GRE02-08填空真题与参考答案

02-08年的填空真题及答案

02-08填空真题与参考答案

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02-08年的填空真题及答案

02 11G

1. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.

A. exotic… belie

B. eccentric…deploy

C. traditional…exclude

D. imaginative…disguise

E. conventional… incorporate

2. Even though the folktales Partout collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of then were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizes of French folktales have never ____ them.

A. excluded B. admired C. collected D. promoted E. comprehended

3. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.

A. exaggerated B. ignored C. scrutinized D. derided E. increased

4. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of aspiration of popular television documentaries.

A. quenching… moderated B. whetting… mushroomed C. curtailing… waned

D. ignoring… transformed E. slaking… increased

5. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.

A. diverting B. emotional C. didactic D. romantic E. whimsical

6. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insects that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.

A. reformers B. discoveries C. casualties D. critics E. beneficiaries

7. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great since her initial report has been based only on ____.

A. disseminate… supposition

B. withdraw… evidence

C. undercut… caprice

D. document… conjecture

E. downplay… facts

SECTION 3

1. The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered ______ despite widespread agreement that it was _______

A. respect … crucial B. dismissal…simplistic C. skepticism…unfathomable

D. opposition…indisputable E. acceptance…comprehensive

2. The rate at which soil can absorb water ______ with continuous wetting, so the longer a ______ lasts, or the greater the rate of precipitation, the higher the percentage of water that will flow across the ground as runoff and enter stream channels.

A. rises… deluge B. diminishes… drought C. increases… shower

D. decreases… rainstorm E. stabilizes…thaw

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3. The ideas expressed in the art historian’s book are more_____ than one would expect on the basis of her rather _____ treatment of her subject in the opening pages.

A. compelling… intriguing B. accessible… recondite C. hidebound… reactionary

D. insightful… innovative E. dispassionate… evenhanded

4. The meeting on environmental issues produced ____ discussion but no commitment on a plan of action: the many uncertainties surrounding global climatic change and the huge cost of efforts to limit it made the

policymakers ____.

A. little… voluble B. heated… contentious C. cordial… quarrelsome

D. frustrating… affable E. interminable… businesslike

5.Art that endures often makes an initially disturbing impact: the profound experience that such art seeks to provoke necessarily engenders a certain____.

A. familiarity B. ennui C. upheaval D. intimacy E. tranquility

6. The history of film reflects the ____ inherent in the medium itself: film combines still photographs to represent continuous motion and, while seeming to present life itself, can also offer impossible and dreamlike unrealities.

A. trivialities B. biases C. constraints D. paradoxes E. liabilities

7. The ____ with which the politician peppers her s peeches are so memorable that many people think of her as being far more ____ than she in fact is.

A. superlatives… egalitarian B. pejoratives…optimistic C. examples… soporific

D. diatribes… censorious E. malapropisms… straightforward

EAAC CED

DDBB CDD

7. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great since her initial report has been based only on ____.

A. disseminate… supposition

B. withdraw… evidence

C. undercut… caprice

D. document… conjecture

E. downplay… facts

Document: to provide with factual or substantial support for statements made or a hypothesis proposed especially : to equip with exact references to authoritative supporting information

02-08年的填空真题及答案

06 6G

SECTION 1

1．Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to______: the gags are fewer and subtler.

(A)understatement (B) preciosity (C)symbolism (D)buffoonery (E)melodrama

2．Bebop’s legacy is_____one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it______jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.

(A)a mixed……..alienated

(B)a troubled……..seduced

(C)an ambiguous……….aggrandized

(D)a valuable…….refined

(E)a noble………pleased

3．The exhibition’s importance lies in its______: curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.

(A) homogeneity (B)sophistry (C)scope (D)farsightedness (E)insularity

4．Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be______read because its prose is so______that understanding it require an enormous effort.

(A) seldom…….transparent

(B) carefully……..pellucid

(C) little……….turgid

(D) eagerly……..digressive

(E) widely…….prolix

5．Carleton would still rank among the great______of nineteenth-century American art event if the circumstance of her life and career were less______than they are.

