填空易错题

There may be a threshold below which blood pressure reductions become ______ given that

a long-running study showed no decreased heart risk for drops in blood pressure below a

certain point.

(A) worthwhile

(B) indiscernible

(C) arduous

(D) significant

(E)

superfluous

Dramaticliterature often ______ the history of a culture in that it takes as its subject matter

the important events that have shaped and guided the culture.

(A) confounds

(B) repudiates

(C)

recapitulates

(D) anticipates

(E) polarizes

Fe

male video artists’ rise to prominence over the past 30 years has ______ the ascent of

video as an art form: it is only within the past three decades that video art has attained its

current, respected status.

(A)

matched

(B) politicized

(C)

paralleled

(D) obviated

(E) accelerated

(F) forestalled

The current (i) ______ of format in electronic scholarly publication will not last beyond the

point when amateur burnout occurs and amateurs are replaced by traditional publishing

companies: in an effort to reduce costs through economies of scale, publishing firms tend

toward (ii) _____ in the format of their electronic publication projects.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)

(A)

diversity

(D)

homogeneity

(B) monotony(E) sophistication

(C) refinement(F) extremes

Only with the discovery of an ozone hole over Antarctica in 1985 did chemical companies

finally relinquish their opposition to a ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which destroy

ozone. The discovery suggested that strong political action to halt production of CFCs might

be (i) ______, and fortunately, the chemical industry no longer felt compelled to oppose such

action: although companies had recently (ii) ______ their research into CFC substitutes,

studies they had initiated years earlier had produced (iii) ______ results.

Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)

(A)

imminent

(D) corroborated (G)

encouraging

(B) imprudent(E) publicized (H) inconclusive

(C) premature(F)

curtailed

(I) unsurprising

Clearly the government faced a dilemma: it could hardly ______ trials, especially in the

absence of irrefutable evidence, but it also would not welcome, in the midst of war, the

scandal that would arise if trials were avoided.

(A)

be keen on

(B)

be inclined to

(C) arrange

(D) dispense with

(E) turn its back on

(F) credit

Putting a cash value on the ecological services provided by nature

─

such as the water

filtration

“

servi ce

”

provided by a forested watershed

─

has, historically, been a (i) ______

process. Early attempts at such valuation results in impressive but (ii) ______ figures that

were seized on by environmental advocates and then, when these figures were later (iii)

______, they were used by opponents to tar the whole idea.

Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)

(A) dispassionate(D) redundant (G) ignored

(B)

problematic

(E)

unsound

(H)

discredited

(C) straightforward(F) understated(I) confirmed

But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty,

refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming (i) ______, thereby embarrassing

the nation and undermining the Constitution, which established various mechanisms of

self- correction on the premise that even the wisest men are sometimes wrong and need,

precisely when they find it most (ii) ______, the benefit of (iii) ______ process.

Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)

(A)

infallibility

(D)

discomfiting

(G) an adaptable

(B) immunity(E) expedient (H)

a remedial

(C) impartiality(F) imminent (I) an injudicious

Stories are a haunted genre; hardly (i) ______ kind of story, the ghost story is almost the

paradigm of the form, and (ii) ______ was undoubtedly one effect that Poe had in mind when

he wrote about how stories work.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)

(A)

a debased

(D) pessimism

(B) a normative (E)

goosebumps

(C) a meticulous (F) curiosity

The most striking thing about the politician is how often his politics have been (i) ______

rather than ideological, as he adapts his political positions at any particular moment to the

political realities that constrain him. He does not, however, piously (ii) _______ political

principles only to betray them in practice. Rather, he attempts in subtle ways to balance his

political self-interest with a (iii) ______, viewing himself as an instrument of some

unchanging higher purpose.

Blank (i)Blank (ii) Blank (iii)

(A) quixotic(D)

brandish

(G) profound cynicism

(B) self- righteous(E) flout(H)

deeply felt moral code

(C)

strategic

(F) follow (I) thoroughgoing pragmatism