1. The cognitive flexibility of successful fictional detectives is often ____ by their cultural ambivalence: detectives' intellectual acumen, it seems, exists in direct proportion to their uneasy place in society.
A. spurned
B. spaded
C. spurred
D. matched
E. emaciated
答案：C
解析：这道题的意思是说成功的侦探非常灵活，这是他们的文化矛盾所____：他们的社会地位越是动荡，他们就越发敏锐。(a)唾弃(b)铲除(c)激励(d)匹配(e)消瘦。我们通过后半句可以知道，是社会地位的动荡使得侦探日益敏锐和灵活，对应选项C中：spurred。
2. Professor Ramfield describes in his recent book publishing as dark as it is deep, even as one hidebound industry, indeed, it is facing a profound change in its product model, but is so (i)___ its past as to be (ii)____opportunities offered by technological change.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. indebted in D. unable to seize
B. encumbered by E. capable of seeking
C. irrelevant with F. definite to circumvent
答案：BD
解析：这道题是说Ramfield教授在书里描述说，呆板的产业正在面临产品模型的巨大改变，但是它们太过(i)____过去，以至于(ii)______科技改变带来的机会。
空白(i) 空白(ii)
A负债的 D.不能抓住
B.被阻碍 E.可以寻找
C.无关 F.明确避免
可以看出i为B，ii为D，答案符合逻辑。
3. The history of the region's natural resources has been one of initial (i)___ followed by (ii)___; as such the region has over time gone from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. abundance D.rapacious depletion
B. depletion E.vain endeavor
C. scarcity F.one-sided reciprocity
答案：AD
解析：这道题是说该地区自然资源一开始(i)____，然后(ii)______;因为这个地区逐渐从资源丰富型经济转变到了资源依赖型经济。
空白(i) 空白(ii)
A.丰富 D.贪婪的耗尽
B.耗尽 E.徒劳的努力
C.稀少 F.单方面的互惠
可以看出i为A，ii为D，答案符合逻辑。
4. People accustomed to thinking that the human lifespan (i)_____________the outer bounds of animal longevity tend to dismiss tales of musket balls being found in the shells of living turtles. Samantha Romney，however，argues that while such stories may be (ii) ______________, some turtles do indeed exhibit a phenomenon known as “negligible (iii) _____________,” showing nosigns of aging even as they pass the two-century mark.
Blank (i)
A. belies
B. demarcates
C. antedates
Blank (ii)
A. apocryphal
B. authentic
C. heresy
Blank (iii)
A. rejuvenation
B. superannuation
C. senescence
答案：CAC
解析：这道题是说有些人认为人类寿命(i)____ 动物寿命的极限，通常不会理会乌龟壳上发现子弹的故事。然而Samantha Romney认为，这些故事可能(ii)______，但是一些乌龟确实呈现了一种现象叫做“可以忽略的(iii)______”，即使经过两个世纪也没有变老的迹象。
空白(i) 空白(ii) 空白(iii)
A.掩饰 A.虚构的但却能说明真相的 A.返老回童
B.划定 B.真实的 B.退休
C.先于 C.异端邪说 C.衰老
可以看出i为C，ii为A，iii为C，答案符合逻辑。
Despite being lionized for her uncanny ability toinhabit almost any role and, when necessary, injectit with genuine pathos, the actress, perhaps a bittoo self-effacingly, chalked her success up to nothingmore than a series of _____ occurrences.
A.ominous
B.untimely
C.fortuitous
D.foreseeable
E.chance
F.predictable
正确答案
C E
题目解析
"...uncanny ability...role" indicates that the actressis an amazing talent. The 'despite' shows us that theactress does not agree with this perception (noticeself-effacing). That is she does not think her successcan be chalked up to her talent, but to some outsideagent: in this case, lucky breaks, or fortuitous/chance occurrences.
(A) and (B) are too negative. (D) and (F), while synonyms, don't quite fit the context. How would a predictable occurrences be an alternative explanation for the actress's success?
While young elephants are typically given some_____ , mothers will often keep young calves in theirline of vision to ensure that an adult elephant isalways nearby.
A.discharge
B.latitude
C.incentive
D.independence
E.chastening
F.direction
正确答案
B D
题目解析
Mother elephants don't completely let little Dumbo goout of their sight (an adult is nearby), but themothers do offer young calves a small degree offreedom. (D) clearly works. A synonym, (B), meansthe freedom to move about, either in action ofthought (in this case, it is action).
(A) means to dismiss somebody. The young calves, however, are still with the mothers; theyare just not standing next to them.
(B) Answer.
(C) An incentive is something that motivates someone to follow an action. Is not supported bythe context.
(D) Answer.
(E) Means to give a little punishment, a tap on the wrist (or the trunk, as it were).
(F) Means guidance. This doesn't really match up with the context since nothing in thesentence is really guiding the young calf.