(A) celebrities……….obscure

(B) failures……..illustrious

(C) charlatans……impeccable

(D) enigmas……mysterious

(E) success……….ignominious

6．Although based on an actual event, the film lacks______: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and ______documentary truth for dramatic power.

(A) conviction……..embraces

(B) expressiveness…..exaggerates

(C) verisimilitude …….sacrifices

(D) realism……….substitutes

(E) coherence……..utilizes

7．When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely______-tone, avoiding the ______editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.

(A) abstruse….scholarly

(B) dispassionate……..shrill

(C) argumentative…….tendentious

(D) whimsical…..capricious

(E) cosmopolitan…….timely

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SECTION 2

1.Despite the fact that the amateur runner trained rigorously for six months before the race, he failed to______it: the course was so______that even professional runners struggled to finish.

(A) complete……..demanding

(B) win………manageable

(C) master…….short

(D) concede…….formidable

(E) underestimate…..unusual

2.In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of______

(A) compatibility

(B) affluence

(C) reciprocity

(D) contemporaneousness

(E) proximity

3.It is as if Woodward could not bear to leave anything out; if he had______some of his material, the resulting increase in focus would have more than______any loss in comprehensiveness.

(A) elaborated…….justified

(B) condensed………exaggerated

(C) expanded………offset

(D) edited……..pointed up

(E) pruned……pensated for

4.The hesitancy of many countries to embrace market reform is unfortunate, because many national success stories suggest that far from______such reform, countries should be eager to ______its benefits.

(A) implementing…….document

(B) pursuing…………seek

(C) eschewing……..reap

(D) needing……..realize

(E) understanding…….question

5.Contemporary lawmakers’ preoccupation with regulating the Internet is ______ the way lawmakers treated many young industries in the past; United States railroads, for instance, were in business for 60 years before the federal government______regulations.

(A) antithetical to……….eased

(B) faithful to……..levied

(C) reminiscent of……..enforced

(D) in conflict with ….lifted

(E) at odds with…….introduced

6.Despite the fact that the book’s title suggests______, the author is not a charlatan claiming to offer a______ ; rather, her book assessed all possible treatments of certain diseases without identifying any cures.

(A) fraud……critique

(B) sincerity…….nostrum

(C) hyperbole…..warning

(D) expertise…….prescription

(E) quackery……panacea

02-08年的填空真题及答案

7.The profits that the corporation earns from the exclusive-supplier agreements with the universities are______, because the terms of agreements that they are inclined to protect the universities’ interests are generally______.

(A) inexplicable……..flouted

(B) unclear……….publicized

(C) predictable……….scrutinized

(D) declining…….ignored

(E) surprising…..enforced

DACC DCB

AEEC EE?

1．Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to______: the gags are fewer and subtler.

(A)understatement (B) preciosity (C)symbolism (D)buffoonery (E)melodrama

Buffoonery: foolish or playful behavior or practice

Melodrama: a work (as a movie or play) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and physical action over characterization. NOT necessarily includes gags

2.In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of______

(A) compatibility

(B) affluence

(C) reciprocity

(D) contemporaneousness

(E) proximity

geographically disparate<> proximity

02-08年的填空真题及答案

06 10G

SECTION 2

1.Even by the company’s own standards of ____，Its early years were extremely _____: it manufactured as many as three million appliances a month during that three-year period.

A. success.. disappointing

B. profitability.. characteristic

C. efficiency.. productive

D. perfection.. inauspicious

E. ethics.. conscientious

2. In the nineteenth century, composers exhibiting ____ skill found themselves ____ as writers by periodicals that afforded them an opportunity to earn money and to make their views about music known.

A. artistic.. censured

B. limited.. lionized

C. remarkable…unknown

D. literary.. in demand

E. financial.. out of favor

3.Writers typically do not ____ the great visual artists of their own generation: for Courbet, considered by many to be the greatest painter of Baudelaire’s time, the poet offered ___ praise.

