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　　1. In searching for norms in the sense of authoritative standards of what ought to be, rather than in the sense of what is average and thus can be considered normal, normative ethics aims to ______.

　　A. predict

　　B. mitigate

　　C. question

　　D. dictate

　　E. personalize

　　2. In his unexpurgated autobiography, Mark Twain commented freely on the flaws and foibles of his country, making some observations so ______ that his heirs and editors feared they would damage Twain’s reputation if not withheld.

　　A. buoyant

　　B. acerbic

　　C. premonitory

　　D. laudatory

　　E. temperate

　　3. That the artist chose to remain in his hometown does not mean that he remained (i)______; on the contrary, he (ii)______ the international artistic movements of his day.

　　Blank (i) Blank (ii)

　　A. provincial D. knew nothing about

　　B. capricious E. made light of

　　C. obstinate F. kept abreast of

　　4. An innovation of the eighteenth-century cookbook writer Mary Cole was that in her work she (i)______ the earlier books from which her recipes were drawn. Even in those numerous instances in which she had collated into a single version, which she could have called her own, the recipes of several earlier writers, she (ii)______ them.

　　Blank (i) Blank (ii)

　　A. preserved D. took pains to cite

　　B. enhanced E. sought to imitate

　　C. acknowledged F. could not surpass

　　5. As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling, what eventually became (i)______ was that the company had been concocting the “value” out of thin air, thanks not to the trading strategies it promoted as visionary but to financial (ii)______ that turned a once-solid entity into the most notorious (iii)______ in an era of corporate scandals.

　　Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)

　　A. vindicated D. redemption G. omission

　　B. unmistakable E. responsibilities H. boon

　　C. unverifiable F. games I. debacle

　　6. Kept (i)______ by cloying commercial radio and clueless record executives, the American popular music scene has frequently depended on cities at the edges of the cultural map to provide a much-needed shot of (ii)______. The momentary (iii)______ what the next big thing is seems to come out of nowhere—as if someone blows a whistle only those in the know can hear, and suddenly record executives and journalists are crawling all over what had previous been an obscure locale.

　　Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)

　　A. hidebound D. originality G. consensus about

　　B. liberated E. truth H. indifference to

　　C. obligated F. orthodoxy I. guarantee of

　　7. Family photos of the author suggest that she was ______ child: she seemed to wear a permanent frown.

　　A. a sullen

　　B. an amiable

　　C. a surly

　　D. a beautiful

　　E. a prudent

　　F. a stunning

　　8. Biologists agree that snakes descended from lizards, but exactly where this first happened has been a matter of debate since the 1800s, when two ______ theories emerged.

　　A. complex

　　B. competing

　　C. dubious

　　D. conclusive

　　E. contending

　　F. irrefutable

　　9. A particular bacterium that has never encountered a particular virus will usually succumb to it, a ______ that may, surprisingly, be beneficial to the colony in which the bacterium lives.

　　A. susceptibility

　　B. theory

　　C. characteristic

　　D. juxtaposition

　　E. collision

　　F. hypothesis

　　10. The remarkable thing about the mayoral race, in retrospect, is that so many people wanted the job of managing a municipality so obviously about to ______.

　　A. materialize

　　B. disintegrate

　　C. crumble

　　D. prosper

　　E. flourish

　　F. scuffle

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