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1、Turn to section5(page5) of your answer sheet to answer the question in this sectionDirections: for each question in this section, select the best answer from the choice given and fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating tha
2、t something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best first the meaning of the sentence as a whole.Example:Hoping to-the dispute ,negotiators proposed a compromise that they fe
3、lt would be -to both labor and management.(A) Enforce.useful(B) End.divisive(C) Overcome.unattractive(D) Extend.satisfactory(E) Resolve. acceptable A B C D1. The scientist warned that global warming might _ a dangerous _ of some mosquito-borne diseases, resulting in an increasing number of epidemics
4、 around the world. A. precededecline B. stimulateresurgence C. eliminateplague D. deterexpansion E. inducequarantine 2. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the era when Pueblo pottery was least likely to be _ and from which, consequently, the fewest authentic examples _.A. discoveredorigin
5、ate B. preservedsurvive C. promoteddisappear D. counterfeitedpersist E. mishandledendure 3. Some psychologists argue that a _ of choices can be paralyzing, since too many options can impede meaningful selection. A. prohibition B. manifestation C. misapplication D. modicum E. plethora4. His goal was
6、to _ the committees deliberations, and a measure of his success was the ease with which a decision was reached. A. translate B. obfuscate C. facilitate D. debilitate E. exacerbate 5. The Classical Age of Greece, 500 B.C.to 323 B.C., was characterized by contradictions: it was a mix of superstition a
7、nd _, of _ concepts and centuries-old traditions. A. intuitionradical B. rationalityrevolutionary C. reasonreputable D. revelationestablished E. conjectureprogressive 6. Celia Tomlinson personifies _: she overcame poverty, language barriers, and discrimination to found, own, and operate her own engi
8、neering company. A. tenacity B. nonchalance C. circumspection D. expediency E. munificence 7. The crude animated effects _ projected images from seventeenth-century lantern slides have now been recognized as _ of modern film animation. A. complemented byantecedents B. forestalled byharbingers C. dep
9、icted inderivatives D. featured inreplicasE. afforded byforerunners 8. The _ of impact craters on Venus suggests that erosion may have smoothed its surface over the past billion years. A. magnitude B. panoply C. spate D. ruggedness E. paucitySection 5Time-25minutes24questioinsGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGET
10、he passages below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that m
11、ay be providedQuestions 9-12 are based on the following passages.As a professional television critic, I have had to endure a forced, contractual separation from the discriminating TV viewers favorite phrase: You couldnt pay me to watch that. But thats how I feel about in miseries. To me, they are be
12、ach reading without the beach, airport reading with the airport. They last just the wrong amount of time they dont have the compressed energy of a short story, and theyre not expansive and open-ended, like a regular series or a novel. A miniseries is like an infomercialby the time you decide whether
13、 you want to buy the product, youve logged too many hours in front of the television. 9. The statement in lines 4-6 (“To me . airport”) serves to (A) advance an opinion through a comical story (B)justify a criticism by citing evidence (C) express a negative sentiment in humorous terms (D) analyze a
14、theory by citing everyday examples (E) note a pressing problem by describing its consequences 10. In lines 9-11 (A miniseries. television), the author makes use of which of the following? (A) Allusion (B) Analogy (C) Understatement (D) Personification (E) EuphemismQuestions 11-12 lire based on the f
15、ollowing passage. From the start, Cirque du Soleil was hardly a conventional circus. It had outrageous costumes, original music, and clever performers but no animal. Despite the dearth of beasts, it was a rousing success. Those initial decisions were brilliant, since they essentially redefined the g
16、enre. By not featuring animals, Cirque eliminated one of the most costly and controversial parts of any circus. And by shifting the focus from an event geared to kids to one designed for adults, Cirque pulled in an audience the traditional circus had never seen: adult theatergoers accustomed to paying st
