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1.（1-3） The (i)______ of molecular oxygen on Earth-sized planets around other stars in
the universe would not be (ii)______ sign of life: molecular oxygen can be a signature of
photosynthesis (a biotic process) or merely of the rapid escape of water from the upper
reaches of a planetary atmosphere (an abiotic process).
A. dearth D. a controversial
B. presumption E. an unambiguous

C. detection F. a possible

2.（1-4） Given the (i)______ the committees and the (ii)______ nature of its
investigation, it would be unreasonable to gainsay the committee’s conclusions
at first glance.
A. sterling reputation of D. superficial
B. lack of finding of E. spontaneous
C. ad hoc existence of F. exhaustive

3.（2-1） Among the Meakambut people of Papua New Guinea, legends are associated
with specific caves in the Sepik region, and these legends are ______: only the cave owner
can share its secrets.
A. impenetrable
B. immutable
C. proprietary
D. didactic
E. self-perpetuating

4.（2-4）Although trains may use energy more (i)______ than do automobiles, the latter
move only when they contain at least one occupant, whereas railway carriages spend
a considerable amount of time running up and down the tracks (ii)______, or nearly so.
A. lavishly D. vacant
B. efficiently E. unimpeded

C. routinely F. overlooked

5.（5-4）He was never (i)______; he was nothing if not (ii)______, so he forbore for the
present to declare his passion.
A. chivalrous D. boorish

B. impetuous E. circumspect
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C. thoughtful F. spontaneous

6.（5-10）Although field studies have linked inbreeding to declines among song sparrow
populations, some researchers argue that, in nature, inbreeding proves_______ as a factor
when compared with crushing blows from weather changes.
A. hazardous
B. momentous
C. trivial
D. significant
E. precarious
F. inconsequential

7.（6-4）So (i)______is the reputation of the city’s police force for (ii)______that whenever a
new police chief take office, he or she routinely promises to clean up the force.
A. persistent D. corruption
B. recent E. efficiency

C. discouraging F. inexperience

8.（6-5）Scientists said that cosmology was the field where the ratio of theory to data was
(i)_____: there was an abundance of theories, but almost no data. Recently, however, that
ratio has flipped. A huge and ever-increasing amount of data has (ii)_____all theories but
one.
A. completely unknown D. eliminated

B. nearly infinite E. supported

C. always variable F. clarified

9.（7-4）She was never (i)______; she was nothing if not discreet, so she (ii)_____for the
present to declare her passion.
A. precipitate D. pretended
B. tactful E. decided
C. thoughtful F. forbore

10.（7-9）Any notion of justice in the fortunes of artists is______: works of equal value and
quality produce quite different returns or no returns at all.
A. baseless
B. cliché
C. untenable
D. insulting

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E. condescending
F. idealistic

11.（8-3）Any account of experimental music in the United States that (i)______ the
predominantly African American bebop and free jazz movements is (ii)______, since this
body of music constitutes what is arguably the most influential African experimental
music in the decades following the Second World War.
A. neglects D. underappreciated
B. exaggerates E. problematic

C. reinterprets F. self-serving

12.（9-3）The description of Green’s scholarship as (i)______ is grossly misleading: while

her research on interstellar particles is not especially novel, the conclusions she draws
from her data are (ii)______.
A. esoteric D. remarkably pioneering
B. tendentious E. dubiously supported

C. derivative F. strangely comforting

13.（10-4）While acknowledging behaviors the Prime Minster took in order to remain in

office were (i)______, some politicians nevertheless believed this small amount of (ii)______
was justified to keep reforming government in office.
A. unethical D. skullduggery
B. impractical E. indolence

C. quixotic F. incivility

14.（10-7）In establishing that the dust she had observed constitutes two percent of the
mass in the quadrant, the astronomer showed that the dust’s extreme visual prominence
______ its relatively minor contribution to the total mass of the region.
A. belies
B. masks
C. highlights
D. nullifies
E. disproves
F. accentuates