A. slight.. meager

B. admire.. unstinting

C. evaluate.. extravagant

D. deprecate.. insincere

E. recognize.. scant

4. A common misconception is that linguists are concerned only with the origin and development of languages, but these topics, though they constitute an important part of linguistics, do not ___ the subject.

A. frame

B. transcend

C. convey

D. exhaust

E. illuminate

5. Far from being a ___ portrait of the writer, the biographer’s life of Christina Stead is ___ many undigested and discursive excerpts from Stead’s fiction and private papers.

A. multifaceted .. enriched by

B. valuable .. enhanced by

C. succinct.. .padded with

D. disputatious.. discredited by

E. compendious .. studded with

6. Traditional Navajo concepts of government are ___; decisions are arrived at through consensus rather than ___ by a single authority.

A. aristocratic.. prescribed

B. egalitarian.. dictated

C. democratic.. censured

D. patriarchal.. legislated

E. hierarchical.. enacted

7. The architecture critic perceived as ironic the fact that one of the first buildings to deviate from the Modernist architecture on the campus was designed by an architectural firm renowned for its ___ of that aesthetic.

A. scorn

02-08年的填空真题及答案

B. anticipation

C. mastery

D. avoidance

E. renunciation

Section 4

1. Of all the professor’s various mentors, Carabelli was clearly the most ___, since it was he who fundamentally

shaped the professor’s now highly regarded research approach.

A. circumspect

B. influential

C. exacting

D. idealistic

E. unethical

2. Some believe that the tradition of holding elections on Tuesday was established to restrict voting to truly serious

voters, but in fact ___ was the original idea behind Tuesday voting, since Tuesday in rural communities was when people were most likely to be in town.

A. elitism

B. convenience

C. apathy

D. favoritism

E. partisanship

3. Although the metropolitan area boasts more small businesses than any other region in the state, it ranks very low on the scale of pro-business attitudes: local entrepreneurs have a remarkable ability to ___ an ___ atmosphere here.

A. confront… energetic

B. excuse… invigorating

C. create… enervating

D. overlook… enthusiastic

E. tolerate… inhospitable

4. Although the politician was basically conservative in her views, she was not ___: her positions on certain issues could even be called ___.

A. radical… extremist

B. dogmatic… hidebound

C. reactionary… progressive

D. moderate… cautious

E. overzealous… inflexible

5. Cultural change is seldom truly ___: successive periods overlap, progress is ___, and within a prevailing climate of opinion there can be innumerable variations

A. straight forward… ragged

B. benign… uneven

C. complex… volatile

D. visible… manifest

E. significant… dramatic

6. The science of astronomy was begun by amateurs and today remains dependent on their contributions, which are incisive by virtue of being ___ by the a prior assumption that often vitiate the work of professional research scientists

A. characterized B. unencumbered

C. supported D. contradicted

E. inspired

02-08年的填空真题及答案

7. In many cities mass-transit delays occur so frequently that patrons have finally become ___them and have simply adjusted their schedules accordingly.

A. committed to

B. cognizant of

C. enraged by

D. desirous of

E. inured to

CDED CBC

BBEC A?E

2. In the nineteenth century, composers exhibiting ____ skill found themselves ____ as writers by periodicals that afforded them an opportunity to earn money and to make their views about music known.

A. artistic.. censured

B. limited.. lionized

C. remarkable…unknown

D. literary.. in demand

E. financial.. out of favor

writers CORRESPONDS TO literary

4. A common misconception is that linguists are concerned only with the origin and development of languages, but these topics, though they constitute an important part of linguistics, do not ___ the subject.

A. frame

B. transcend

C. convey

D. exhaust

E. illuminate

exhaust: a : to consider or discuss (a subject) thoroughly or completely b : to try out the whole number of <exhausted all the possibilities> 穷尽

3. Although the metropolitan area boasts more small businesses than any other region in the state, it ranks very low on the scale of pro-business attitudes: local entrepreneurs have a remarkable ability to ___ an ___ atmosphere here.

