1. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and ______, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ______.
A bereft theatricallty
B composed adversity
C full circumstantiolity
D deprived polarity
E commercial
答案：E
2. Today water is more ____ in landscape architecture than ever before, because technological advances have made it easy, in some instances even ____ to install water features in public places.
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A serenity D bereft of theatricality
B corruption E deprived of polarity
C fertility F devoid of neutrality
答案：DE
3. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ______ than a similar article intended for ______ use.
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A conservative D vocational
B lavishly E commercial
C creatively F everyday
答案：BF
4. Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and wonderful ______ feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as ______ that required deciphering.
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A collaborative D an aberration
B visual E a hieroglyph
C technical F an issusion
答案：CE
5. In spite of the ______ nature of Scotland’s terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe______.
A rocky...weather
B mountainous...grades
C uncharted...flooding
D unpredicatable...damage
E landlocked...slipperiness
答案：B
6. The skeleton of ____ bird that was recently discovered indicated that this ancient creature ____ today’s birds in that, unlike earlier birds and unlike reptilian ancestors, it had not a tooth in its head.
A a primeval obscured
B a unique preempted
C a primitive anticipatied
D a contemporary forshadowed
E an advanced diffred from
答案：C
7. Most plant species exhibit ____ in their geographical distribution: often, a given species is found over a large geographical area, but individual populations within that range are widely ____ .
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A discontinuity separated
B density dispered
C symmeetry observerd
D uniformity scattered
E concentration adaptable
答案：A
8. Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, Stevenson had no right to ____ himself: it was his ____ that had caused the debacle.
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A congratulate D acrimony
B absolve E modesty
C berate F largesse
答案：BD
9. That she seemed to prefer ____ to concentrated effort is undeniable; nevertheless, the impressive quality of her finished paintings suggests that her actual relationship to her art was anything but____ .
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A artfulness D considered
B caprice E superficial
C dabbling F lighthearted
答案：CE
10. The philosopher claimed that a person who must consciously ____ his or her own indifference before helping another is behaving more nobly than one whose basic disposition allows such an act to be performed without____ .
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A suffer D enthusiasm
B feign E duplicity
C overcome F deliberation
答案：CF
