1. Since it is now ______ to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in ______ ways.

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A unprecedented D unique

B difficult E similar

C routine F undiscovered

答案：BE

2. Although their initial anger had ____ somewhat, they continued to ____the careless worker who had broken the machine.

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A abating D systematic

B substantial E erratic

C increasing F superficial

答案：BF

3. Although the number of reported volcanic eruptions has risen exponentially since 1850, this indicates not____ volcanic activity but rather more widespread and ____ record keeping.

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A contradictory D conveyed

B organic E imposed

C oblique F captured

答案：CF

4. The challenge of interpreting fictional works written under politically repressive regimes lies in distinguishing what is ____ to an author’s beliefs, as opposed to what is ____ by political coercion.

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A intensified D berate

B blazed E appease

C abated F condone

答案：AF

5. 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.

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A reinforce D creation

B eliminate E method

C concentrate F theory

答案：CD

6. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of ______ for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to ______ its own continental coastline.

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A negligence D defend

B expediency E change

C exigency F suppress

答案：AE

7. While many Russian composers of the nineteenth century contributed to an emerging national style, other composers did not ____ idiomatic Russian musical elements, ____ instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western European Romanticism.

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A contempt for D disconcerted by

B quest for E immersed in

C alienation from F satisfied with

答案：CD

8. 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.

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A incorporate D preferring

B repudiate E rejecting

C esteem F expanding

答案：AF

9. 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.

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A lackluster D condemned to

B admiring E rescued from

C sensitive F exposed to

答案：AE

10. Until quite recently research on diabetes had, as a kind of holding action, attempted to refine the ____ of the disease, primarily because no preventive strategy seemed at all likely to be ____.

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A comprehension D necessary

B treatment E costly

C symptoms F practicable

答案：CD