新G填空模拟题

新G填空模拟题
新G填空模拟题

Exercise 1

1. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is _____ other forms.

(A) segregated from

(B) parallel to

(C) dependent on

(D) overshadowed by

(E) mimicked by

2. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only ____ government records to see ____ evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields. BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A retain D questionable

B distribute E circumstantial

C consult F strong

3. Noting that few employees showed any ____ for complying with the corporation's new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that the acceptance of the regulations would be ____, at best.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A aptitude D negotiable

B enthusiasm E imminent

C aversion F grudging

4. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so

_____ Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in ____in the western Hemisphere.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A terrorized D abeyance

B corrupted E quarantine

C decimated F secret

5. Nature’s energy efficiency often ______ human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency______ the firefly’s system.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A inhibits D rivals

B outstrips E simulates

C determines F reproduces

6. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can ______ the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more ______ than we had thought.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A adopt D relevant

B dismiss E unconventional

C admire F elusive

7. Though extremely ______ about his own plans, the man allowed his associates no such privacy and was constantly ______ information about what they intended to do next.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A candid D eschewing

B fastidious E soliciting

C reticent F avoiding

Exercise 2

1. Heavily perfumed white flowers, such as gardenias, were favorites with collectors in the eighteenth century, when ______ was valued much more highly than it is today.

(A) scent

(B) beauty

(C) elegance

(D) color

(E) variety

2. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that ______ was very near the surface.

(A) seriousness

(B) confidence

(C) laughter

(D) poise

(E) determination

3. The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to ______ accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.

(A) insular

(B) investigative

(C) synoptic

(D) subjective

(E) sensational

4. During the opera’s most famous aria, the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed ______, without necessary relation to what had gone before.

(A) tedious

(B) melodious

(C) capricious

(D) compelling

(E) cautious

5. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater _______their efforts to build a progressive party than the ______ of the progressives already elected to the legislature.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A benefit from D success

B obstacle to E resistance

C praise for F reputation

6. No longer _____ by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual ____ for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A sustained D justifications

B antagonized E equivalents

C doubted F substitutes

7. Just as astrology was for centuries ____faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of______ the professional sciences.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A an accepted. D rebellion by

B an underground E defiance against

C an unknown F concern about

Exercise 3

1. Despite the fact that the two council members belonged to different political parties, they______ the issue of how to finance the town debt.

(A) complicated

(B) avoided

(C) attested to

(D) reported on

(E) agreed on

2. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged that the initial design is no longer______.

(A) relevant

(B) necessary

(C) attractive

(D) applicable

(E) discernible

3. Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pearlike figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ______ occupation.

(A) treacherous

(B) prestigious

(C) ill-paying

(D) illegitimate

(E) sedentary

4. Social tensions among adult factions can be ______by politics, but adolescents and children have no such ______for resolving their conflict with the

exclusive world of adults.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A intensified D attitude

B frustrated E justification

C adjusted F mechanism

5. Demonstrating a mastery of innuendo, he issued several ______ insults in the course of the evening’s conversation.

(A) blunt

(B) veiled

(C) fallacious

(D) boisterous

(E) embellished

6. Because outlaws were denied ____ under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal ____.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A propriety D impunity

B protection E discordance

C provisions F invalidity

7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look_____; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ______of natural beauty and human glory.

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A cheerful D transitoriness

B beautiful E abstractness

C luxuriant F immutability

Exercise 4

1. Since it is now ____ to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in ____ ways. BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A unprecedented D unique

B difficult E similar

C routine F congruent

2. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of _____ for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to _____ its own continental coastline.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A negligence D defend

B custom E reinforce

C expediency F expand

3. Despite the ______ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to

emphasize “pop culture” as a key for ______ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A pedantry D entangling

B skepticism E reinstating

C enthusiasm F deciphering

4. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having ____ the conflicting elements of her life.

(A) affirmed

(B) highlighted

(C) identified

(D) confined

(E) reconciled

5. Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their______.

(A) insight

(B) obstinacy

(C) introspection

(D) tolerance

(E) credulity

6. Broadway audiences have become inured to _____ and so _____to be pleased as to make their ready ovation meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A mediocrity D unlikely

B condescension E disinclined

C cleverness F desperate

7. Although he attempted repeatedly to ______ her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained ______ in her judgment. BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A remind D unfeigned

B convince E indulgent

C disabuse F adamant

Exercise 5

1. Psychology has slowly evolved into an ______scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.

(A) independent

(B) unusual

(C) outmoded

(D) uncontrolled

2. 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

3. The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was ______by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.

