第一部分 51道复原题
上海XDF 张俊
1. ''RESIGNATION'', an English word the French novelist Christian Oster would no doubt appreciate, prents an elegant paradox: in one n, it indicates a bold step, a cleaving of onelf from an attachment grown onerous; in another, it's the height of ___, an acquiescence to fate.
A. maturity
B. desperation
C. passivity
D. sham
E. fissure
2. Sylvester takes on a solemn and sagacious persona, the expression of his commitment to a deliberate conversation to a disconcerting and hypnotic pace, but this ____ could be intimidating.
A. solicitude
B. banality
C. gravitas
D. ingénue
E. lassitude
3. The mid-20th century is sometimes remembered as an era of cozy political ------, but in fact the corridors of power echoed then with starkly disparate voices.
A. connsus
B. variant
C. chaos
D. accord
E. arcade
F. tranquility
4. Scientist worries if the connection between global warming and the rising of a level continues, then this simultaneity ----- bigger changes in the underlying dynamics of our climate.
A. presages
B. exacerbates
C. averts
D. obscures
E. portends
F. forestalls
5. The Order applies to all Federal agency who actions may affect the status of invasive species and requires agencies to identify such actions and to the extent practicable and permitted by law, and since invasive species verely reduce the number of native species and even ------ their existence, the agency has determined and made public its determination that the benefits of such actions clearly outweigh the potential harm caud by invasive species; and that all feasible and ------ measures to ------ risk of harm of the introduction of invasive species will be taken in conjunction with the actions.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
A preclude | D braggart | G counterbalance |
B diminish | E prudent | H minimize |
C escalate | F mawkish | I remedy |
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6. Mark Messina’s book The Simple Soybean and Your Health exudes recognition much less unrestrained in the description of the soy's medical efficiency than its versatility, but the author’s cautions arrests soy to be a ------.
A. placebo
B. panacea
C. solitude
D. cure-all
E. effectuality
F. efficacy
7. Even the man was rerved in his speech, he thoroughly understood his mother, which made him far from ----- as people usually thought.
A. sophisticated
B. simple
C. ntentious
D. ingenuous
E. comprehensive
8. Nevertheless, the claim—advocated by many experts—that a child acts more like a ‘grammatical genius’ than an empty slate, a ‘tabula rasa’, ready to be written on and forged by experience, ems ------ to tho who think of language as the zenith of the human intellect and who think of instincts as brute impuls that compel furry or feathered zombies to build a dam or up and fly south.
A. consonance
B. jarring
C. tangent
D. prehensile
E. manifest
9. Lar has been widely utilized in many industries such as Packaging Industry, CD player, sort of commonplace articles; however, the ------ of lar doesn’t mean lar can only be ud in ------ ways.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A sporadic usage | D pedestrian |
B everyday prence | E pointless |
C rare extermination | F assorted |
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10. She demonstrates great extent of ------, as she has travelled to many more countries and places around the world than any of her kindred.
A. conspicuousness
B. sagaciousness
C. perfidiousness
D. peregrination
E. jubilation
11. For Ruskin, architecture rves the community only when approached in a spirit of piety and ------. Architecture must t effective boundaries to public space, and it does so by ------ the desire to show off, to stand out, to record the artistic flair of some temporary ego. Architecture succeeds in its public task through ------ and devotion, of the kind that can be obrved in the moulding, firing and laying of a properly proportioned brick, but which is violated at every point by Frank Gehry’s bombastic Guggenheim Muum in Bilbao.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
A sanctimony | D relinquishing | G braggadocio |
B sacrifice | E retrieving | H demi |
C altruism | F fastening | I humility |
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12. As the study of the foundation of western Shanghai reveals, there was, a n of elegance in the refined, simple lines that characterized the entire row, bereft of the exuberant, emphatic, asrtive, ornament that constituted the latest British architectural fashion, which expresd its detestation of Palladianism and neoclassicism – London's Regent Street then being regarded as abhorrent – calling it the product of a ------ “shopocracy”. The ------ of Western architectural taste – oscillating between simplicity and ornamental ------ – must have bemud Chine obrvers who had long accepted that both approaches were valid and could co-exist.
