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Section 5
1. Janet's ------ was evident to everyone in the room because she glanced around at them ------.
A. guilt .. confidently
B. anxiety .. calmly
C. conviction .. uneasily
D. hopefulness .. gloomily
E. suspicion .. distrustfully
解析：
两空都是在修饰Janet的行为特征，中间由because连接因果关系，所以两空同义，选E选项suspicion“怀疑”distrustfully“不信任地”。
词汇扩充：
怀疑的，不轻信的：skeptical, suspicious, incredulous
2. Early twentieth-century writers Ernst Hemingway and Edna St. Vincent Millay owed much of their public visibility to self-promotion: both were adept at ------ their own literary works.
A. marketing
B. modernizing
C. duplicating
D. finalizing
E. editing
解析：
空格对应冒号前的self-promotion“自我推销”，所以选择A选项marketing“营销”。
3. Chemistry professor Mande Holford learned about the National Science Foundation fellowship program in ------ way: she happened across an advertisement for it in a magazine she read during jury duty.
A. an orthodox
B. an anachronistic
C. a fortuitous
D. a dilatory
E. a nefarious
解析：
空格对应冒号后的描述，通过happen“碰巧发生”可以判断空格填C选项fortuitous“偶然的，意外的”。
词汇扩充：
偶然的，意外的：accidental, unintentional, haphazard, incidental, serendipity (n.)
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4. Many today would consider Phillis Wheatley to have been remarkably ------ : by age 12 she was studying Latin, and soon after, she was translating Ovid into English.
A. taciturn
B. rambunctious
C. garrulous
D. precocious
E. winsome
解析：
空格对应冒号后的描述---12岁学拉丁语并翻译Ovid， 所以选D选项precocious“早熟的”。注意，premature经常被误认为是“早熟的”意思，而实际上表示“不成熟的，草率的”。
5. The philosopher claimed that we humans are essentially ------, given to dissembling in order to further our interests.
A. altruistic
B. redoubtable
C. pugnacious
D. duplicitous
E. complacent
解析：
空格对应逗号后所说的为了扩大自己的利益去dissembling“掩饰，掩盖”，所以选D选项duplicitous“欺骗性的，两面三刀的”。
词汇扩充：
欺骗性的：deceptive, fraudulent, mendacious
Section 8
1. Because of its beautiful photographs and clear text, the new book on Pueblo cliff villages will be ------ not only for specialists but for ------ readers as well.
A. accessible .. general
B. uninteresting .. scholarly
C. confusing .. critical
D. unmarketable .. casual
E. available .. trained
解析：
Because在开头表示两句间的因果关系，从逗号前的beautiful和clear可以看出第一空应该填入正向的评价，所以在accessible“易理解的”和available“可用的”中选择;由于not only for A but for B的结构中，A与B为反义关系，所以第二空为specialists“专家”的反义词，因此选择A选项的general“普通的，大众的”。
2. Unlike most business historians, Smith is neither a defender nor an opponent of the companies she writes about; such objectivity is exceedingly ------ in this highly ------ field.
A. rare .. combative
B. common .. divisive
C. predictable .. complacent
D. surprising .. cooperative
E. typical .. cordial
解析：
通过Unlike most business historians(不像大多数企业史学家)可判断出第一空只能在rare“罕见的”和surprising“令人惊讶的”中选择;第二空描述的是这个领域的大环境特征，所以填objectivity“客观中立”的反义词，因此选择A选项的combative“好争斗的”。
词汇扩充：
好争斗的，好战的：bellicose, belligerent, contentious, militant, pugnacious
3. A trial transcript is a ------ record of courtroom testimony, useful whenever a witness's exact words must be repeated.
A. verbatim
B. subjective
C. spurious
D. marginal
E. vigorous
解析：
空格对应逗号后的信息---需要逐字逐句地重复证词时能用的着，相当于做了逐字书面备份，选择A选项verbatim: in the exact words(逐字的)。
4. The many factors affecting a species' abundance seldom act in ------; on the contrary, interactions between factors are commonplace.
A. haste
B. principle
C. place
D. isolation
E. miniature
解析：
通过on the contrary可以判断空格与分号后的interactions“相互作用”取反，所以选D选项isolation“孤立”。
5. Her prose is ------ in all ways but one: it is often given to a ------ of descriptive detail that threatens to overwhelm every cogent observation.
A. minimalist .. paucity
B. immutable .. fulsomeness
C. irksome .. felicity
D. tenacious .. vacillation
E. exemplary .. superfluity
解析：
此题突破口在第二空，通过threatens“威胁到”可以看出第二空是会造成负向影响的词语，此时只能排除felicity“幸福，快乐”，再通过overwhelm“压倒，压制”可以判断第二空只能在fulsomeness“过度，过量”和superfluity“过量，多余”中选择。这时候可以看出冒号后的信息---大量的细节描写破坏了有说服力的观察结果---是负向评价;第一空是对prose“措辞风格”的描述，考虑到in all ways but one“各方面都很……除了一件事”这种欲抑先扬的表述，使第一空与冒号后信息取反，因此为正向评价，选E选项的exemplary“模范的”。全句大意是：她的写作风格在各方面都是模范除了一点 ，那就是她那大量的细节描写掩盖了真正有说服力的东西。
6. Derek's ------ nature worried his friends, who thought such fearlessness would one day lead him into danger.
A. callous
B. intrepid
C. circumspect
D. disingenuous
E. mercurial
解析：
空格对应逗号后的fearlessness“无所畏惧”，因此选B选项intrepid“无畏的”
词汇扩充：
勇敢的，无畏的：undaunted, dauntless, courageous, gallant, valiant
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