Exercise 4
1. Although Darwinism was a profoundly ______ world view, it was essentially
passive, since it prescribed no steps to be taken, no victories over nature to be
celebrated, no program of triumphs of be successively gained.
(A) limited
(B) repressive
(C) debatable
(D) innovative
(E) paradoxical
2. The concept of timelessness is paradoxical from the start, for adult
consciousness is ______ by the awareness of duration.
(A) intrigued
(B) repelled
(C) measured
(D) accelerated
(E) permeated
3. There are simply no ______ for buying stock in certain industries since
rapidly changing environmental restrictions will make a profitable return on any
investment very unlikely.
(A) incentives
(B) arrangements
(C) explanations
(D) conditions
(E) procedures
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.
The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were
almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ______ the
propensity to abuse them.
(A) negates
(B) controls
(C) engenders
(D) tempers
(E) obviates
6.
If duty is the natural outgrowth of one’s ______the course of future events,
then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or
not.
(A) understanding of
(B) control over
(C) involvement in
(D) preoccupation with
(E) responsibility for
7.
Before the Second World War, academics still questioned whether the body
of literature produced in the United States truly constituted a _________
literature, or whether such literature was only a provincial branch of English
literature.
(A) local
(B) national
(C) historical
(D) good
(E) meaningful
8.
The sea was not an ________the diffusion of the windmill; on the contrary,
while the concept of the new invention passed quickly from seaport to seaport, it
made little headway inland.
(A) element in
(B) issue in
(C) aid to
(D) obstacle to
(E) promotion of
答案：
Exercise4: D E A E C B B D
