填空 (恢复)9

單格填空

1.

James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson is generally thought to have established Boswell as the first great

modern biographer; yet the claim of ______ could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard

Savage.

(A) partisanship

(C) precedence

(E) perseverance

(B) omniscience

(D) opportunism

2.

Most

spacecraft

are

still

at

little

risk

of

collision

with

space

debris

during

their

operational

lifetimes,

but

given the numbers of new satellites launched each year, the orbital environment in the future is likely to be less

______.

(A) crowded

(C) protected

(E) benign

(B) invulnerable

(D) polluted

3.

The epidemiologist was worried: despite ______ signs of danger, few countries or companies had taken the

possibility of a pandemic seriously, and there was little interest in developing a vaccine.

(A) erroneous

(C) token

(E) residual

(B) mounting

(D) inconclusive

4.

The author presents the life of Zane Grey with ______ unusual in a biographer: he is not even convinced

that Grey was a good writer.

(A) a zeal

(C) a detachment

(E) an imaginativeness

(B) a deftness

(D) an eloquence

5.

The book’s seemingly casually written, conversational style masks ______ structure.

(A) a loosely organized

(C) an overly diffuse

(E) an unconventionally informal

(B) a somewhat rambling

(D) a shrewdly crafted

6.

This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their aesthetic qualities rather

than for their ______ ones.

(A) polemical

(C) narrative

(E) dramatic

(B) cinematic

(D) commercial

7.

Burke is often on slippery ground when it comes to her primary sources; especially ______ is the mode by

which she gathered her oral evidence.

(A) crucial

(C) dubious

(E) ingenious

(B) passable

(D) laudable

8.

Although grandiose urban railroad stations are often viewed as glorious monuments to their cities, they in

fact ______ the cities by enabling the migration of city dwellers to the suburbs.

(A) invigorate

(C) enfeeble

(E) overshadow

(B) enlarge

(D) delineate

雙格填空

1.

The unironic representation of objects from everyday life is (i) ______ serious American art of the twentieth

century:

“high”

artists

ceded

the

straightforward

depiction

of

th

e

(ii)

______

to

illustrators,

advertisers,

and

packaging designers.

Blank (i)

(A) missing from

(B) valued in

Blank (ii)

(D) beautiful

(E) commonplace

(C) crucial to

(F) complex

2.

Television promotes (i) ______ of emotion in viewers through an unnatural evocation, every five minutes,

of different and (ii) ______ feelings.

Blank (i)

(A) a withdrawal

(B) an obscuring

(C) a discontinuity

Blank (ii)

(D) incompatible

(E) sympathetic

(F) interminable

3.

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)

(A) diversity

(B) monotony

(C) refinement

Blank (ii)

(D) homogeneity

(E) sophistication

(F) extremes

4.

Because

we

assume

the

(i)

______

of

natural

design,

nature

can

often

(ii)

______

us:

as

the

Wright

brothers noted, the birds initially misled them in almost every particular, but their Flyer eventually succeeded by

being the least avian of the early flying machines.

Blank (i)

(A) quirkiness

(B) preeminence

(C) maladroitness

Blank (ii)

(D) galvanize

(E) befriend

(F) beguile

5.

Though

somewhat

less

(i)

______

than

previous

chapters

and

suffering

from

a

minor

rash

of

academic

jargon, the final chapter of the book is nonetheless (ii) ______ laypeople.

Blank (i)

(A) arcane

(B) coherent

(C) subjective

Blank (ii)

(D) largely ignored by

(E) accessible to

(F) impenetrable to

6.

Although he has long had a reputation for (i) ______, his behavior toward his coworkers has always been (ii)

______, suggesting he may not be as insolent as people generally think.

Blank (i)

(A) inscrutability

(B) venality

(C) impudence

Blank (ii)

(D) brazen

(E) courteous

(F) predictable

7.

The

Parisian

Ecole

des

Beaux-Arts

(School

of

Fine

Arts)

was

(i)

______

many

nineteenth-

and

twentieth-

century artists, so that by 1930 the associated term “academic art” had become a (ii) ______.

Blank (i)

(A) influential among

(B) ridiculed by

(C) attended by

Blank (ii)

(D) pejorative

(E) conundrum

(F) misnomer

三格填空

1.

