1. The children’s ______ natures were in sharp contrast to the even-tempered dispositions of their
parents.
A. mercurial
B. blithe
C. phlegmatic
D. apathetic
E. cunning
2. Having regarded Marcus relationship to their boss as entirely _____, Jo was flabbergasted when Marcus publicly made clear his objections to some changes the boss was introducing.
A. professional
B. sycophantic
C. prosaic
D. dissident
E. collegial
3. My grandma has a strong belief in all things _____: she insists, for example, that the house in which she lived as a child was haunted.
A. clamorous
B. invidious
C. numinous
D. empirical
E. sonorous
双空题
1. In the discussions on international patent law, many (i)______ issues will probably be pushed far into the future. This cautious approach makes diplomatic sense, since attempts over the past 15 years to reach international agreements on patents have (ii)______ just such sensitive issues.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. contentious D. approached
B. stimulating E. articulated
C. subjective F. foundered on
2. As cheaper imports drove most California potteries out of business during the 1950s, one
company (i)______. The substantial size and weight of the specialized products produced by
Architectural Pottery helped (ii)______ the company, because it was uneconomical for foreign
companies to ship similarly large objects to California.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. stagnated D. transform
B. diversified E. insulate
C. flourished F. finance
3. While acknowledging behaviors the Prime Minster took in order to remain in office were
(i)_____, some politicians nevertheless believed this small amount of (ii)_____ was justified to
keep reforming government in office.
A. unethical D. skullduggery
B. impractical E. indolence
C. quixotic F. incivility
4. There has been great enthusiasm in the United States for reducing fossil fuel dependence by
increasing production of biofuels from crops such as corn and switchgrass, but this (i)_____ about
biofuels potential should be (ii)_____ by a realistic appraisal of the costs and challenges of biofuel
production.
A. forbearance D. tempered
B. exuberance E. delineated
C. obduracy F. exacerbated
句子等价题(六选二)
1. The ______ nature of the approval process for new drugs suggests that incentives to promote
more expeditious decision making may be necessary.
A. pecuniary
B. commercial
C. arbitrary
D. sluggish
E. capricious
F. dilatory
2. Anne Carson’s book Nax is, very deliberately, ______ literary object—the opposite of an E-reader,
which is designed to vanish in your palm as you read on a train.
A. an evanescent
B. a cumbersome
C. an immutable
D. an unwieldy
E. an ephemeral
F. a flexible
3. Peoples ‘decisions about childbearing depend on innumerable personal considerations and societal factors, yet even knowing this, demographers are often ______: their projections of birth rates frequently turn out to be embarrassingly at odds with reality.
A. sanguine
B. flummoxed
C. inconsistent
D. overconfident
E. heartened
F. confounded
4. In matters of taste, the art patron and collector Peggy Guggenheim was _____, she was for the
strangest, the most surprising, the most satisfying, the best, the unique.
A. a neophyte
B. a novice
C. a realist
D. an extremist
E. a pragmatist
F. a zealot
5. Miller reminded his clients that labor relationship are inherently _____; the interests of
business owners are diametrically opposed to those of employees.
A. adversarial
B. exploitative
C. mercenary
D. antagonistic
E. variable
F. changeable
6. The concert hall’s suspended ceiling is two-inch-thick plaster that reflects low-frequency sound
energy; similarly, all wall surfaces are angled and shaped to _____ sound from the stage
throughout the audience area.
A. diffuse
B. amplify
C. spread
D. dampen
E. eclipse
F. deaden
7. Scientists should hope the faults in their theories will be _____ their peers since the refutation
of one hypothesis can free its originator to develop a better one.
A. discerned by
B. disregarded by
C. discovered by
D. ignored by
E. opaque to
F. inspiring to
8. After rising continuously over the summer, commodity prices fell, leaving analyst wondering
whether the downward trend is a turning point or merely a _____ before demand picks up in the
winter months.
A. spike
B. upsurge
C. harbinger
D. portent
E. lull
F. respite
