that the company had been concocting “value” out ofthin air, thanks not to the trading strategies it promoted asvisionary but to financial(ii) ________that turned a once-solid entity into the most notorious (iii) ________in an era of corporate scandals.

 

　　BFI

　　58. Kept (i) ________ by cloyingcommercial radio and clueless record executives,the American popular music scene has frequently depended on citiesat the edgesof the culturalmap to provide a much-needed shot of (ii) ________ Themomentary (iii) ________ what the next big thing is seems to comeout ofnowhere—as if someone blows a whistle only those in the know can hear, andsuddenly record executives and journalists are crawlingall over what hadpreviously beenan obscure locale.

　　ADG

　　59. Family photos of the authorsuggest that she was _______ child: she seemed towear a permanent frown.

　　AC

　　60. Biologists agree that snakesdescended from lizards, but exactly where this firsthappened has been a matter of debate since the 1800s, when two_______theories emerged.

　　BE
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　　61. A particular bacterium that hasnever encountered a particular virus will usually succumb to it, a _______ that may, surprisingly, be beneficial tothe colony inwhich thebacterium lives.

　　AC

　　62. The remarkable thing about themay oral race, in retrospect, is that so many people wanted the job of managing a municipality so obviously about to_______.

　　BC

　　63. It is a testimony to Roth’s _______ that he could not quite bring himself to write abook as dull and flat as his original conception forhis novel Everyman seemed todemand.

 

　　CF

　　64. By recognizing commonalitiesamong all the major political parties and bypromoting a collaborative decision-making process, the primeminister has madegood on hispromise to cultivate a leadership sty le that emphasizes _______.

　　D

　　65. In his unexpurgatedautobiography, Mark Twain commented freely on the flawsand foibles of his country, making some observations so _______ thathis heirs andeditors fearedthey would damage Twain’s reputationif not withheld.

　　B

　　66. That the artist chose to remainin his hometown does not mean that he remained(i) _______; on the contrary, he (ii) _______ the internationalartistic movementsof his day.

　　AF

　　67. An innovation of theeighteenth-century cookbook writer Mary Cole was that inher work she (i) _______ the earlier books from whichher recipes were drawn.Even in thosenumerous instances in which she had collated into a single version,which she could have called her own, the recipes ofseveral earlier writers, she(ii) _______them.

　　CD

　　68. The lizards snapped up insectsthat are so (i)_______ that other potential predatorsavoid them. Among the lizards’ prey weresome beetles that they initially (ii)_______because the insects were spraying their hot, irritant defense chemical atthe time. Yet even these produced no apparent illeffects, since the lizards, havingeaten,proceeded on their way (iii) _______ enough.

　　CEI

　　69. When the normally (i) _______film director was interviewed, it was only the herflow of words. Her (iii) on topic of her next movie that (ii)_______ that subjectsuggestedthat it was an unwelcome one.

　　BEG

　　70. Bureaucrats tend to (i) _______.So it is surprising that the European Commission isproposing to hand back some of its antitrust powers tonational governments. Sucha willingnessto (ii) _______ power is quite (iii) _______ Perhaps the commission,so often a by word for meddling, bungling, and evencorruption, is starting to put itshouse inorder following the forced resignation of the previous lot ofcommissioners last y ear.

　　BDH
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　　71. In film studies—a visually oriented discipline that is _______ backlit close-ups,eye line matches, and voyeuristic gazes—scholars have often been tone-deaf tothe sounds of music.

　　AB

　　72. Consumers may think thatgenetic engineering of foods is something new, buthumans have been modifying plants for ages; the _______ is not thatnew genesare introduced but that genes can nowbe moved from one species to another.

　　AD

　　73. Although the compound is abundantin the environment at large, its presence intheair is not _______; only in the form of underwater sediment does it causedamage.

　　CE

　　74. Deacon attempts what seemsimpossible: a book rich in scientific insights, in ademanding discipline, that nevertheless is accessible to ________.

　　CF

　　75. Despite relying on thewell-to-do for commissions, the portrait painter wasno________: he depicted the character of those he painted as heperceived it.

　　CD

　　76. While not _________ thearguments in favor of the proposal for new highwayconstruction, the governor nevertheless decided to veto theproposal.

　　E

　　77. The children’s _________ natures were in sharp contrast to the even-tempereddispositions of their parents.

　　A

　　78. The first major exhibits ofmodern art left the public (i) ________, its (ii)_________ intensified by the response of art critics, who stooped tovituperation toexpress theirdisgust with the new art.

　　AD

　　79. While many outside the companyattributed the company’s success to itspresident’s(i) _________,insiders realized that this success owed more to thepresident’sinflexibility than to any (ii) _________ that the president might besupposed to have displayed.

　　CF

　　80. With the rate of technological(i) _________ accelerating—many peoplenowconsider a personal computer (ii)_________ after three y ears—the questionofhow to properly dispose of oldequipment is no small matter.

　　CD
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　　81. In the nineteenth century the(i) _________ advanced mechanical printingtechniques made it possible for newspaper owners to print newspaperscheaplyand in mass quantities, but unlike manyother mechanized industries, wheremachines (ii)_________ workers, the new printing machines required trainedcompositors to run them, thereby (iii) _________ thedemand for skilled printinglabor.

　　ADI

　　82. It may be that a kind ofpendulum is built into United States politics: if a particularinterest group scores a major victory , its supporters(i) ________ and itsadversaries(ii)_______ their efforts, so that the victory is soon (iii) _________.

　　BEG

　　83. If big sums are to be spent oncleaning up environmental disasters, it is better tospend them on unglamorous but _________ problems such as unsanitarywater inThird World countries.

　　CF

　　84. The process of establishing aliterary canon is seen by some as, in part, anattempt by certain scholars to make their own labors central and torelegate thework of othersto _________ status.

　　BF

　　85. The mayor is more ideologicallyconsistent than is widely believed: her long-termcommitment totax reform, for example, is not indicative of ________.

　　BD

　　86. At first glance Watkins Park,with its meandering stream and its thicket ofgreenery, seems _________; however, upon closer inspection one isquicklyreminded that the park is in the middleof a major city .

　　AE

　　87. Although relying on much of therecent scholarship on the bison, Lott’s book is adistinctly _________ and even idiosyncratic contributionto the field.

　　BC

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