15.（11-5）At Cerro Portezuelo, the task of separating grinding tools from the larger
collection of excavated stone objects was (i)______ the ancient practice of recycling
grinding tool fragments for building materials, hammer stones, and other purposes that
(ii)______their original use.
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A. complicated by D. complemented

B. important to E. obscured
C. independent from F. underscored

16.（12-6）Just because, as a photographer, Friedlander (i)______places that most people

consider ugly does not mean that he is out to prove they are beautiful. Instead, his work
suggests that the photographer simply cannot ignore so much of the built American
landscape but is obligated to (ii)______what we pass through day in and day out,
regardless of (iii)______.
A. tends to avoid D. document G. authenticity
B. is harshly critical of E. emulate H. truthfulness

C. is interested in F. discredit I. aesthetics

17.（14-3）World demand for oil had been intensified, but it slackened because China’s
surge in oil consumption had (i)______. Moreover, high oil price had themselves started
to act as a short-term (ii)______the global economy, thus further dampening demand.
A. spread D. spur to
B. commenced E. drag on

C. slowed F. panacea for

18.（14-6）Gravitational waves—ripples in the geometry of space-time—are analogous

to electromagnetic waves. The challenge in trying to observe these waves directly is that
they are extremely weak. To make waves large enough to be (i)______, the most (ii)______
events in the universe are required: supernova explosions, the formation of black holes,
or the collision of stars. Even so, the effects are (iii)______. The geometry changes so little
that a distance of several kilometers changes by less than the diameter of a proton.
A. detectable D. obvious G. masked
B. usable E. subtle H. disastrous
C. explicable F. violent I. minuscule

19.（16-2）In protoscientific (for example, in ancient Greece), claims about the physical
world were often accepted as true if they were reasonable; experimental verification, if
thought necessary at all, was______.
A. utilitarian
B. perfunctory
C. egregious
D. empirical
E. inductive
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20.（16-6）Although Thaler employs an innovative mode of analysis, his study offers yet
another examination of quite (i)______ground-namely, the culture ideology of
Norwegian-American preservationist writers in the early twentieth century. The history,
literature, and changing internal dynamics of the Norwegian subculture in America
constitute a particularly well-studied area. Anyone familiar with the authoritative work of
scholars in the field will (ii)______little in Thaler’s study that is (iii)______.
A. unfamiliar D. find G. accurate
B. well-worked E. understand H. new

C. fruitful F. reveal I. recognizable

21.（17-3）The benefits offered by information technology do not (i)______the need for

individual reasoning; for example, Internet user should not allow the reasoning process
to be (ii)______the mere accumulation raw data.
A. disguise D. preceded by
B. signal E. supplemented with
C. diminish F. supplanted by

22.（18-4）Due to the extraordinary circumstances, British business owners found

themselves in a (i)______position during the Second World War, forced to accept regular
interference from government and to acquiesce to (ii)______role for labor unions in
negotiating the terms and conditions of employment.
A. defensive D. a traditional
B. dominant E. an enhanced
C. customary F. a diminished

23.（18-6）laws protecting intellectual property are intended to stimulate creativity, yet

some forms of creative work have never enjoyed legal protection—a situation that ought
to be of great interest. If we see certain forms of creative endeavor (i)______as a result of
uncontrolled copying, we might decide to (ii)______intellectual property law. Conversely,
if unprotected creative work (iii)______in the absence of legal rules against copying, we
would do well to know how such flourishing is sustained.
A. languishing D. jettison G. declines in originality
B. proliferating E. extend H. manages to thrive
C. diversifying F. relax I. openly invites imitation

24.（18-9）Because its previously______beliefs had become core tenets of mainstream

politics, the activist group disbanded; with no more skeptics to persuade, its purpose had
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evaporated.
A. arcane
B. seditious
C. quixotic
D. idealistic
E. popular
F. conventional

