1. Biologists ____ isolated oceanic islands like the Galapagos, because, in such small, laboratory-like settings, the rich hurly-burly of continental plant and animal communities is reduced to a scientifically _____ complexity.

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A an irreparable D impose

B a negative E escape

C a permanent F enter

答案：AE

2. Although Shakespeare received little formal education, scholarship has in recent years _____ the view that he was _____ the work of classical authors.

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A customary D approval

B unselfish E documentation

C spurious F discretion

答案：AF

3. The president’s secretary and his chief aide adored him, and both wrote obsessively _____ personal memoirs about him; unfortunately, however, ____ does not make for true intimacy.

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A substantiated D obsessed by

B supported E oblivious to

C undermined F unfamiliar with

答案：BD

4. Despite claims that his philosophy can be traced to ____ source, the philosophy in fact draws liberally on several traditions and methodologies and so could justifiably be termed _____.

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A masked D a direct

B bolstered E a needless

C enhanced F a circumspect

答案：AD

5. The tone of Jane Carlyle’s letter is guarded, and her feelings are always ____ by the wit and pride that made ____ plea for sympathy impossible for her.

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A modify D resurrecting

B inhibit E perpetuating

C supplement F appreciating

答案：AE

6. Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ____ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than ____ it.

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A a single D eclectic

B an authoritative E derivative

C a schematic F cogent

答案：AD

7. Though many medieval women possessed devotional books that had belonged to their mothers, formal written evidence of women bequeathing books to their daughters is scarce, which suggests that such bequests were _____ and required no _____.

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A devoted D confidentiality

B rancorous E idolatry

C fatuous F criticism

答案：BF

8. The functions of the hands, eyes, and brain are so ______ that using the hands during early childhood helps to promote the child’s entire _______ development.

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A intertwined D perceptual

B individualized E adolescent

C enigmatic F social

答案：BD

9. Because they had various meanings in nineteenth-century biological thought,"mechanism" and "vitalism" ought not to be considered ____terms; thus, I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely ____.

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A desert D diverse

B reject E intimidating

C prize F tractable

答案：CD

10. We accepted the theory that as people become more independent of one another, they begin to feel so isolated and lonely that freedom becomes ____ condition that most will seek to ____.

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A congruent D erroneous

B multifaceted E vapid

C univocal F obtuse

答案：AD