92-02

92 年2 月SECTION 3
1.By idiosyncratically refusing to dismiss an insubordinate member of his staff, the manager not
only ------- established policy, but he also ------- his heretofore good chances for promotion.
(A) instituted.. bettered
(B) recognized.. protected
(C) contravened.. jeopardized
(D) reiterated.. computed
(E) delimited.. restricted
2.Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such -------assumptions.
(A) commonplace
(B) trivial
(C) explicit
(D) divergent
(E) fundamental
3.The widespread public shock at the news of the guilty verdict was caused partly by ------- news stories that had------- acquittal.
(A) sensational. .condemned
(B) buried.. urged
(C) impartial.. mentioned
(D) biased.. predicted
(E) local.. denounced
4.The idealized paintings of nature produced in the
eighteenth century are evidence that the medieval
-------natural settings had been ----- and that the
outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.
(A) fear of.. exorcised
(B) concerns about.. regained
(C) affection for.. surmounted
(D) disinterest in.. alleviated
(E) enthusiasm for.. confronted
5.Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ------- since the Cambrian period, or
whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality
there has been either-------- or decreased diversity.
(A) changed.. escalation
(B) increased. stasis
(C) expanded.. discontinuity
(D) declined.. reduction
(E) improved.. deviation
6.Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones that ----- in the laboratory can affect ------- organisms, and in predictable ways.
(A) develop.. similar
(B) succeed.. simple
(C) fail.. cellular
(D) work.. whole
(E) reproduce.. unknown
7.The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell's own
prodigious activity and the vigor of the Association
for the Advancement of Women during the 1870's
------ any assertion that feminism was ------ in that
period.
(A) exclude.. thriving
(B) contradict.. prospering
(C) pervade.. remote
(D) buttress.. dormant
(E) belie.. quiescent

92 年2 月SECTION 6
1.Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and
inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh
infusion of cash would provide anything more than
a ------- solution to the company's financial woes.
(A) fair
(B) temporary
(C) genuine
(D) realistic
(E) complete
2.Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great
advances in clinical practice, it did not represent
a ----- bacterial illness, for there are some bacteria
that cannot be ------- treated with antibiotics.
(A) breakthrough in.. consistently
(B) panacea for.. effectively
(C) neglect of.. efficiently
(D) reexamination of.. conventionally
(E) resurgence of.. entirely
3.A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more
convoluted the structure, the more ------- the ideas.
(A) complicated
(B) inconsequential
(C) elementary
(D) fanciful
(E) blatant
4.Jones was unable to recognize, the contradictions
in his attitudes that were obvious to everyone else;
even the hint of an untruth was ------- to him, but
he ------ serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.
(A) acceptable. risked
(B) exciting.. averted
(C) repugnant. courted
(D) anathema.. evaded
(E) tempting.. hazarded
5.Even though the general's carefully qualified public
statement could hardly be -------, some people took
-------- it.
(A) respected.. liberties with
(B) inoffensive.. umbrage at
(C) faulted.. exception to
(D) credited.. potshots at
(E) dismissed.. interest in
6.Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne
Rainer's 1974 film ------- the filmmaker's active
involvement in feminist politics.
(A) preserved
(B) portrayed
(C) encouraged
(D) renewed
(E) antedated
7.The chances that a species will ------- are reduced if
any vital function is restricted to a single kind of
organ; ------ by itself possesses an enormous survival advantage.
(A) degenerate.. complexity
(B) expire. size
(C) disappear.. variety
(D) flourish.. symmetry
(E) persist.. redundancy