25.（18-10）Although scientific progress leads to constant revision of ideas, one

observation that has remained______ over the years is that there are a lot of insects in the
world: some 950,000 species have been identified.
A. robust
B. significant
C. strong
D. perplexing
E. confounding
F. obscure

26.（22-2）Many readers today consider the moral sentiments expressed in the ancient
writers’ work to be quite vapid, and in the seventeenth century they were similarly
regarded as______.
A. jejune
B. didactic
C. dogmatic
D. tendentious
E. arcane

27.（22-6）Although political events in different countries were not (i)______ in the

nineteen century, their interrelationship was (ii)______ compared with the present, when
interdependence has become far greater: (iii)______ has ceased to be an option.
A. unconnected D. conditional G. isolationism
B. trivial E. superficial H. resilience
C. simultaneous F. transparent I. idealism

28.（23-9/45-9）Films that critics have slumbered through rarely generate industry

excitement, even though the critics’ ______ reception may be less the fault of the movie
than of its unfortunate time slot near a fatiguing film festival’s conclusion.
A. somnolent
B. impartial
C. lethargic
D. laconic
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E. befuddled
F. evenhanded

29.（24-3）It would be naïve to treat remarks made in diaries or personal letters as giving
especially candid access to historical truth or even as being expressions of the writer’s
true state of mind, since the (i)______ for exaggeration and deception in those forms is
virtually nonexistent. Diaries and letters are rarely sites for (ii)______.
A. motivation D. premeditated manipulation
B. penalty E. childish theatrics
C. tendency F. balanced reflection

30.（24-8）Flawed as it may be because it is conducted by subjective scientists, science

itself has methods that help us______ our biases and talk about objective reality with
some validity.
A. bypass
B. reduce
C. exacerbate
D. magnify
E. acknowledge
F. circumvent

31.（25-10）For all the______ the new CEO has received from the press recently, her staff
have a decidedly less rosy view of her.
A. encomiums
B. tributes
C. evaluations
D. critiques
E. attention
F. publicity

32.（27-1）Though many avant-garde writers______ traditional distinctions among literary

categories, combining elements of biography and fiction, prose and poetry, this fusion of
forms has been slow to catch on with publishers.
A. flout
B. presuppose
C. exploit
D. imitate
E. illuminate

33.（27-2）By pointing out the self-serving nature of the governor’s motives for
supporting the new health care policy, the columnist implied that the governor’s
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idealistic-sounding explanation of her position on the issue was almost certainty______.

A. impractical
B. derivative
C. simplistic
D. disingenuous
E. ineffectual

34.（28-4）The book is not comprehensive but is, instead, (i)______ in the most positive
sense:(ii)______ rather than settles.
A. definitive D. stipulates
B. provocative E. suggests

C. timely F. disseminates

35.（29-10）Space is often referred to as the final frontier, as the only realm of which
humankind has still to gain substantial understanding, yet the ocean is also another vast
area about which our knowledge is______ .
A. erroneous
B. confusing
C. frustrating
D. rudimentary
E. delusive
F. sketchy

36.（30-8）Tompkinson’s prior donations to the university, while very generous, failed

to________ the magnitude of her latest gift.
A. compensate for
B. portend
C. clarify
D. predict
E. offset
F. undermine

37.（31-6/46-6）For many years, Americans have had a love affair with ferryboats. Ferries
are said to relieve our frayed nerves after we’ve stewed in bumper-to-bumper traffic,
and conventional wisdom also says ferries (i)______ congestion and air pollution by
getting us out of cars. Unfortunately, this (ii)______notion recently has (iii)______several
West Coast mayors, who have in consequence eagerly pursued the implementation of
ferry service in their cities.
A. contribute to D. provocative G. captivated
B. reduce E. misguided H. confused

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C. cover up F. cynical I. outraged

38.（31-9/50-9）Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to______

themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them
even when those conditions change drastically.
A. hamstring
B. reinvent
C. promote
D. revitalize
E. impair
F. invigorate

