5. Readers may initially be irked by the book’s apparent (i)_______, but, once immersed in the author’s prose, they may come to regard the work’s (ii)_______ as an asset. 【分析】 ① 通读句子，读者也许一开始会因为这...

4. The author argued that the field of sociology has been overly (i)_______, partly because, for many scholars, the edges of the social universe are defined by national borders. In this era of increasing globalization, however, sociology is...

3. While people complain about their hectic lives and demanding schedules, one might be justified in suspecting that they are being somewhat (i)_______: compulsive busyness seems to be, for many, a source of (ii)_______. 【分析】 ① 第一...

2. While the writer was best known for her much-ballyhooed _______, her impact reached far beyond memorable quips. A. pensiveness B. drollness C. stoicism D. fastidiousness E. congeniality 【分析】 ① 两句话逻辑连接词为while引导...

1. In a production process that is complex and often unpredictable, roles that start out discretely defined may become quite _______. A. confused B. perfunctory C. independent D. overt E. exacting 【分析】 ① 注意become（变得）的用...

10. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks surprisingly ______, even though it is a cold, dimly lit world made from unknown materials. A. habitable B. familiar C. forbidding D. placid E. daunting F. recognizable 【分析】 ① 两句话的逻...

9. Shifting Fortunes take a conventional approach to American union history by simply explaining the reasons behind union growth and decline in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: it is a chronologically and thematically ______ study an...

8. Even overt deficiencies in the author’s work have not ______ its respectful reception by most modern critics. A. tainted B. hindered C. superseded D. inhibited E. proscribed F. forbidden 【分析】 ① 两句话的逻辑连接部分为...

7. Although scientific progress leads to constant revision of ideas, one observation that has remained ______ over the years is that there are a lot of insects in the world: some 950,000 species have been identified. A. robust B. significan...

6. For Plato the art of music was so (i)______ moral and political reality that any alteration to music system would necessarily require a corresponding political shift. But two and a half millennia later, when classical music is generally...