50. For many women with early-stage breast cancer, treatment may become less _____, researchers say. (A) litigious (B) boisterous (C) arduous (D) rapacious
Fluency and accuracy are complementary principles underlying communicative techniques. Accuracy is more important than fluency in order to keep learners meaningfully engaged in language use.
Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the _____ of her feelings.
(A) indolence (B) effervescence (C) benevolence (D) ambivalence
The public is not antagonistic towards the mentally handicapped or especially
afraid of them; the emotional responses are generally to feel sorry for them and
uncomfortable in their presence.
(A) hostile (B) amicable (C) dubious (D) atrocious
An English teacher could best promote the development of students’ listening skills by _______.
(A) pausing occasionally to ask students to repeat what was just said
(B) asking students to take notes
(C) integrating specific listening activities as a routine element in the daily schedule
(D) frequently using wh- questions to make students think and respond
53. These technology circuits are bringing your brain to _______ levels of potential. You have a heightened ability to react quickly to visual stimuli and to shift
through large amounts of information rapidly to decide what’s important and what isn’t.
(A) effeminate (B) haggard (C) extraordinary (D) inchoate
2. At the sight of the __________ rascal, the villagers fled in a fright, afraid to fall prey to his villainy.
(A) banal (B) heinous (C) austere (D) offhand
7. Though Mary and Allen tried hard to keep their romance a secret, their love was almost _______ and obvious.
Everyone in the company had a suspicion that they were more than close friends from their intimate movements.
(A) palpable (B) paranoid (C) pastoral (D) paunchy
9. David Ragan has earned the first Sprint Cup victory of his career, ______ himself after
blowing his chance in the season-opening Daytona 500.
(A) exploring (B) inspecting (C) respecting (D) redeeming
14. David can ______ his degree in biotech if he doesn't succeed in his business career.
(A) face up to (B) fall back on (C) fall behind in (D) fall out with
Does reading great literature make you a better person? There's a theory, vaguely associated with evolutionary psychology,
maintaining that fiction builds empathy, and therefore morality, _____(31)_____ inviting us into the minds, hearts and experiences of
others. This is what one of the British children's book authors implied recently, when he claimed that "developing in young
children a love of poems and stories" might someday _____(32)___ the human-rights organization Amnesty International obsolete.
While many experts are all for _____(33)___ such tastes in children, they also don't think the love of stories has to be taught. Most
children are keenly interested in stories in all their forms. Yet there has always been a need for groups like Amnesty and it
seems probable there always will be, no matter how many stories we _____(34)___ our youth. Isn't it just as likely that many people
who are already empathetic and moral will be _____(35)___ to literature because they're curious about and interested in how others
think and feel? 【題組】
31. (A)for (B)by (C)beyond (D)next to
15. Persons with _____ may have difficulty remembering, recognizing, and/or reversing written letters, numbers, and words, might read backwards,
and have poor handwriting.
(A) dyslexia (B) insomnia (C) diabetes (D) diarrhea
19. She went to a high school where male and female students attended the same school facility. She went to a ______ school.
(A) private (B) public (C) boarding (D) coeducation
35. Mary and John are always fighting. Although they blame each other for starting the fights, actually _______________.
(A) it is a small world after all (B) it takes two to tango
(C) you can’t judge a book by its cover (D) your guess is as good as mine
Minimizing the show of emotion is the Japanese norm for feelings of distress __________ someone in authority, which explains why the students masked their upset with a poker face in the experiment. (A)with the help of (B)in the presence of (C)on top of (D)in place of
When the doctor decided to __________ his leg to prevent the spread of gangrene, he cried that he preferred death to incapacity.
(A) precipitate (B) mitigate (C) investigate (D) amputate
The pill may help ________ the pain caused by the wound but I suggest your seeing a doctor soon.
(A) delude (B) hypnotize (C) exempt (D) assuage (E) emulate