(A) banal

(B) heretical

(C) unproven

(D) complex

(E) superficial

4. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been______.

(A) irrelevant

(B) facetious

(C) mistaken

(D) critical

(E) insincere

5. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ______critical.

(A) perennially

(B) disturbingly

(C) uniquely

(D) archetypally

(E) captiously

6. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever consigning others, in the end, all his ______has only worked against him

(A) self-possession

(B) self-righteousness

(C) self-adulation

(D) self-sacrifice

(E) self-analysis

7. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world devoid of______.

(A) theatricality

(B) adversity

(D) polarity

(E) neutrality

Exercise 6

1. The spellings of many old English words have been ______in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.

(A) preserved

(B) shortened

(C) preempted

(D) revised

(E) improved

2. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ______later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.

(A) disdain for

(B) imitation of

(C) ambivalence about

(D) deference to

(E) influence on

3. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable

______through a complex network of producers and consumers.

(A) commodities

(B) dividends

(C) communications

(D) nutrients

(E) artifacts

4. The old man could not have been accused of______ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his ______her.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A lavishing D tolerance of

B stinting E antipathy for

C promising F adoration of

5. The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ______such illnesses.

(A) disguise

(B) impede

(C) constrain

(D) precipitate

(E) consummate

6. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of ______resulting from the carbon atom’s

ability to form an unending series of different molecules.

(A) deviation

(B) stability

(C) reproduction

(D) variety

(E) invigoration

7. That his intransigence in making decisions brooked no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of

____ their opinions in casual remarks.

(A) quashing

(B) recasting

(C) intimating

(D) instigating

(E) emending

Exercise 7

1. Dreams are ______in and of themselves, but, when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.

(A) uninformative

(B) startling

(C) harmless

(D) unregulated

(E) uncontrollable

2. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more

______than a similar article intended for ______use.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A colorfully D religious

B creatively E consecrated

C lavishly F everyday

3. The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively ______one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.

(A) adaptive

(B) selective

(C) inquisitive

(D) receptive

(E) intuitive

4. Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ______ this ______ view of selection. BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A basis for D pervasive

B precursors of E innovative

C criticisms of F renowned

5. Although Johnson ______great enthusiasm for his employees’ project, in reality his interest in the project was so ______as to be almost non-existent. BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A generated D redundant

B feigned E preemptive

C demanded F perfunctory

6. Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and wonderful ______feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as----that required deciphering.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A historical D an aberration

B technical E a hieroglyph

C visual F emulation

Exercise 8

1. Despite the apparently bewildering complexity of this procedure, the underlying principle is quite______.

(A) calculated

(B) elementary

(C) imaginary

(D) effective

(E) modern

2. In spite of the ____ nature of Scotland's terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe ____.

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A landlocked D grades

B mountainous E weather

C uncharted F slipperiness

3. While the delegate clearly sought to ______the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.

(A) substantiate

(B) dampen

(C) encourage

(D) elucidate

(E) rekindle

4. The reduction of noise has been approached in terms of ______its sources, but the alternative of canceling noise out by adding sound with the opposite wave pattern may be more useful in practice.

(A) diffusing

(B) tracking

(C) concealing

(D) isolating

(E) eliminating

5. While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly ______by their lively criticism.

(A) humiliated

(B) discomfited

(C) deluded

(D) disgraced

(E) tantalized

6. During the 1960’s assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to wide spread

______it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose ______was both imminent and welcome.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A fascination D ascent

B censure E restitution

C approval F dissolution

Exercise 9

1. As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than learning, an education in agriculture was______.

(A) vital

(B) difficult

(C) useless

(D) intellectual

(E)senseless

2. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from______, relating the

______of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A size D habitat

B classification E appearance

C structure F behavior

3. Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously______.

(A) meditative

(B) tepid

(C) categorical

(D) unoriginal

(E) insightful

4. 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.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A ignored D revealing

B admired E translating

C obscured F editing

5. In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a ______between technology, which is______, and the errant will of a depraved intellectual.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A conflict D dehumanizing

B parallel E unfettered

C fusion F beneficent

6. Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although

a hint of ______can boost sales of video clips very nicely.

