SECTION 7
Time –30 minutes
38 Questions
1. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic
travelers portrayed the American West as a land of
---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists
created ---- image of a land of infinite promise.
(A) lurid.. a mundane
(B) incredible.. an underplayed
(C) dispiriting.. an identical
(D) intriguing.. a luxuriant
(E) unremitting.. a compelling
2. Honeybees tend to be more ---- than earth bees:
the former, unlike the latter, search for food together
and signal their individual findings to one another.
(A) insular
(B) ag美国GREssive
(C) differentiated
(D) mobile
(E) social
3. Joe spoke of superfluous and ---- matters with
exactly the same de美国GREe of intensity, as though for
him serious issues mattered neither more nor less
than did ----.
(A) vital.. trivialities
(B) redundant.. superficialities
(C) important.. necessities
(D) impractical.. outcomes
(E) humdrum.. essentials
4. The value of Davis’ sociological research is com-
promised by his unscrupulous tendency to use
materials---- in order to substantiate his own
claims, while ---- information that points to other
possible conclusions.
(A) haphazardly.. deploying
(B) selectively.. disregarding
(C) cleverly.. weighing
(D) modestly.. refuting
(E) arbitrarily.. emphasizing
5. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to ----
volume and depth, they were able to replace the
medieval convention of symbolic, two-dimensional
space with the more ---- illusion of actual space.
(A) reverse.. conventional
(B) portray.. abstract
(C) deny.. concrete
(D) adumbrate.. fragmented
(E) render.. realistic
6. He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but
instead he encountered ---- bordering on hostility.
(A) patience
(B) discretion
(C) openness
(D) ineptitude
(E) indifference
7. The diplomat, selected for her demonstrated patience
and skill in conducting such delicate negotiations,
---- to make a decision during the talks because any
sudden commitment at that time would have been ----.
(A) resolved.. detrimental
(B) refused.. apropos
(C) declined.. inopportune
(D) struggled.. unconscionable
(E) hesitated.. warranted
8. CONDUCTOR: INSTRUMENTALIST::
(A) director: actor
(B) sculptor: painter
(C) choreographer: composer
(D) virtuoso: amateur英语作文
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