A. confront… energetic

B. excuse… invigorating

C. create… enervating

D. overlook… enthusiastic

E. tolerate… inhospitable

low pro-business attitudes CORRESPONDS TO inhospitable atmosphere

02-08年的填空真题及答案

07 10G

Section 1

1.The Broadway musical business is apparently ---- innovation and experimentation: it ---- characters and story lines that have dominated the musical stage for years.

A. oblivious … avoidsB. eager for … seeks C. skilled in… employs

D.famous for … generates E.averse to … recycles

2.Some theories of why election results in democracies sometimes seem perverse rest on the idea that there is an intrinsic ---- in human behavior; in contrast, other explanations posits that people act logically, ---- their interests and behaving accordingly.

A. selfishness … assuming B. unpredictability … ignoring C. ratiocination … analyzing

D.impulsivity … thwarting E.irrationality … calculating

3.The book’s account of the governors’ term in office is too uniformly____ to be persuasive: it overlooks her many accomplishments and ---- her failures.

A. encomiastic …analyzes B. caustic … downplays C. harsh … exaggerates

D. naive … exposes E.rosy … enumerates

4.What the two sociologists have in common is a claim that their respective predictions describe____ outcomes: each scholar believes the developments he anticipates are ----.

A. dire … preventable B. global … negligible C. predetermined …inevitable

D. possible … ineluctable E.momentous … foreseeable

5.An epistolary novel, composed of fictitious correspondence between its characters, may seem ---- to the

contemporary reader who writes few letters and who may doubt that anyone could have such incessant recourse to the pen.

A. injudicious B. iniquitous C. unrealistic D. insensate E.superfluous

6. Researchers say that methanol can boost the growth of plants by___ a natural process known as photorespiration, during which a plant can____ much of the energy it needs to grow.

A. promoting….waste B. modifying… alter C. blocking… store

D. inhibiting…. lose E.accelerating…. over utilize

7. Although many genuine friendships are entered into only out of pure goodwill ______ with selfish considerations, many real______ accrue to those who enter into such relations.

A. fraught……benefits B. unmixed……advantages C. disguised……deficits

D. confused……consequences E.unalloyed……attractions

1.During the speeches preliminary to the ship’s launching, its designer’s expression was pensive and his stare distant; doubtless, he was ______ the ceremony and was anxious to get on with the launch.

A. rearranging B. inspecting C. unsure of D. preoccupied with E.impatient with

2.Although not all the women in the group identified themselves as feminists, their lives______ their shared belief that men and women were equal and that the accomplishments, not the gender, of an individual mattered.

A. challenged B. demonstrated C. conflated D. undermined E.contradicted

3.The research committee urged the professor to ______ his claim that he was on the verge of an important discovery, since he had made several ______ assertions in the past.

A. modify … irreproachable B. substantiate … implausible C. promote … ambitious

D. disseminate … capricious E. verify … valid

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4.Traditional Chinese culture opposed music performed solely for entertainment; accordingly, China’s musical entertainers were, in the past, ______ a low social status.

A. exempt from B. relegated to C. privy to D. honored with E.scornful of

5.Although the diverse local idioms of English in England are not as strong as they once were, their ______ has been ______: television and radio are not the homogenizing forces that they were once thought to be.

A. variety … diminished B. importance … exaggerated C. colorfulness … muted

D. meaning … misconstrued E.resilience … underrated

6.Some suggest that students who are granted privileges receive them because their teachers wish to make the

students______; more probably, causality flows in the opposite direction, in that teachers are likely to grant privileges to diligent students.

A. excitable B. independent C. malleable D. grateful E.conscientious

7.This writer of fiction believed that the novelist should not ______ the narrative, and that such inconspicuousness on the part of the author would preserve the illusion of reality.

A. preconceive B. minimize C. hasten D. agonize over E. obtrude into

EECC CDB

EBBB EEE

7. Although many genuine friendships are entered into only out of pure goodwill ______ with selfish considerations, many real______ accrue to those who enter into such relations.

A. fraught……benefits B. unmixed……advantages C. disguised……deficits

D. confused……consequences E.unalloyed……attractions

selfish considerations CORRESPONDS TO advantages

1.During the speeches preliminary to the ship’s launching, its designer’s expression was pensive and his stare distant; doubtless, he was ______ the ceremony and was anxious to get on with the launch.

