6.6. 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) invigoration (B) stability
(C) reproduction (D) variety
(E) deviation
27.4. 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.
(A) resistance to...domesticity (B) attention to...popularity
(C) familiarity with...scarcity (D) dissatisfaction with...profundity
(E) involvement with...privacy
圣经
旧约: 创世纪, 出埃及记
新约: 约翰福音, 马太福音
次经
伪经
塔木德
E34.7 The _________ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class Rousseau was all the more _________ because he showed so little respect for them.
(A) appreciation...deserved (B) suspicion...uncanny
(C) reserve...unexpected (D) anger...ironic
(E) deference...remarkable
E36.1 Because they had expected the spacecraft Voyager 2 to be able to gather data only about the planets Jupiter and Saturn, scientists were _________ the wealth of information it sent back from Neptune twelve years after leaving Earth.
(A) anxious for (B) concerned about
(C) confident in (D) elated by
(E) disappointed in
E40.5 Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have _________ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the Winnebago people.
(A) authenticated (B) acknowledged
(C) overlooked (D) defended
(E) described
E41.6 Because of its lack of theaters, the city came, ironically, to be viewed as an _________ theater town, and that reputation led entrepreneurs to believe that it would be _________ to build new theaters there.
(A) unimpressed...shrewd (B) untapped...pointless
(C) unappreciated...difficult (D) unlikely...appropriate
(E) unprofitable...risky
E47.1 What is most important to the monkeys in the sanctuary is that they are a group; this is so because primates are inveterately _______ and build their lives around each other.
(A) proprietary (B) stable (C) curious (D) social (E) independent
E48.2 Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such _________assumptions.
(A) fundamental (B) trivial (C) explicit (D) divergent (E) commonplace
E60.1 It is assumed that scientists will avoid making ______ claims about the results of their experiments because of the likelihood that they will be exposed when other researchers cannot ______ their findings.
(A) extravagant...dispute (B) fraudulent...duplicate
(C) verifiable...contradict (D) radical...contest
(E) hypothetical...evaluate
E71.5 Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more ______ aspects of a thing.
(A) stable (B) prevalent
(C) temporal (D) successive
(E) paradoxical
in that : 既然, 因为
: 表因果关系
E13.1 Hydrogen is the ______ element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.
(A) fundamental (B) expendable (C) lightest (D) final (E) steadiest
building blocks
建筑砌块
基础材料
hydrogen
Hydra
赫拉克勒斯
Heracles
hydra 水螅