(A) self-deprecation

(B) congeniality

(C) cynicism

(D) embarrassment

(E) self-doubt

7. Within the next decade, sophisticated telescopes now orbiting the Earth will determine whether the continents are really moving, _____ the incipient _____ among geologists about the validity of the theory of continental drift.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A forestalling D consensus

B engendering E rift

C escalating F speculation

Exercise 10

1. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ______further education.

(A) entitled to

(B) striving for

(C) deprived of

(D) uninterested in

(E) participating in

2. In order to ______her theory that the reactions are ______, the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A support D problematic

B comprehend E different

C evaluate F valuable

3. For centuries animals have been used as______ for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.

(A) benefactors

(B) companions

(C) examples

(D) precedents

(E) surrogates

4. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by______, the leaders of the movement have recently

______most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A coercion D issued

B participation E deliberated

C demonstration F repudiated

5. This final essay, its prevailing kindliness ______by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the----character of the author.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A marred D chivalrous

B illuminated E dichotomous

C exemplified F ruthless

6. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as ______thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.

(A) an adventurous

(B) a doctrinaire

(C) an eclectic

(D) a judicious

(E) a cynical

7. Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s _________.

(A) boldness

(B) influence

(C) responsibility

(D) moderation

(E) vulnerability

Exercise 11

1. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as ______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.

(A) reaction

(B) an addition

(C) an introduction

(D) an alternative

(E) a challenge

2. A major goal of law, to deter potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers, is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it ______to be a credible threat.

(A) tends

(B) appears

(C) ceases

(D) happens

(E) seems

3. Even though in today’s Soviet Union the______ the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little ______to practice their religion.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

D obligation

A dissidents

within

B leaders of E inclination

C traditionalists F latitude

4. New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly

______design features, generally overlooked in most analyses of public works projects or industrial machinery, actually mask social choices of profound significance.

(A) insignificant

(B) inexpensive

(C) innovative

(D) ingenious

(E) inopportune

5. 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.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A exercised D conscious of

B protected E superior to

C curtailed F subject to

6. When theories formerly considered to be ____ in their scientific objectivity are fond instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ____.

BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)

A disinterested D intellects

B callous E constructions

C verifiable F talents

Exercise 12

1. Although the minuet appeared simple, its______ steps had to be studied very carefully before they could be gracefully ______in public.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A minute D executed

B intricate E discussed

C rudimentary F restrained

2. Sponsors of the bill were ______because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law.

(A) unreliable

(B) well-intentioned

(C) persistent

(D) relieved

(E) detained

3. Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though______, remains a problem for United States foreign policy.

(A) deepening

(B) diminishing

(C) excessive

(D) debilitating

(E) unavoidable

4. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ______during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ______its violent nature.

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A gaseous D belied

B familiar E restrained

C explosive F moderated

5. Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an ______fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than a well-fed canary, safe and secure in its cage.

(A) unfriendly

(B) aging

(C) angry

(D) imperious

(E) unfettered

6. 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.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A efficacy D utilized by

B universality E superseded by

C risk F confused with

7. Doc umenting science’s influence on philosophy would be______, since it is

almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.

(A) elementary

(B) superfluous

(C) inappropriate

(D) difficult

(E) impossible

Exercise 13

1. Hydrogen is the ______element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

(A) steadiest

(B) expendable

(C) lightest

(D) final

(E) fundamental

2. The breathing spell provided by the ______arms shipments should give all the combatants a chance to reevaluate their positions.

(A) plethora of

(B) moratorium on

(C) reciprocation of

(D) concentration on

(E) development of

3. 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.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A overcame D gain

B released E altruism

C intimidated F addiction

4. It has been argued that politics as______, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.

(A) a theory

(B) an ideal

(C) a practice

(D) a contest

(E) an enigma

5. While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers—the incomprehension of her colleagues—octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to savor the triumph of her once ______scientific theories.

(A) innovative

(B) insignificant

(C) tentative

(D) authoritative

(E) heterodox

6. In failing to see that the justice’s pr onouncement merely ______previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk

______the scope of the justice’s judgment.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A overturned D limited

B qualified E nullified

C denied F overemphasized

7. Early critics of Emily Dickinson’s poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such______.

(A) astonishment

(B) cunning

(C) allusion

(D) innocence

(E) vexation

Exercise 14

1. Her ______should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.

(A) intemperance

(B) intolerance

(C) apprehension

(D) diffidence

(E) frugality

2. Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural___ doing so.

