陈圣元句子填空section4370(90年94年).doc

SECTION 43 1. Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the of the blizzard of 1888. (A) inevitability (B) ferocity (C) importance (D) probability (E) mildness 2. As the first streamlined car, the Airflow represented a in automotive development, and although its sales were , it had an immense influence on automobile design. (A)milestone.. disappointing (B)breakthrough.. significant (C)regression.. unimportant (D)misjudgment.. calculable (E)revolution.. tolerable 3. While nurturing parents can compensate for adversity, cold or inconsistent parents may it. (A)exacerbate (B) neutralize (C) eradicate (D) ameliorate (E) relieve 4. The architects of New Yorks early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the citys social strivings by a history the city did not truly . (A)revealing.. deserve (B)displaying.. desire (C)evoking.. possess (D)preserving.. experience (E)flouting.. believe 5. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one among millions; yet each out-come can be interpreted. (A)coincidence.. randomly (B)relationship.. predictably (C)fact.. readily (D)happening.. uniquely (E)possibility.. rationally 6. Although some of her fellow scientists the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found innovative, unanimous praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and . (A)ignored.. untrustworthy (B)complimented.. foreseeable (C)welcomed.. mundane (D)decried.. unexceptionable (E)attacked.. inconclusive 7. Early critics of Emily Dickinsons poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such . (A) astonishment (B) vexation (C) allusion (D) innocence (E) cunning 1. This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype. (A) cooper