39.（32-1）With the numerous opponents of the controversial new taxation measure in

such a fury, anyone who publicly advocated the measure did not fail to meet with______
usage.
A. politic
B. severe
C. sober
D. respectful
E. dejected

40.（33-7）Aerial viewings of the gigantic stone horse attributed to the Native American
Quechuan people fail to______ the considerable artistry required to create the piece: the
horse appears crudely constructed unless carefully examined from the ground.
A. reveal
B. justify
C. manifest
D. mitigate
E. diminish
F. undercut

41.（36-1）Investors are grateful that the attorney general has stepped in to pursue
inquiries into misfeasance in the financial markets, given that the regulators officially
charged with policing the industry have been______ .
A. diffident
B. meticulous
C. straightforward
D. implacable
E. tenacious

42.（36-2）Consolidating memory is not instantaneous or even______: every memory must

be encoded and moved from short-term to long-term storage, and some of these
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memories are, for whatever reason, more vividly imprinted than others.
A. salutary
B. deliberate
C. sequential
D. momentary
E. inevitable

43.（37-1）Instead of demonstrating the______ of archaeological applications of electronic

remote sensing, the pioneering study became, to some skeptics, an illustration of the
imprudence of interpreting sites based on virtual archaeology.
A. ubiquity
B. limitation
C. promise
D. redundancy
E. complexity

44.（37-5）The notion of film producers as the ogres of the movie business has proved an
(i)______ one, but according to The Producers by Tim Adler, it is not always grounded in
reality. Attacking what he calls the “auteur myth”—the idea of the director as the single
purveyor of art in an industry otherwise peopled with (ii)______ —he places at the heart
of his book an image of the producer, not the director, as the primary (iii)______ force in
the development and production of a movie.
A. accurate D. visionaries G. financial

B. hypocritic E. profitmongers H. inertial

C. enduring F. innocents I. creative

45.（37-9）Excessive focus on what might have been can cause in us feelings of

restlessness and regret, but some scientists are beginning to think that fancying an
alternative reality might have______ effects as well.
A. subtle
B. adverse
C. restorative
D. pleasurable
E. unfavorable
F. tonic

46.（38-8）One of the vocalists who auditioned for a leading part in the local production
of Sweeney Todd seemed to prefer______ to any attempt at producing a melody; a more
unpleasant voice was hard to imagine.
A. warbling
B. imitating
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C. improvising
D. shrieking
E. crooning
F. caterwauling

47.（39-2）The artist is known for making photographs that deal with politically charged
subject matter, yet because her art is so evocative and open-ended, it would be wrong
to characterize it as______ .
A. polemical
B. edifying
C. unobservant
D. innovative
E. ambiguous

48.（40-1）The medical professor’s thesis—hardly new, but rarely______ by a faculty

members of his distinction—is that patients are more than the sum of their symptoms
and systems.
A. discounted
B. ignored
C. subverted
D. underestimated
E. espoused

49.（40-6）Scientific papers often (i)______ what actually happened in the course of the
investigations they describe. Misunderstandings , blind alleys, and mistakes of various
sorts will fail to appear in the final written accounts because (ii)______ is a desirable
attribute when transmitting results in a scientific report and would be poorly served by
(iii)______ .
A. amplify D. transparency G. a comprehensive historical account

B. misrepresent E. efficiency H. a purely quantitative analysis

C. particularize F. exhaustiveness I. an overly superficial discussion

50.（45-3）Argument may be an overly (i)______ word to apply to the gossamer

contrivance that is A Summer of Humming birds. In what seems a self-conscious
(ii)______ of its mascot the book flits from one subject or moment in history to another,
following the various whims of its author.
A. archaic D. repudiation
B. imprecise E. emulation

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C. robust F. misrepresentation

51.（45-7）Citing the corruption and intrigue that pervaded politics in the city, my
colleague______ the newspaper’s trove of journalism prizes, declaring that finding great
stories in the city must be effortless.
A. slighted
B. ignored
C. lauded
D. disparaged
E. confounded
F. commended

