1. Currently, pumps that could boost the natural pressure sufficiently to drive the crude through a pipeline to the shore do not work (i)____ because of the crude’s content. Crude may consist of oil or natural gas in (ii)___ states—combinations of liquids, gases, and solids under pressure—that do not reach the wellhead in (iii)___ proportions. The flow of crude oil, for example, can change quickly from 60 percent liquid to 70 percent gas.

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A consistently        D  monotonous       G constant

B simultaneously    E multiphase          H different

C successively         F derivative           I large

2. Because painting frescoes requires an unusually sophisticated hand, particularly in the representation of human form, the development of drawing skill was (i)___ to artistic training in Tuscany, and by 1500 the public there tended to distinguish artists on the basis of how well they could draw human figures. In Venice, a city virtually without frescoes, this kind of skill was acquired and (ii)___ much later. Gentile Bellini, for example, although regarded as one of the supreme painters of the day, was (iii)___ at drawing.

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A substantial           D reprimanded     G feeble

B circumstantial      E appreciated        H familiar

C peripheral            F transcribed         I virtuoso

3. Currently, legal scholars agree that in some cases legal rules do not specify a definite outcome. These scholars believe that such (i)___ results from the (ii)___of language: the boundaries of the application of a term are often unclear. Nevertheless, they maintain that the system of legal rules by and large rests on clear core meanings that do determine definite outcomes for most cases. Contrary to this view, an earlier group of legal philosophers, called “realists,” argued that (iii)___ pervades every part of the law.

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A definition                 D circumstantiality         G uncertainty

B indeterminacy          E vagueness                    H speculation

C homogeneousness   F nuance                          I enforceness

4. The kind of civil disobedience King had in mind was, in fact, quite different from Thoreau’s view of civil disobedience. Thoreau, like most other transcendentalists, was primarily interested in reform of the (i)___, whereas King was primarily interested in reform of society. As a protest against the

Mexican War, Thoreau refused to pay taxes, but he did not hope by his action to force a change in national policy. While he (ii)___ others to adopt similar protests, he did not attempt to mount any mass protest action against unjust laws. In contrast to Thoreau, King began to (iii)___ the use of mass civil disobedience to effect revolutionary changes within the social system.

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A government          D dismiss           G advocate

B individual             E encourage        H participate

C corporation          F undermine       I emulate

5. The old belief that climatic stability accounts for the high level of species diversity in the Amazon River basin of South America emerged, strangely enough, from observations of the deep sea. Sanders discovered high diversity among the mud-dwelling animals of the deep ocean. He argued that such diversity could be attributed to the absence of significant (i)___ in climate and physical conditions, without which the (ii)___ of species should be rare. In the course of time new species would continue to evolve, and so the rate of speciation would be greater than the rate of (iii)___, resulting in the accumulation of great diversity.

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A identifying              D consulting specifically on         G contrasts strikingly

B broadening              E focusing solely on                     H almost identifies

C linking                     F counting generally on                I antedates sharply

6. The advantages of (i)___ the scope of such studies is immediately apparent in Pelling and Webster’s study of sixteenth-century London. Instead of (ii)___ officially recognized and licensed practitioners, the researchers defined a medical practitioner as “any individual whose occupation is basically concerned with the care of the sick.” Using this definition, they found primary source information suggesting that there were 60 women medical practitioners in the city of London in 1560. Although this figure may be slightly exaggerated, the evidence (iii)___ with that of Gottfried, whose earlier survey identified only 28 women medical practitioners in all of England between 1330 and 1530.

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A consistency       D transmission                  G disappearance

B fluctuations        E extinction                      H generation

C duration              F advancement                 I continuation

7. Modern architecture has been criticized for emphasizing practical and technical issues at the expense of (i)___ concerns. The high-rise buildings constructed throughout the industrialized world in the 1960s and 1970s provide ample evidence that (ii)___ and utility have became the overriding concerns of the modern architect. However, Otto Wagner’s seminal text on modern architecture, first published in Germany in 1896, indicates that the failure of modern architecture cannot be (iii)___ on the ideals of its founders.

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A financial                    D superficiality    G blamed

B aesthetic                    E cost-efficiency  H analyzed

C structural                   F diversity           I exemplified

8. Most of Watteau’s nineteenth-century admirers simply ignored the (i)___ background of the works they found so lyrical and charming. Those who took the (ii)___ historical facts into consideration did so only in order to (iii)___ the widely held deterministic view that the content and style of an artist’s work were absolutely dictated by heredity and environment.

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A grim             D inconvenient        G refute

B obsolescent  E compatible           H exaggerate

C ludicrous      F longstanding         I review

9. The legislation of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the (i)___ inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintiff. The bill places the burden of proof in reclamation litigation entirely on the plaintiff, who must (ii)___ that the holder of an item knew at the time of purchase that it had been stolen. Therefore, the bill creates a uniform national statute of (iii)___ for reclamation of stolen cultural property.

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A constraints         D succeeded     G bonds

B anachronisms    E failed              H possibility

C jargons              F concerned       I definition

10. J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic (i)___ to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author’s conceptualization of this subject matter. Only the occasional epic theorist, like Machiavelli or Hobbes, (ii)___ in breaking out of these (iii)___ by redefining old terms and inventing new ones.

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A uncertainty      D demonstrate        G limitations

B redundancy      E avoid                   H enhancements

C availability       F speculate             I specificity

答案：AEG BEG ADG CFG BDH ADG AFI AFI BEG CFG

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