1. If efficacious new medicines have side effects that are commonly observed and _____, such medicines are too often considered _____, even when laboratory tests suggest caution.
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A salutary D outdated
B unpredictable E safe
C unremarkable F experimental
答案：AE
2. A number of writers who once greatly _____ the literary critic have recently recanted, substituting _____ for their former criticism.
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A disparaged D approbation
B lauded E ambivalence
C influenced F censure
答案：AF
3. The actual _____ of Wilson’s position was always _____ by his refusal to compromise after having initially agreed to negotiate a settlement.
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A cowardice D betrayed
B rigidity E foreshadowed
C uncertainty F alleviated
答案：AE
4. Salazar’s presence in the group was so _____ the others that they lost most of their earlier _____; failure, for them, became all but unthinkable.
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A mundane D practicable
B visionary E appealing
C eclectic F ignored
答案：AE
5. Although the architects concept at first sounded too _____ to be_____, his careful analysis of every aspect of the project convinced the panel that the proposed building was indeed, structurally feasible.
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A unnoticed by D confidence
B reassuring to E exhilaration
C unexpected by F trepidation
答案：CD
6. He was regarded by his followers, as something of _____, not only because of his insistence on strict discipline, but also because of his _____ adherence to formal details.
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A an acolyte D reluctant
B a martinet E sporadic
C a tyrant F rigid
答案：BF
7. The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the years, has become a very strict form, a literary _____ that permits very little _____.
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A experience D scientifically
B conjecture E empirically
C surmise F aesthetically
答案：AD
8. Although _____ is usually thought to spring from regret for having done something wrong, it may be that its origin is the realization that one’s own nature is irremediably _____.
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A remorse D innocent
B skepticism E frivolous
C certitude F flawed
答案：CE
9. Unlike philosophers who constructed theoretically ideal states, she built a theory based on _____; thus, although her constructs may have been inelegant, they were _____ sound.
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A genre D deviation
B feature E rigidity
C achievement F grandiloquence
答案：CD
10. Even though political editorializing was not _____ under the new regime, journalists still experienced _____, though perceptible , governmental pressure to limit dissent.
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A commended D clear
B encouraged E discreet
C forbidden F overt
答案：CE
11. No longer______by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual______for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
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A an accepted D anachronism to
B an underground E concern about
C an unknown F defiance against
答案：AE
12. Noting that few employees showed any______for complying with the corporations new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be______, at best.
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A enthusiasm D grudging
B indifference E indeterminate
C rectitude F unavoidable
答案：AD
13. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so______Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in______in the Western Hemisphere.
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A decimated D abeyance
B terrorized E secret
C corrupted F quarantine
答案：AD
14. Nature’s energy efficiency often______human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency______ the firefly’s system.
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A admire D elusive
B dismiss E relevant
C adapt F unconventional
答案：AE
15. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can______the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more______than we had thought.
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A candid D soliciting
B idiosyncratic E altering
C reticent F eschewing
答案：BE
