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1 1.​ The attempt to breed suitable varieties of jojoba by using hybridization to---favorable traits was finally abandoned in favor of a simpler and much faster---: the domestication of flourishing wild strains.同义重复 (A) eliminate.. alternative 没有与attempt相关的信息 (B) reinforce.. method (C) allow.. creation (D) reduce.. idea (E) concentrate.. theory 使用主干大法可以看出：the attempt was finally abandoned in favor of a _,此空格显然应将attempt重新填进去，能达这个含义的只有method.另外to_favorable traits从简单的思维角度入手，可以猜得这里应该填入一个增加之类的词。 2. According to one political theorist, a regime that its goal absolute---, without any---law or principle, has declared war on justice. 反义重复 (A) respectability.. codification of (B) supremacy .. suppression of (C) autonomy .. accountability to不是参考，而是负责任 (D) fairness .. deviation from (E) responsibility .. prioritization of 使用主干大法可以看出，a regime has declared war on justice.而修饰regime的就是that引导的从句，its girl absolute_,可以得知，空格填入的应该是”not justice”，能表达出这一意思的只有supremacy。 3. Although frequent air travelers remain unconvinced怀疑，不确认, researchers have found that, paradoxically, the---disorientation inherent in jet lag also may yield some mental health---.反义重复 (A) temporal.. benefits (B) acquired.. hazards (C) somatic .. disorders (D) random .. deficiencies (E) typical .. standards disorientation是一个贬义词，根据paradoxically，后面的空格应该填一个褒义词。 4.Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this---meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.反义重复 (A) esoteric (B) literal (C) latent (D) allusive (E) symbolic 关键词是this。 5. Although it seems---that there would be a greater risk of serious automobile accidents in densely populated areas, such accidents are more likely to occur in sparsely populated regions. (A) paradoxical (B) axiomatic (C) anomalous (D) irrelevant (E) portentous 6. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the transition from medieval---experience to modern individualism, we confront an electronic technology that seems likely to reverse the trend, rendering individualism obsolete and interdependence mandatory. (A) literary (B) intuitive (C) corporate (D) heroic (E) spiritual 7. The author did not see the---inherent in her scathing criticism of a writing style so similar to her own. (A) disinterest (B) incongruity (C) pessimism (D) compliment (E) symbolism 8.Our biological uniqueness requires that the effects of a substance must be verified by---experiments, even after thousands of tests of the effects of that substance on animals. (A) controlled (B) random (C) replicated (D) human (E) evolutionary 9. Today water is more---in landscape architecture than ever before, because technological advances have made it easy, in some instances even ---to install water features风景 in public places. (A) conspicuous.. prohibitive禁止的 (B) sporadic.. effortless (C) indispensable.. intricate (D) ubiquitous.. obligatory例行公事 (E) controversial.. unnecessary 10. While many Russian composers of the nineteenth century contributed to an emerging national style, other composers did not---- idiomatic习俗的 Russian musical elements, ---- instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western European Romanticism. (A) utilize ..rejecting (B) incorporate.. preferring (C) exclude.. avoiding (D) repudiate.. expanding (E) esteem.. disdaining 11. Because the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder was obsessed with his ----perfection, he was rarely ----a painting, creating endless variations of a scene on one canvas, one on top of another. (A) quest for.. satisfied with (B) insistence on .. displeased with (C) contempt for.. disconcerted by (D) alienation from.. immersed in (E) need for.. concerned with 12. Objectively set standards公正设立的 can serve as a ----for physicians, providing them----unjustified malpractice claims不公正的错误指控. (A) trial.. evidence of (B) model.. experience with (C) criterion.. reasons for (D) test.. questions about (E) safeguard.. protection from 13. In spite of ----reviews in the press,the production of her play was ----almost certain oblivion by enthusiastic audiences whose acumen was greater than that of the critics. (A) lukewarm.. condemned to (B) scathing.. exposed to (C) lackluster.. rescued from (D) sensitive.. reduced to (E) admiring.. insured against 当目陷入僵局时，做题还需要尝试从正评价或负评价的方面选词。 14. The passions of love and pride are often found in the same individual, but having little in common状语, they mutually ----, not to say destroy, not to say 虽然说不上 each other. (A) reinforce (B) annihilate (C) enhance (D) weaken (E) embrace 15. A unique clay disk found at the Minoan site of Phaistos is often ----as the earliest example of printing by scholars who have defended its claim权利 to this status despite equivalent claims put forward for other printing artifacts. (A) questioned (B) overlooked (C) adduced (D) conceded (E) dismissed By前后结果与行为一致 16. Punishment for violating moral rules is much more common than reward for following them; thus, ----- the rules goes almost ---- in society. (A) association with .. undefended (B) adherence to .. unnoticed (C) affiliation of .. uncorrected (D) opposition to .. unchecked (E) ignorance of .. unresolved 17. Compassion is a great respecter of justice: we pity those who suffer ----.解题步骤：pity重复compassion，vicariously重复justice (A) shamelessly (B) unwittingly (C) vicariously替罪羊的 (D) intensively (E) undeservedly 根据句意，可知空格里应填justice的反义词。 18. MacCrory's conversation was --------: she could never tell a story, chiefly because she always forgot it, and she was never guilty of a witticism俏皮话, unless by accident. (A) scintillating (B) unambiguous (C) perspicuous (D) stultifying愚笨的 (E) facetious 根据句子中的语气，空格中显然应填一个贬义词，只有D和E符合题意，仔细考虑，Efacetious虽然可以表达出she was never guity of a witticism,但是却不能体会出前半句的意思，因而没有stultifying覆盖的范围广。做题时切忌以偏概全。 