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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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 A. tainted B. hindered C. superseded D. inhibited E. proscribed F. forbidden 【分析】 ① 两句话的逻辑连接部分为... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情
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... >>查看详情