While

the

cerulean

warbler’s

status

maybe

particularly

(i)

______,

it

is

just

one

of

the

many

species

of

migrant birds whose numbers have been (ii) ______ for years. Increasingly, biologists investigating the causes

of these (iii) ______ are focusing on habitat loss in the Tropics, where the birds spend the winter.

Blank (i)

(A) precarious

(B) secure

(C) representative

Blank (ii)

(D) underreported

(E) falling

(F) copious

Blank (iii)

(G) pairings

(H) migrations

(I) declines

2.

The recent publication of the painter Robert Motherwell’s substantial body of writing, as well as writings by

fellow Expressionist Barnett Newman, (i) ______ Ann Gibson’s assertion that the

Abstract Expressionists were

reluctant to (ii) ______ issues of artistic meaning in their work and suggests that this supposed reticence was

perhaps more artistic (iii) ______ than historical fact.

Blank (i)

(A) substantiates

(B) undermines

(C) overlooks

Blank (ii)

(D) forgo

(E) articulate

(F) conceal

Blank (iii)

(G) conscience

(H) focus

(I) posturing

3.

If

one

could

don

magic

spectacles

—

with

lenses

that

make

the

murky

depths

of

the

ocean

become

transparent

—

and look back several centuries to an age before widespread abuse of the oceans began, even the

most (i) ______ observer would quickly discover that fish were formerly much more abundant. Likewise, many

now-depleted

species

of

marine

mammals

would

appear

(ii)

______.

But

without

such

special

glasses,

the

differences between past and present oceans are indeed hard to (iii) ______.

Blank (i)

(A) casual

(B) prescient

(C) clearheaded

Blank (ii)

(D) threatened

(E) plentiful

(F) unfamiliar

Blank (iii)

(G) ignore

(H) discern

(I) dismiss

4.

This

book’s

strengths

are

the

author’s

breadth

of

knowledge

and

the

blending

of

ideas

and

findings

from

many disciplines, including history, the arts and the sciences. Ideas from diverse perspectives are (i) ______ to

provide a historical and cross-cultural understanding. But a weakness of the book is its (ii) ______: sometimes

there are leaps from one domain to another that (iii) ______ the reader’s ability to synthesize a coherent view of

our current understanding of this subject.

Blank (i)

(A) hyperbolized

(B) interwoven

(C) reversed

Blank (ii)

(D) organization

(E) intensity

(F) uniformity

Blank (iii)

(G) exaggerate

(H) oversimplify

(I) undercut

5.

There

is

nothing

that

(i)

______

scientists

more

than

having

an

old

problem

in

their

field

solved

by

someone

from

outside.

If

you

doubt

this

(ii)

______,

just

think

about

the

(iii)

______

reaction

of

paleontologists

to

the

hypothesis

of

Luis

Alvarez

—

a

physicist

—

and

Walter

Alvarez

—

a

geologist

—

that

the

extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the impact of a large meteor on the surface of the planet.

Blank (i)

(A) amazes

(B) pleases

(C) nettles

Blank (ii)

(D) exposition

(E) objurgation

(F) observation

Blank (iii)

(G) contemptuous

(H) indifferent

(I) insincere

6.

Historical

research

makes

two

somewhat

antithetical

truths

that

sounded

(i)

______

come

to

seem

profound: ______ knowledge of the past comes entirely from written documents, giving written words great (ii)

______, and the more material you uncover, the more (iii) ______ your subject becomes.

Blank (i)

(A) deep

(B) portentous

(C) banal

Blank (ii)

(D) consequence

(E) antiquity

(F)simultaneity

Blank (iii)

(G) elusive

(H) contemporary

(I) circumstantial

7.

Moore was (i) ______ ill at ease. His (ii) ______ had always been a distinguishing feature. It was what

made

him

a

good

con

artist

and

a

good

informant.

He

was

one

of

those

men

who

accepted

dares

with

an

easygoing smile and did outrageous things with (iii) ______ that made him successful in the dangerous world in

which he operated. But just now he was not feeling very sure of himself.

Blank (i)

(A)

uncharacteristically

(B) predictably

(C) naturally

Blank (ii)

(D) disquietude

(E) magnanimity

(F) aplomb

Blank (iii)

(G) an obvious clumsiness

(H)

a

fearlessness

sophisticated

(I) a wary vigilance

8.

