对于
The architects of New York's early skyscrapers, hinting
here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-
century palace, sought to legitimize the city's social
strivings by ----- a history the city did not truly -----.
revealing.. deserve
displaying.. desire
evoking.. possess
preserving.. experience
flouting.. believe
答案：(C)
skyscaper: n.摩天大楼
hint(at): v.暗示，示意
cathedral: n.大教堂
legitimize: v.1、使合法 2、证明...为有理(或正当)
social strivings: n.社会追求
evoke: v.唤起，使人联想起
flout: v.藐视，蔑视，嘲讽
纽约的早期摩天大楼的建筑师们，这儿暗示某座十二世纪的大教堂，那儿暗示一处
十五世纪的宫殿，竭力通过使人隐约联想起某种这座城市并不真正拥有的历史，试图使
该城市的社会奋斗得以显得顺理成章
Actual events in the history of life on Earth are
accidental in that any outcome embodies just one -----
among millions; yet each outcome can be ----- interpreted.
coincidence.. randomly
relationship.. predictably
fact.. readily
happening.. uniquely
possibility.. rationally
答案：(E)
Although some of her fellow scientists ------- the
unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found
innovative, unanimous praise GREeted her experimental
results: at once pioneering and -------.
ignored.. untrustworthy
complimented.. foreseeable
welcomed.. mundane
decried.. unexceptionable
attacked.. inconclusive
答案：(D)
unorthodox: a.非正统的，异端的，叛经离道的
methodology: n.1、(科学的)一套方法 2、方法论，方法学龄前 3、教学法
unanimous: a.全体一致的，无异议的
at once...and...: conj.既...又...，不仅...而且...
pioneering: a.1、拓荒者的，开拓者的 2、先驱的，开拓性的，拓荒时期的
compliment: v.称赞，恭维，祝贺
foreseeable: a.可预见到的
mundane: a.1、尘世的，世俗的确良 2、单调的，平凡的
decry: v.1、反对，遣责 2、诋毁
unexceptionable: a.无懈可击的，无可指谪的，完美无缺的(exception 作名词时意为
“反对，异议”，如take exception to，对...表示异议)
尽管她的某些科学家同僚们极力底毁那套在别人看来不乏创新意义的非正统实验
方法论，但是，人们对她的实验结果即报以普遍的赞誉，既不乏开拓性，又无懈可击。