52.（48-3）The description of humans as having an internal clock is not a (i)______. Or

rather, it is—you do not have a tiny watch in your cerebellum—but it also refers to
(ii)______ , a specialized bundle of cells that regulates cyclical processes.
A. euphemism D. an elusive psychological phenomenon
B. cliché E. a standard literary trope
C. metaphor F. a real biological feature

53.（48-9）Scientist reported last month on a sign of relative solar______ ; the solar wind,
a rush of charged particles continually spewed from the Sun at a million miles an hour,
had diminished to its lowest level in 50 years.
A. quiescence
B. turbulence
C. isolation
D. calm
E. remoteness
F. instability

54.（49-7）While normal floods resulting from usual monsoon rainfall are______ the
growth of crops, recently there has been an increase in the frequency of high-intensity
floods that do not have such welcome effects.
A. conducive to
B. hindered by
C. devastating for
D. deleterious for
E. essential for
F. indispensable to

55.（53-10）______ the notion that attention is a limited resource, scientists have found
lots of evidence that drivers with cell phones drives slower and are more apt to miss
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important details than drivers who drive solely on the road.

A. controverting
B. buttressing
C. questioning
D. bolstering
E. perpetuating
F. refuting

56.（56-8）Because chemistry’s position as one of the natural sciences has long

seemed______ , historians have generally treated the foundation of chemical
professorship as an inevitable component of the progression of universities.
A. manifest
B. impregnable
C. relevant
D. predictable
E. germane
F. self-evident

57.（59-7）Given the______ of solid case studies of environment degradation, this new

study adds very little to our knowledge of the field.
A. erroneousness
B. plethora
C. surfeit
D. inaccuracy
E. rigor
F. outcome

58.（60-3）As the pace of the trial (i)______ , the wait at the beginning of the day became
less interminable, and the attorneys’ requests to suspend proceeding for private
conferences with the judge, almost invariably granted early on, were routinely (ii)______ .
A. slowed D. rebuff
B. materialized E. repeated

C. accelerated F. recounted

59.（63-3）While in their consideration of the unique way athletics and academics are
combined in United States universities, Markovits and Rensmann do not (i)______
Gumbrecht’s idealizing vision of the compatibility of college athletics with the intellectual
missions of institutions of higher learning, neither do they regard college athletics as
(ii)______ : they believe that big-time sports have a rightful place in university life.
A. fully endorse D. indispensable

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B. intentionally recapitulate E. venal

C. entirely misconstrue F. profitable

60.（64-3）In the years prior to the Civil War, Philadelphia’s African American press
encourage readers to be vaccinated against smallpox. This journalistic campaign was
initially (i)______ , appealing to readers sense of communal duty, and became even more
(ii)______ once the war started, as smallpox outbreaks began to occur on Philadelphia’s
outskirts.
A. hortatory D. controversial

B. ineffective E. urgent

C. widespread F. inopportune

61.（65-6）Industry sponsored scientific research on chemical safety often (i)______ .

Media reports regularly imply that industry support of scientific work is alone sufficient to
(ii)______ that research. Even though the source of funding has been determined to be a
less significant cause of bias than other factors, industry support suffices, in the minds of
many people, to (iii)______ the credibility of scientific work.
A. uncovers risks D. fund G. adopt

B. elicits skepticism E. vindicate H. vitiate

C. promotes innovation F. invalidate I. bolster

62.（67-6）In medieval Europe, watermills were more (i)______ than windmills. It is true
that windmills could be built virtually anywhere, whereas watermills (ii)______ . However,
watermills’ greater capacity and reliability provided a better (iii)______ the money
required to build the mill.
A. problematic D. were suitable only for certain locations G. source of

B. profitable E. inspired a variety of new technologies H. adjunct to

C. versatile F. required a good deal of upkeep I. return on

63.（68-7）Because archaeology explores the most profound changes in human history

by means of a grossly incomplete record; it has invited the sort of bold, imaginative
interpretation in which speculation too easily becomes______ evidence.
A. replaced by
B. constrained by
C. untethered from
D. divorced from
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E. substituted for
F. constricted by