The journalism professor’s first lecture tackled (i) ______ itself, challenging the journalistic trope that an

article

has

to

represent

all

sides

—

no

matter

how

marginal

—

equally.

Instead,

the

professor

argued

that

this

impulse to (ii) ______ even obviously (iii) ______ views in order to furnish opposing perspectives is harmful

to basic accuracy.

Blank (i)

(A) marketability

(B) objectivity

(C) partisanship

Blank (ii)

(D) approve

(E) present

(F)denigrate

Blank (iii)

(G) controversial

(H) fringe

(I) straightforward

9.

An esteemed literary critic, Mr. Wood has put together a (i) ______ volume about literary technique, his

playful exuberance (ii) ______ the dry, jargon-

strewn tradition of academic criticism. Mr. Wood can’t claim to

be (iii) ______; he has restricted himself to citations available in his personal library. Nor does he attempt to be

methodical, as chapters proceed in higgledy-piggledy fashion. But few books about novel writing provide such

insights into the craft.

Blank (i)

(A) deft

(B) pretentious

(C) comprehensive

Blank (ii)

(E) heavily influenced by

(F) largely superseded by

Blank (iii)

(H) accessible

(I) thorough

(D) wonderfully at odds with

(G) entertaining

句子等價

1.

The spy’s repeated bungling was, above all else, ______ those who wished to thwart her efforts, since it was

so unpredictable as to obscure any pattern that might otherwise lead to her capture.

(A) an obstacle to

(C) a hindrance to

(E) a snare for

(B) a signal to

(D) an indication for

(F) a boon to

2.

Female 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

3.

Although

the

film

is

rightly

judged

imperfect

by

most

of

today’s

critics,

the

films

being

created

today

are

______

it,

since

its

release

in

1940

provoked

sufficient

critical

discussion

to

enhance

the

intellectual

respectability of cinema considerably.

(A) beholden to

(C) derivative of

(E) distinguishable from

(B) indebted to

(D) based on

(F) biased against

4.

The detective’s conviction that there were few inept crimes in her district led her to impute some degree of

______ to every suspect she studied.

(A) deceit

(C) duplicity

(E) evasiveness

(B) acumen

(D) shrewdness

(F) equivocation

5.

Alkan steadfastly refused to ______ her responsibilities as an author: for her an author had to be fearless

and committed, and she was always both.

(A) undertake

(C) disclose

(E) rationalize

(B) shirk

(D) reveal

(F) neglect

6.

If

emissions

of

heat-trapping

gases

continue

to

accumulate

in

the

atmosphere

at

the

current

rate,

Earth

could

experience

global

transformations,

and

while

some

of

these

changes

might

be

______

many

could

be

downright disruptive.

(A) catastrophic

(C) intolerable

(E) modest

(B) calamitous

(D) irremediable

(F) unremarkable

7.

It may be that most of this film footage was shown somewhere, but the documentary is designed to make

audiences feel that this footage has never been seen, or that, having been seen, it was deliberately ______.

(A) censored

(C) suppressed

(E) counterfeited

(B) imitated

(D) underscored

(F) misrepresented

8.

Philby secretly loathed the host of the party that he was attending, but it seemed ______ to say so publicly.

(A) recondite

(C) clever

(E) deft

(B) tactless

(D) malign

(F) impolitic

9.

The slower-learning monkeys searched ______ but unintelligently: although they worked closely together,

they checked only the most obvious hiding places.

(A) competitively

(C) cooperatively

(E) craftily

(B) impulsively

(D) deviously

(F) harmoniously

10.

The

report’s

most

significant

weakness

is

its

assumption

that

the

phenomenon

under

study

is

______,

when in reality it is limited to a specific geographic area.

(A) unusual

(C) ubiquitous

(E) universal

(B) exceptional

(D) absolute

(F) restricted

11.

By about age eight, children’s phonetic capacities are fully developed but still ______; thus children at that

age can learn to spea

k a new language with a native speaker’s accent.

(A) plastic

(C) inarticulate

(E) nascent

(B) vestigial

(D) unformed

(F) malleable

12.

Each member of the journalistic pair served as ______ the other: each refrained from publishing a given