今天大全【Section34】，备考
Section 34
1. The science community’s perennial lament over inadequate budgets has come to seem increasingly ______, because government support for science and engineering has never been greater.
A. vital
B. hopeless
C. poignant
D. condescending
E. disingenuous
2. Despite the neighborhood’s lingering reputation for ______, it has in fact become increasingly varied in its architecture and demographics.
A. boisterousness
B. unpretentious
C. idiosyncrasy
D. accessibility
E. homogeneity
3. The meandering journey across the soundscape of Internet can be (i)______. Listening to music in this medium often generates anxiety fulfillment: no sooner has one experience begun then the thought of what else is out there intrudes. Putting an old fashioned disk and letting it paly to the end restores a measure of (ii)_______.
Blank (i)
A. liberating
B. taxing
C. educational
Blank (ii)
D. choice
E. boredom
F. sanity
4. Many scholars have argued that the United States Supreme Court usually (i)________ public opinion in its decisions because it fears that it will (ii)________ if does not, when it does depart from public opinion, it whips up political maelstroms.
Blank (i)
A. comment on
B. hews on
C. overrides
Blank (ii)
D. lose public support
E. mitigate public anger
F. create public indifference
5. In a view of seventeen studies from 2008, Trudeau and Shephard concluded that reserving up to an hour a day for (i)________ in school curricula does not (ii)________ academic achievement. In fact, they noted that more exercise often (iii)________ school performance, despite the time it took away from reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Blank (i)
A. physical activity
B. leisure time
C. open study
Blank (ii)
D. contribute to
E. detract from
F. correlate with
Blank (iii)
G. diminished
H. augmented
I. counteracted
6. Anna Gavalda’s fiction is appealing largely because of her writing styles, which is certainly (i)______. It is heavy on dialogue (and light on embellishment) features very short sections (of often only a few sentence) in rapid succession, and in general favors an adorned directness. Not surprisingly, this style works better in short----story form than in novels, and the story collection I Wish someone Were Waiting for Me somewhere (ii)______ her attempt to (iii)______ it in a novel, as in, for example,
Someone I loved.
Blank (i)
A. annoying
B. distinctive
C. convoluted
Blank (ii)
D. is thought to precede
E. fail in comparison with
F. impresses considerably more than
Blank (iii)
G. undermine
H. sustain
I. reject
7. The uniquely human ability to rethink and revise our social arrangements is a weird blessing, allowing us to create a systems that are as likely to ________ us as to liberate us.
A. cheer
B. shackle
C. admonish
D. educate
E. stifle
F. enliven
8. Because movie studios, under pressure to generate international sales, have favored big-budget pictures with fantasy plots, the representation of everyday domestic life has largely been ________ other media, such as television and literature.
A. left to
B. cede to
C. ascribed to
D. attributed to
E. substitute for
F. replaced with
9. The life of secret agent is dangerous enough, but the life of a double agent is infinitely more ______: a single slip on second and agent crash to destruction.
A. arduous
B. precarious
C. clandestine
D. perilous
E. covert
F. exhilarating
10. Nature causes nerves to die off and muscles to weaken, but by regular exercising, muscles fibers can ________ the decline by increasing the strength of muscles you have left.
A. speed up
B. stave off
C. forestall
D. facilitate
E. assist
F. exploit
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