64.（68-9）For certain economists, “pure” economic theory, that is, economic theory______
a specific social structure, is impossible, much like a concept of anatomy that investigates
no specific species.
A. attuned to
B. abstracted from
C. derived from
D. divorced from
E. sensitive to
F. analyzed in

65.（69-3）Throughout much of the twentieth century, common scientific sense seemed

to dictate that animals could not make a choice based on rational or aesthetic criteria.
Such choices were (i)______ the mental capacity of humans. Scientists who (ii)______ this
animal-human cognitive division were often accused of anthropomorphism.
A. reserved for D. accepted
B. inconsistent with E. transgressed
C. similar to F. exacerbated

66.（70-5）Cynics will dismiss the race between Richard and Gorman as two equally dull
candidates. However, the notion that the two leaders are (i)______ does not meet them,
for they are as different as can be. Richard is (ii)______ and is fastidious of her appearance.
So one could hardly accuse her of being either taciturn or (iii)______ .
A. interchangeable D. condescending G. unkempt

B. uncritical E. loquacious H. reticent

C. competent F. blunted I. adherent

67.（71-9）The astronomer admits that his interpretation of so-called Population III stars
is______ at present since no one has yet done any real calculations to see if it holds up
under closer scrutiny.
A. spurious
B. speculative
C. predictive
D. conjectural
E. fabricated
F. implausible

68.（73-4）There has been (i)______ elephant’s fabled mental capacities until recently,
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when these behavioral observations have begun to be (ii)______ by brain science. MRI
scans of an elephant’s brain suggest that even relative to its overall size it has a large
hippocampus, the component in the mammalian brain linked to memory and an
important part of its limbic system, which is involved in processing emotions.
A. surprising credence given to D. buttressed

B. a widespread dismissal of E. anticipated

C. only anecdotal evidence for F. overwhelmed

69.（74-3）The novel’s heroine shows a remarkable (i)______ to worship at the altar of

youth; in her world, youth is (ii)______, while age, by contrast, confers competence and
wisdom.
A. disinclination D. incredulous

B. desire E. sagacious
C. tendency F. callow

70.（77-1）In an ironic twist, the recent______ of the reductive observational methods that
have enabled science to progress for four centuries may turn out to be science’s biggest
step forward.
A. introduction
B. validation
C. acceptance
D. standardization
E. questioning

71.（77-8）Flash floods are common in desert regions and were widespread before the
evolution of trees and woodland soils; in contrast, flash floods are______ in woodlands,
where floodwaters, impeded by trees, form ponds.
A. overshadowed
B. redirected
C. obscured
D. precluded
E. mitigated
F. abated

72.（79-3）Britain’s Queen Victoria, however (i)______ she had been at the beginning of
her reign, was politically much more (ii)______ by the end of her time on the throne, as
she resigned herself to the emergence of an increasing powerful electorate that
prevented her from stubbornly insisting on getting her own way in matters of state.
A. naïve D. powerful

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B. personable E. arbitrary

C. obdurate F. malleable

73.（79-5）To get funding and tenured positions, medical researchers have to get their
work published in well-regarded journals, where rejection can climb above 90 percent.
Not surprisingly, the studies that tend to make the grade are those that make (i)______
claims. But while coming up with such (ii)______ claims is relatively easy, getting the data
to bear them out is another matter. When studied rigorously, the great majority of these
claims (iii)______ .
A. well-supported D. practical G. yield contradictory
evidence
B. eye-catching E. orthodox H. require extensive analysis
C. small-scale F. striking I. support conventional
beliefs
74.（80-3）As cheaper imports drove most California potteries out of business during the
1950s, one company (i)______ . The substantial size and weight of the specialized
products produced by Architectural Pottery helped (ii)______ the company, because it
was uneconomical for foreign companies to ship similarly large objects to California.
A. stagnated D. transform