(A) aptitude for

(B) repugnance to

(C) interest in

(D) ignorance of

(E) reaction after

3. Without the psychiatrist’s promise of confidentiality, trust is ___ _and the patient’s communication limited; e ven though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires willingness to

______it.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A implicit D uphold

B assumed E apply

C impaired F sacrifice

4. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Na tions (1776) is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current relevance of Smith’s valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ______of present-day economics.

(A) outgrowths

(B) concerns

(C) precursors

(D) byproducts

(E) vestiges

5. While Parker is very outspoken on issues she cares about, she is not______; she concedes the ______of opposing arguments when they expose weaknesses inherent in her own.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A congenial D strength

B fanatical E restraint

C fickle F speciousness

6. Although the revelation that one of the contestants was a friend left the judge open to charges of lack of______, the judge remained adamant in her assertion that acquaintance did not necessarily imply______.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A detachment D indifference

B

E intolerance

disinterestedness

C prejudice F partiality

7. Exposure to sustained noise has been claimed to ______blood pressure regulation in human beings and, particularly, to increase hypertension, even though some researchers have obtained inconclusive results that ______the relationship.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A sharpen D assure

B impair E obscure

C increase F buttress

Exercise 15

1. Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the seafloor of the Bering Shelf a devastated appearance, these activities seem to be actually

______to the area, ______its productivity.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A superfluous D counterbalancing

B beneficial E diminishing

C destructive F enhancing

2. As long as nations cannot themselves accumulate enough physical power to dominate all others, they must depend on______.

(A) allies

(B) resources

(C) freedom

(D) education

(E) self-determination

3. The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her ______search for her daughter.

(A) extended

(B) agitated

(C) comprehensive

(D) motiveless

(E) heartless

4. The proponents of recombinant DNA research have decided to ______federal regulation of their work; they hope that by making this compromise they can forestall proposed state and local controls that might be even stiffer.

(A) protest

(B) institute

(C) deny

(D) encourage

(E) disregard

5. At several points in his discussion, Graves, in effect, ______evidence when it does not support his argument, tailoring it to his needs.

(A) addresses

(B) creates

(C) alters

(D) suppresses

(E) substitutes

6. Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to

______theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly______.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A inelegant D elusive

B wrongheaded E efficacious

C pragmatic F speculative

7. The ______questions that consistently structure the study of history must be distinguished from merely ______questions, which have their day and then pass into oblivion.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A recurrent D ephemeral

B philosophical E random

C perennial F discriminating

Exercise 16

1. Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of

a lack of______, is the first step in learning to be creative.

(A) elegance

(B) resolution

(C) goodness

(D) originality

(E) sympathy

2. The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly ______source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

(A) exploited

(B) quantifiable

(C) controversial

(D) inexhaustible

(E) remarkable

3. Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the

______of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ______before he acted.

BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A reproaches D promptings

B ridicule E eloquence

C balm F atonement

4. Charlotte Salomon’s biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by overpowering public events, retain their hold on the ______recording them.

(A) culture

(B) majority

(C) individual

(D) audience

(E) institution

5. Longdale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts ______a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be explained only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.

(A)Manufacture

(B) reveal

(C) exhibit

(D) share

(E) maintain

6. Scholars’ sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of “the state” at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly ______mode of study.

(A) thorough

(B) distinctive

(C) dependable

(D) scientific

(E) dynamic

Exercise 17

1. It was a war the queen and her more prudent counselors wished to ______if they could and were determined in any event to ______as long as possible. BLANK(i) BLANK(ii)

A provoke D postpone

B curtail E promote

C avoid F deny

2. As the first streamlined car, the Airflow represented a milestone in automotive development, and although its sales were______, it had an immense influence on automobile design.

(A) tolerable

(B) significant

(C) unimportant

(D) calculable

(E) disappointing

3. Walpole’s art collec tion was huge and fascinating, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who dismissed him as, at best, ______.

(A) insignificant

(B) worthwhile

(C) talented

(D) meager

(E) dangerous

4. Since the author frequently ______other scholars, his objection to disputes is not only irrelevant but also surprising.

(A)supports

(B) admires

(C) quotes

(D) neglects

(E) attacks

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