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1. Certain weeds that flourish among rice crops resist detection until maturity by _____ the seedling stage in the rice plant’s life cycle, thereby remaining indistinguishable from the rice crop until the flowering stage.

(A) deterring

(B) displacing

(C) augmenting

(D) imitating

(E) nurturing

分析：空格填入一个现在分词，表示“某些杂草(some weeds)”对于“幼苗期(seedling stage)”做的动作，thereby表示前后一致，remaining表示空格1要体现“不容易和水稻区分(indistinguishable from the rice crop)”的含义。A阻止;B移动，取代;C扩大，增加;D模仿;E养育，培养。D选项正确。

翻译：一些在水稻丛中生长茂盛的杂草要到成熟才会被发现，它们通过模仿水稻生命周期中的幼苗来做到这一点，因此直到开花阶段它们才能和水稻区分开来。

扩展：本题可以作为动植物自我保护机制的例子进行积累和扩展，杂草通过模仿(类似动物的拟态)相似的植物来避免自己被发现。我们也可以积累其他动植物进行自我保护的手段和具体的实例。

2. Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a _____ island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.

(A) clannish

(B) serene

(C) declining

(D) tranquil

(E) recognized

3. Though environmentalists have targeted some herbicides as potentially dangerous, the manufactures, to the environmentalists’ dismay, _____ the use of these herbicides on lawns.

(A) defy

(B) defer

(C) defend

(D) assail

(E) support

4. Paradoxically, England’s colonization of North America was _____ by its success: the increasing prosperity of the colonies diminished their dependence upon, and hence their loyalty to, their home country.

(A) demonstrated

(B) weakened

(C) determined

(D) altered

(E) undermined

5. Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more _____ aspects of a thing.

(A) paradoxical

(B) stable

(C) prevalent

(D) unvarying

(E) temporal

6. Because it has no distinct and recognizable typographical form and few recurring narrative conventions, the novel is, of all literary genres, the least susceptible to _____.

(A) misuse

(B) imprecision

(C) inquiry

(D) definition

(E) innovation