B. diversified E. insulate
C. flourished F. finance

75.（80-10）Benjamin Franklin’s reputation is so much one of appearing scientific

investigation with commonsense empiricism that it is somewhat startling to realize
how______ the great experiment’s mentoring truly was.
A. reasonable
B. speculative
C. pragmatic
D. conjectural
E. careless
F. judicious

76.（81-1）The chairman, faced with the need to forge a consensus on a number of

proposals, acknowledged that it would be difficult to reconcile the push for a radical
overhaul with the stance of those who want______ change.
A. deliberate
B. indiscriminate
C. genuine
D. immediate
E. wholesale

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77.（82-2）A curiosity of the film Vertigo is its capacity to generate emotional power from
a plot that lacks the most of elementary______ : viewers are required to accept not an
isolated implausibility, but a continuous stream of them.
A. believability
B. impact
C. narrative
D. tension
E. premise

78.（82-8）His own writing style was______ : colorful and tart in its choice of language,
willing to run risks in its allusions, metaphors, and verbal juxtapositions, prone to
irreverent conclusions designed to surprise or startle.
A. effusive
B. audacious
C. lyrical
D. striking
E. ornate
F. emotional

79.（85-4）Just as large manufacturing companies with dominant positions in large

domestic markets were once able to resist (i)______ despite ample signs that foreign
competition was rapidly overtaking them, strong and wealthy states can (ii)______ and still
manage to limp along for many years.
A. innovation D. exploit vulnerable markets

B. temptation E. dominate international affairs

C. inertia F. maintain misguided policies

80.（87-10）Estimating demographic parameters in marine mammals is challenging, often

requiring many years of data to achieve sufficient precision to______ biologically
meaningful change.
A. effect
B. tolerate
C. discern
D. envisage
E. withstand
F. detect

81.（88-1）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______ .
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A. elusive
B. undiminished
C. unfathomable
D. unexpected
E. derivative

82.（88-3）Not only is the field of behavioral genetics strewn with (i)______ findings, but
even among those findings that managed to survive, many have turned out to be
(ii)______ a very restricted class of cases.
A. convergent D. refuted by

B. disparate E. germane to
C. repudiated F. subordinate to

83.（89-6）Some climatologists dismiss as (i)______ the debate among geophysicists over

the role of carbon dioxide in global climate change across many millions of years. These
climatologists say the evidence of a tie between carbon dioxide and planetary warming
over the last few centuries is so (ii)______ that any longer-term evidence against such a
link must somehow be (iii)______ .
A. unavoidable D. unlikely G. tainted

B. irrelevant E. controversial H. accommodated

C. undecidable F. compelling I. reinforced

84.（90-8）Recent research runs counter to the long-cherished notion that a small drop
in body temperature during and after surgery is either______ or actually protects the
patient by slowing metabolism and reducing the body’s demand for blood and oxygen.
A. beneficial
B. immaterial
C. inconsequential
D. preventive
E. prophylactic
F. redundant

85.（91-5/109-6）Since the 1920s, historical fiction writers in China have emancipated the
genre from the traditional notion that (i)______ was the ultimate goal of history writing.
Yet the traditional commitment to (ii)______ was not simply (iii)______ : this new genre was
expected to capture the essence of historical truth even as it allowed space for the
writer’s imagination.
A. comprehensiveness D. veracity G. jettisoned
B. factuality E. thoroughness H. rationalized

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C. entertainment F. pleasure I. acknowledged

86.（94-9）The sailors realized too late that winds had shifted the ice in such a way as to
obstruct the ship’s path; this process had been so______ that it was completed by the
time they discovered the effect.
A. gradual
B. negligible
C. unpredictable
D. time-consuming
E. inconsequential
F. imperceptible

87（96-2）While the current coffee craze was sparked by the emergence of flavorful,
high-quality gourmet varieties, a slew of studies suggesting that concerns about coffee’s
health effects may be______ has nurtured the trend.
A. underemphasized
B. exacerbated
C. unfounded
D. documented
E. recapitulated

