2. 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. amplified B. highli...

1. Baker set a new standard for explaining difficult art in language the public could understand; consequently, her books remain exemplars of ______ in art-historical analysis. A. fashion B. rigor C. lucidity D. erudition E. grandiosity 【分...

10. Since the data we have analyzed are so ______, it would be hazardous to draw a definite conclusion. A. copious B. overwhelming C. meager D. paltry E. abundant F. uncertain 【分析】 ①因果类题目。后面说给出一个明确的结...

9. Despite its best efforts to stimulate sales, the bookselling business remains far from ______, for it has high fixed costs in wages and rent, and falling prices make these ever harder to spur. A. effective B. healthy C. innovative D. rob...

8. She expected her book to be ______, but in fact few of her readers disagreed with its premise that street art, long considered a mere sideshow entertainment, deserved to be regarded as high art. A. controversial B. dramatic C. impressive...

7. Although most scientists hold that quantum theory and the theory of general relativity ought to be intimately connected, the theories have remained stubbornly ______. A. consistent B. unlinked C. self-contradictory D. estranged E. arbitr...

6. Leo Tolstoy wrote many works of nonfiction and professed (i)______ these explorations of ethics and religion compared with his novels and short stories. The fiction writer in him, however, was hard to (ii)______. Handi Murdd is a short n...

5. Women in the mining towns of the American West were strictly stereotyped into neat categories of public and private, good and bad, but the 100 intrepid female prospectors in Zanjani’s book managed to (i)______ those categories. In addi...

4. A bird’s feathers would seem to be a (i)______ design for protecting a bird from attack by microscopic organisms. They create a warm, moist space next to the skin that could be an ideal incubator for spores. Wild birds rarely (ii)_____...

3. The introductions to each section, written by the editors of the anthology, provide useful background material, but they do not provide critical analysis of the articles. Because the articles are in many senses the editors’ personal fa...