Investors are grateful that the attorney general has stepped in to pursue inquiries into misfeasance on the financial markets, given that the regulators officially charged with policing the industry have been _____.
A：diffident
B：meticulous
C：straightforward
D：implacable
E：tenacious
答案：A
A significant element of the Gothic genre, the literary grotesque is sometimes inaccurately discussed as if it were a _____Gothic or, conversely, as if it were something entirely different from Gothic.
A：synonym for
B：characteristic of
C：counterweight to
D：ramification of
E：deviation from
答案：A
In his study of Senegambian cleric Shaykh Mass Kah (1827-1936), Bala S. K. Saho notes that it is difficult to fully (i) _____many of the oral accounts on which the study relies. Saho’s work shows, however, that despite this absence of (ii)_____ , oral history can provide useful sources from which historians can reconstruct the past.
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A：comprehend D：partiality
B：reproduce E：argumentation
C：validate F：corroboration
答案：CF
The city’s traffic-planning department has been working hard to (i) _____drivers. Closely spaced stop lights have been added on roads into town, causing delays. Pedestrian underpasses designed to allow traffic to flow freely across major intersections have been (ii)_____ .
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A：assist D：enhanced
B：calm E：stabilized
C：discourage F：removed
答案：CF
The (i) _____current-generation solar cells are (ii)_____ : although experimental cells have reached efficiencies greater than 40 percent, most commercially available cells in the early part of the twenty-first century still struggle to get past about 20 percent.
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A：attractions of D：clear
B：limitations of E：unmatched
C：improvements in F：misunderstood
答案：BD