A. rearranging B. inspecting C. unsure of D. preoccupied with E.impatient with

anxious CORRESPONDS TO impatient

02-08年的填空真题及答案

08 6G

Section1

1. Since one of Professor Roche's oft-repeated adages was that familiarity leads to ___, his students were quite surprised to find him so ___Return of the Native, a novel he had taught for over 30 years.

A love...enthusiastic over B contempt...disdainful of C knowledge...conversant with

D boredom...excited by E admiration...confused by

2. Reason was once believed to be ___ human, but lately this assumption of intellectual superiority has come under increasingly skeptical scrutiny: most researchers now at least ___ the notion that some animals can think.

A logically…ridicule B unique…entertain C scarcely…embrace

D quintessentially…balk at E peculiarly…scoff at

3. Powerful as they are, the ___ songs the artist is best known for might sting more and have even greater emotional complexity if one felt that his criticisms were aimed at himself as well as at his unnamed foes.

A accusatory B altruistic C mournful D simplistic E humble

4. In her love the sea is ___ symbol: to the narrator it clearly represents everything that is destructive in nature, but at other times it seems to stand for everything in nature that is serenely beautiful.

A an enduring B an ambiguous C a coherent D an obtrusive E a discrete

5. Despite their extensive efforts to determine the mode of oil ___, scientists still have not ___ the process by which oil is produced.

A dispersion…excluded B synthesis…rejected C creation…investigated

D recovery…condoned E genesis…established

6. Compared with their parties, politicians are ___:they are considerably less enduring than the organizations in which they function.

A ubiquitous B autonomous C fickle D immutable E transitory

7. Chavez’ account of her supervisors’ ___ decision making belies the agency’s image as little more than ___ bureaucracy.

A cautious…a staid B ill-informed…a disorganized C reckless…an incompetent

Section2

1. The cause of the disease is fairly simple and has been understood for over a century; by contrast, its symptoms and effects are ___.

A straightforward B illuminating C severe D well researched E perplexing

2. Throughout the artist’s work there runs a thread of psychic darkness strong enough to unnerve the most jaded sensibility: even her drawings from the comparatively ___ months of her visit to Rome ___ violence secrecy, and despair.

A tranquil…emanate B morbid…convey C languid…eschew

D disturbed…express E felicitous…shun

3. Even among the staid, unemotional denominations of the 1830s and 1840s, the renewal of religious fervor and the necessity of competing with more ___ clerics inevitably led to a greater ___ ministerial showmanship.

A charismatic…cultivation of B reserved…attraction to C well-known…disdain for

D conservative…appeal for E empathetic…distrust of

4. Tuberculosis has long been ___ and ____ disease: for thousands of years, it has continued to afflict humankind without regard for sex, class, occupation, or race.

A an unremitting…selective B an unpredictable…limitable C a sporadic…capricious

D a relentless…egalitarian E a virulent…preventable

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5. He found his new acquaintance to be ___ :trying to understand her personality was like peering into an unknown dimension.

A puerile B imperturbable C cosmopolitan D inscrutable E obdurate

6. The writer has gained such popularity with his readers that even his inanities are now considered ___.

A vacuous B tedious C speculative D allusive E trenchant

7. The biographer’s intense emotional involvement with his subject did not ___ objectivity, since the passionate engagement fostered deep knowledge that was ultimately necessary for truly ___ judgment.

A preclude…disinterested B encourage…fair C impede…partisan

D advance…pragmatic E admit…reasonable

DBAB ECC

EAAD DEA

4. Tuberculosis has long been ___ and ____ disease: for thousands of years, it has continued to afflict humankind without regard for sex, class, occupation, or race.

