1. The outbreak of dia could not be labeled pandemic since despite its rapid ______ it remained confined to one small region.
A. spread
形容词的比较级和最高级B. concentration
C. fading
D. symptoms
E. improvement
2. The author's theory about modern design had an enormous impact when first published, but as ______ as it was then, it is now clearly ______.
A. scholarly…erudite
B. lackluster…impressive
C. influential…outdated
only的意思D. primitive…antiquarian
E. prestigious…masterful
3. Texas is known for its wild orchids, who ______ is evident in their ______ colors: 52 species have been catalogued, ranging from pure white to bright red.
A. novelty…traditional
B. diversity…myriad
C. stature…uniform
D. starkness…vibrant
E. toxicity…varying
4. In 1974 the committee overeing the Pulitzer Prize in Literature was ______ so much
______ that it bestowed no award at all that year.
A. plagued but…concordance
B. afforded with…esteem
C. exempt from…debate
D. racked with…disnsion
E. emboldened by…scrutiny
5. Pablo Picasso was ______ youth: his extraordinary artistic talent was obvious at a very early age.
A. an articulate
B. an immature
C. a disturbed
D. a precocious
E. a callow
procedure什么意思6. Jared has the habits of ______: he lives simply and donated most of his income to local charities.
A. a skeptic
B. a pundit
C. a dilettante
D. an insurgent
E. an ascetic
SECTION 9
The passage below is followed by questions bad on its content. Answer the questions
on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage and in any introductory material that may be provided.
Questions 7-19 are bad on the following passage.
This passage, taken from an early nineteenth-century novel, prents two characters—Shirley Keeldar, a young woman of twenty-one who has inherited a fortune and land in Yorkshire, England, and Mr. Sympson, the uncle who was her guardian until she reached adulthood.
Miss Keeldar and her uncle had characters that would not harmonize,—that never had harmonized. He was irritable, and she was spirited; he was despotic, Line and she liked freedom; he was worldly, and she, perhaps, 5 romantic.
Not without purpo had he come down to Yorkshire: his mission was clear, and he intended to discharge it conscientiously: he anxiously desired to have his niece married; to make for her a suitable match; give her in
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10 charge to a proper husband, and wash his hands of her for ever.
The misfortune was, from infancy upwards, Shirley and he had disagreed on the meaning of the words "suitable" and "proper." She never yet had accepted
15 his definition; and it was doubtful whether, in the most important step of her life, she would connt to accept it.
The trial soon came.
Mr. Wynne announced to Mr. Sympson that his family wished to arrange a marriage between his son, Samuel
绯闻女孩第一季下载20 Fawthrop Wynne, and Miss Keeldar.
"Decidedly suitable! Most proper!" pronounced Mr. Sympson. "A fine unencumbered estate; real substance; good connections. // must be donel"
He nt for his niece to the oak-parlor; he shut
25 himlf up there with her alone; he communicated the offer; he gave his opinion; he claimed her connt.
wrong
It was withheld.
"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects
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30 he is more than worthy of you."
She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling.
"And / ask in what n that young man is worthy
35of me?
"He has twice your money,—twice your common n;—equal connections,—equal respectability,"
"Had he my money counted five score times, I would take no vow to love him."
40 "Plea to state your objections."
"He has run a cour of despicable, commonplace profligacy. Accept that as the first reason why 1 spurn him."
"Miss Keeldar, you shock me!"
45 "That conduct alone sinks him in a gulf of immeasur¬able inferiority. His intellect reaches no standard I can esteem:—there is a cond stumbling block. His views are narrow; his feelings are blunt; his tastes are coar; his manners vulgar."
50 "The man is a respectable, wealthy man. To refu him is presumption on your part."
"I refu, point-blank! Cea to annoy me with the subject: I forbid it!"
challenge"Is it your intention ever to marry, or do you prefer
55 celibacy?"
"I deny your right to claim an answer to that question."
"May I ask if you expect some man of title—some ' peer of the realm—to demand your hand?"idiotic
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