88.（96-3）In a sharp blow to his reputation as (i)_____ leader, the evidence that the mayor
has recently been involved in malfeasance seems to be (ii)______ .
A. a partisan D. fabricated
B. an unsuccessful E. sound
C. an exemplary F. dubious

89.（98-9）The spacecraft’s considerable heft forces an unusually______ route that

meanders through the solar system and depends on the gravitational pull of three
heavenly bodies.
A. predetermined
B. circuitous
C. indirect
D. truncated
E. shortened
F. sequential

90.（100-2）The assumption that children learn about science primarily in the classroom
is so______ that few scientists, educators or policymakers question it, despite an
ever-growing body of evidence demonstrating that most science is learnt outside of
school.
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A. tenuous
B. subtle
C. irrefutable
D. pervasive
E. misconstrued

91.（101-3）Though she had some exposure to great art and high culture, it must be said
the ultra athletic Marion Carstairs remained throughout her life primarily (i)______ mental
and artistic pursuits. She was by nature (ii)______ .
A. a product of D. neither bookish nor cerebral
B. indifferent to E. a model of delicacy and refinement

C. obsessed with F. both didactic and argumentative

92.（102-7）Since Venus and Earth are so similar in their mass and density, Mueller
suggested that the two planets have similar compositions and, therefore there must be
surface features on Venus that have terrestrial______ .
A. causes
B. consequences
C. counterparts
D. parallels
E. properties
F. outcomes

93.（103-1）The sand paintings that McCall created—a synthesis of painting, sculpture,

and photography— were meant to be______ , preserved only in the memories of
witnesses.
A. archetypal
B. incendiary
C. ephemeral
D. naturalistic
E. dazzling

94.（103-5）The essential difference between writing nonfiction and fiction is that the
artist can (i)______ a completed vision of the world, while the journalist never can, the real
world being always (ii)______ . Art provides freedom from the bewildering complexities of
constant change. Indeed, it is the very (iii)______ of well-wrought fiction that can
sometimes make it fell more real than reality.
A. shun D. diverting G. popularity
B. correct E. tragic H. rarity
C. realize F. unfinished I. clarity
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95.（103-10）Because the literary club often trumpeted itself as a sanctuary for temperate
discussion, visitors were startled by the frequently______ tone of its recent debates.
A. blunt
B. ingratiating
C. acerbic
D. unctuous
E. vitriolic
F. bombastic

96.（104-5）Give a computer (i)______ task—winning at chess, say, or predicting the

weather—and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are
(ii)______ , or require combining varied sources, computers are (iii)______ human
intelligence.
A. a well-defined D. nuanced G. no match for
B. a random E. inconsequential H. unyielding to
C. an open-ended F. solvable I. able to dwarf

97.（107-1）Once so fluid, the political situation had, two years after the declaration of
the Republic, ______ so much that further change seemed inconceivable.
A. revitalized
B. warmed
C. intensified
D. clotted
E. destabilized

98.（108-8）Although traditionally artists have rightly been seen as the most______

audience for the work of their colleagues, today taste is also created by critics and
curators and occasionally by collectors.
A. arbitrary
B. volatile
C. perceptive
D. impulsive
E. subjective
F. discerning

99.（110-2）Notwithstanding a lack of______ , nineteenth-century anthologies such as

Evert and George Duyckinck’s Cyclopaedia of American Literature represents serious
attempts to collect the national writings up to that point as a way of establishing the
viability of American letters.
A. bias
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B. earnestness
C. rigor
D. ambition
E. ambiguity

100.（110-4）For a genre that’s supposed to be about the future, science fiction has
certainly (i)______ lately, (ii)______ is what sells best, with readers spending their money on
sequels to long-running series.
A. become quite pessimistic D. suspense
B. been looking backward E. fantasy
C. anticipated technological developments F. nostalgia

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