19. No work illustrated his disdain for a systematic approach to research better than his dissertation, which was rejected primarily because his bibliography constituted, at best,----- survey of the major texts in his field. (A) an unimaginative (B) an orthodox (C) a meticulous (D) a comprehensive (E) a haphazard 20. Until quite recently research on diabetes had, as a kind of holding action, attempted to refine the -----of the disease, primarily because no preventive预防的 strategy seemed at all likely to be ----- . (A) definition .. necessary (B) anticipation .. acceptable (C) understanding .. costly (D) treatment .. practicable (E) symptoms .. feasible 21. Most plant species exhibit ----- in their geographical distribution: often, a given species is found over a large geographical area, but individual populations种群 within that range are widely ----- . (A) discontinuity .. separated (B) density .. dispersed (C) symmetry .. observed (D) uniformity .. scattered (E) concentration .. adaptable 冒号后是对上文的重复。第二个句子中But暗示一个转折，本题从第二个空入手。 22. In contrast to the----- with which the acquisition of language by young children was once regarded, the process by which such learning occurs has now become the object of ----- . (A) intensity .. fascination (B) incuriosity .. scrutiny (C) anxiety .. criticism (D) reverence .. admiration (E) impatience .. training 通过对句子主干的提取，可以很容易的看出空中的两个词应为反义词。 23. There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people's social behavior and the values informing it that cannot be ------from one or another point of view, or even ------as simplistic or vapid. (A) accepted…praised (B) intuited…exposed (C) harangued…retracted (D) defended…glorified (E) challenged…dismissed 直接从as simplistic or vapid可以看出前面一个空应该填一个贬义词，本题中只有e选项中的dismissed符合题意。如果从句子主干分析的话，there is hardly a generalization can be made cannot be __ from one or another point of view.这时有accepted和challenged符合题意，但prased as simplistic or vapid显然很荒谬。 24. Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be ------ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process. (A) counterbalanced by (B) attributed to (C) inferred from (D) augmented with (E) stimulated by 25. The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with eirqual devotion to abstract -- ----is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best, ------and as if by chance.后面的红字的小连接是判断的关键 (A) data…extensively (B) philosophy…cyclically (C) generalization…sporadically零星的，偶然的 (D) evaluation…opportunely (E) intuition….selectively 如果通过主句来判断的话，the prevailing union is a hall mark.int the past显然构成了一个时间上的类比，那么以前的union就不是hallmark,这里只有sporadically符合条件，而如果考虑到后面的小连接and if by chance的话，就直接可以选出第二个空为sporadically。第一个空应该是与fact并列的词。 26. A century ago the physician's word was ------ to doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious亵渎的 (A) inevitable (B) intractable (C) incontrovertible (D) objective (E) respectable 这个句子是不是有点问题呢，我感觉应该是a century ago the physician’s word was incontrovertible; To doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious. 27. Robin's words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone平稳的语调 only by a careful --- --- imminent extremes. (A) equipoise between 小心的平衡 (B) embrace of (C) oscillation between (D) limitation to (E) Subjection to 28. Although a change in management may appear to ------- a shift in a company's fortunes, more often than not its impact is -------- (A) hinder...measurable (B) promote...demonstrable (C) accelerate...profound (D) betray...fundamental (E) augur...inconsiderable 从题目中易知第二个空格中应填与shift的感觉相反的词，这里只有inconsiderable符合题意。而第一空，在不考虑第二空的情况下只能排除A选项。 29. The skeleton of ------- bird that was recently discovered indicated that this ancient creature - ----- today's birds in that, unlike earlier birds and unlike reptilian ancestors, it had not a tooth in its head. (A) a primeval... obscured (B) a unique... preempted (C) a primitive...anticipated (D) a contemporary... foreshadowed (E) an advanced...differed from 30. People of intelligence and achievement can none- theless be so ------ and lacking in ------ that they gamble their reputations by breaking the law to further their own ends. (A) devious...propensity (B) culpable...prosperity看成propriety了，下次注意 (C) obsequious...deference (D) truculent... independence (E) greedy... integrity 31. A number of scientists have published articles ------- global warming, stating ------- that there is no solid scientific evidence to support the theory that the Earth is warming because of increases in greenhouse gases. (A) debunking...categorically明确的，直截了当的 (B) rejecting...paradoxically (C) deploring...optimistically (D) dismissing...hesitantly (E) proving...candidly There is no solid evidence就说明了作者对global warming是持否认态度的，因而只有ACD可以候选，categorically这里指的是明确地，直截了当地，符合题意。 32. The senator's attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running for a second term is as -------- as her opponent's attempt to disguise his intention to run against her. (A) biased确实有点太主观了 (B) unsuccessful (C) inadvertent (D) indecisive (E) remote 既然说是disguise了，就说明已经暴露了，因而是不成功的。 33. Conceptually, it is hard to reconcile a defense attorney's ____ to ensure that false testimony is not knowingly put forward with the attorney's mandate命令 to mount the most ____ defense conceivable for the client. (A) efforts ... cautious (B) duty ... powerful (C) inability ... eloquent (D) failure ... diversified (E) promises ... informed 错误的理解了mandate的含义。 34. Originally, most intellectual criticism of mass culture was ____ in character, being based on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the more ____ the product. (A) unpredictable ... undesirable (B) ironic ... popular (C) extreme ... outlandish (D) frivolous ... superfluous (E) negative ... shoddy 35. Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the com crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____. (A) inadequate ... replenished (B) encouraging ... depleted (C) compromised ... salvaged (D) abundant ... extended (E) disappointing ... harmed key: ACCAE CEABB BBBBA BBCBD DBAEC DCBCD EDABE