A an unremitting…selective B an unpredictable…limitable C a sporadic…capricious

D a relentless…egalitarian E a virulent…preventable

without regard for … CORRESPONDS TO egalitarian

continued CORRESPONDS TO relentless

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08 10G

Section 1

1.Initially a defender of democratic rules , the resident ironically soon began to employ the very dictatorial power that he had once ___

A.supported B.condemned C.created D.advocated E.recognized

2. The artist was quite___: he not only painted portraits and illustrated books but also designed furniture and monuments.

A.unsophisticated B.conventional C.temperamental D.exacting E.versatile

3. Because of the likelihood that her new colleague would not approve of her political opinions, the reporter briefly considered remaining quiet, then quickly resolved that she would not ____her personal views merely for the sake of ____

A.flout.....posterity B.suppress....concord C.recant .....debate D.misrepresent....conflict E.advertise.....affability

4. The feminist poet's extremely explicit and witty diatribes against social convention were so thoroughly___ other writers that her idiosyncratic brand of rebellion eventually became the convention of her time.

A.inimical to B.alien to C. emulated by D.resented by E.misunderstood by

5. Although sermons retained their___ in religious life during most of the twentieth century, they are gradually ___that central places as churches devote more energy to social activities.

A.stature....occupying B.role....preemptingC.preeminence ....losing D.superiority ....attaining E.marginality....ceding

6. The same environmental process that long ago caused the original degradation of forest ecosystem are acting

as___its rehabilitation; scientists therefore intend to try to ____these processes in order to prevent future damage to the ecosystem

A. signals of ....eliminate B. irritants to....exacerbate C. precursors to ....slow

D.barriers to ...counter E. obstacles to....facilitate

7. The studies executive lamented the fact that experts who had tried to_____the reasons why movies succeed or fail commercially had encountered great difficulty in producing mathematical models that could accurately predict the future of unreleased movies.

A.downplay B.falsify C.delineate D.circumvent E.promote

Section 3

1.The noisy begging of a brood of baby birds is a __ to biologist : why would any helpless, immature organism do something that seems so likely to endanger it by __ predators?

A.Conundrum ; attracting B. Paradox ; outwiting C. Given ; drawing

D. Signal ; startling E. Puzzle ; repelling

2. While still__, Juvenal's satires __ a change of tone and some touches of human hardness, as though he had found some consolation at last.

A.Pessimistic; avoid B.Embittered; show C.Hopeful; display

D.Sardonic; escape passionate; embrace

3. Upon reality that the indicators of a stressful situation can be extremely__, the psychologist reconsidered his claim that a reliable way to reduce stress is to recognize stressful situations and then avoid them.

A. Acute B. Subtle C.Well-documented D.Exaggerated E.Persistent

4. The chief flaw of the work is that it dwell too long to matters that are__ to its main subject, leaving__ space for treatment of heat of the topic.

A.Germane; disproportinate B.Tantamount; equivalent C.Ancillary; scant

plement;compensatory E.Integral; inade

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5. For all the scathing precision within the lines of social aspirants and moneyed folk, the writer appears to__ being part of the world she makes seem so__

A.Abhor; shallow B.Disdain; glamorous C.Romantic;mysterious

D.Savor; intoxicating E.Relish;instafferate

6.The__ activity that usually accompanies annual conventions of professional scholars is in ill keeping with the__ and order befitting earnest intellectual endeavor

A.erudite;laxity B.Frivolous;gravity C.Frenetic; levity D.Doleful;dilettantism

E.Cerebral; sobriety

7.Contrary to the manager's draconian reputation, most of the work rules and procedures she implemented were relatively__

A.Innocuous B.Punctilious C.Onerous D.Transparent E.Uncomplicated

BEBC CDC

ABBC ABA

2. While still__, Juvenal's satires __ a change of tone and some touches of human hardness, as though he had found some consolation at last.

A.Pessimistic; avoid B.Embittered; show C.Hopeful; display

D.Sardonic; escape passionate; embrace

Embittered: Made bitter, or more bitter. (Chiefly fig.; cf. senses of the vb.) 1849 Mill Ess. (1859) II. 364 The embittered denunciations against the circulars and proclamations. [Oxford English Dictionary]

embittered :Bitingly hostile [Roget's II: The New Thesaurus]

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