1. It is truly paradoxical that the Amazon, the lushest of all rainforests, is rooted in the
most of all soils.
A. acidic
B. coarse
C. stark
D. impoverished
E. infertile
F. austere
2. Cynics believe that people who compliments do so in order to be
praised twice.
A. conjure up
B. covet
C. deflect
D. grasp
E. shrug off
F. understand
3. A restaurant’s menu is generally reflected in its décor; however despite this
restaurant’s appearance it is pedestrian in the menu it offers.
A. elegant
B. tawdry
C. modern
D. traditional
E. conventional
F. chic
4. International financial issues are typically by the United States media
because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to
people who lack a background in economics.
A. neglected
B. slighted
C. overrated
D. hidden
E. criticized
F. repudiated
5. While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different—she was
ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he
was —they were surprisingly well suited.
A. solicitous
B. munificent
C. irresolute
D. laconic
E. fastidious
F. taciturn
6. The nature of classical tragedy in Athens belies the modern image of
tragedy: in the modern view tragedy is austere and stripped down, its representations
of ideological and emotional conflicts so superbly compressed that there’s nothing
________ for time to erode.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
unadorned inalienable
harmonious exigent
multifaceted extraneous
7. Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has
been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with
_______, but the most of these paintings all doubts.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
partiality problematic exculpate
credulity successful assuage
ambivalence disparaged whet
答案： 1 impoverished infertile D E 2 deflect shrug off C E 3 elegant chic A F 4 neglected slighted A B 5 laconic taciturn D F 6 multifaceted extraneous C F 7 ambivalence successful assuage C E H