The university’s once _____ department of economic history has lost prestige and transmogrified into a department of management and marketing
A：respected
B：slighted
C：pretentious
D：gigantic
E：venerable
F：snubbed
答案：AE
Our mass media are much morefascinated by bad ideas or the failure of good ones than by successes: we drownin bad news--tales of how things went wrong--but we have only the most____discussion on how they might go right.
A：Incisive
B：Tantalizing
C：Trenchant
D：Cursory
E：Illusory
F：perfunctory
答案：DF
The economic recovery was somewhat lopsided: (i)______ in some of the industries economics while (ii)______ in others of them.
Blank (I)Blank (II)
A：unexpected D：robust
B：feeble E：turbulent
C：swift F：predictable
答案：BD
So (i)_____ is the reputation of the country’s police for corruption and other forms of (ii)_____that it has become a kind of tradition that every newly appointed police chief pledges to (iii)_____the force.
Blank (I)Blank (II)Blank (III)
A：persisted D：indolence G：contradict
B：paralyzing E：incompetence H：reform
C：unfounded F：criminality I：reward
答案：AFH
Many Latin American writers and critics have come to bristle at the very mention of the type of fiction termed “magic realism,” but to the common reader the appeal of such fiction is ____ .
A：elusive
B：undiminished
C：unfathomable
D：unexpected
E：derivative
答案：B
