5. For many years, Americans have had a love affair with ferryboats. Ferries are said to relieve our frayed nerves after we’ve stewed in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and conventional wisdom also says ferries (i)______ congestion and air poll...

4. The politician’s record while in office, though (i)______, hardly accounts for her high standing three decades later—a standing all the more (ii)______ because of continuing assaults on her reputation during those years. 【分析】...

3. The era’s examples of ______ that are cited by the author can be balanced in part by certain examples of dissent during the same period. A. diversity B. authoritarianism C. forbearance D. volatility E. lucidity 【分析】 ① 注意b...

2. In modern times, friendship has become a ______ relationship: a form of connection in terms of which all are understood and against which all are measured. A. conciliatory B. mercenary C. paradigmatic D. contentious E. supplementary 【分...

1. That Seiberg and Witten lack celebrity can be explained by the ______ nature of their pursuit: the mathematical exploration of four-dimensional space. A. pedestrian B. esoteric C. compelling D. global E. unequivocal 【分析】 ① 两句...

10. Compared to their predecessors, who were more nationalist than feminist in political orientation, Roman women activists of the younger generation are more inclined to ______women’s rights, often creating organizations focused primaril...

9. Circulatory systems on organisms originated in widely separated epochs, according to the fossil record, and under a broad range of circumstances, the myriad forms they take attest to that ______ of origin. A. mysteriousness B. randomness...

8. Though Edmund certainly had a dignified bearing and made a great first impression, those who became acquainted with him soon realized he had an essentially ______ nature. A. pugnacious B. deliberate C. punctilious D. courteous E. complac...

7. Scientists should hope the faults in their theories will be ______ their peers since the refutation of one hypothesis can free its originator to develop a better one. A. discerned by B. disregarded by C. discovered by D. ignored by E. op...

6. Inuit print making is less (i)______ than carving in that it does not have substantial historical precedents, although there are (ii)______ incised carvings on bone or antler, facial tattoo marks, or inlay skin work on clothing, mitts an...