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（试卷5） I. Vocabulary (30%) Section 1: From the list of words at the top, select the correct word or phrase for each blank space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%). blew in infested negation written off stowed smoldered inimical skimmed mellow gear enlist wring flesh and blood blind and deaf catalytic agent The hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and __________ it 40 feet through the air. The French doors in an upstairs room _________. I tore off a piece of bread and he _______ it gratefully in some secret place under his rags. The Jews are working in dark fly-_________ booths that look like caves. The reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to ________ a little food out of an eroded soil. There is a limit to what _______________can bear. They let the color the house _______ into its present shocking depravity. The war acted as a ______________ in this breaking down of the Victorian social structure. The country was ______________ to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar. Fads, I admit, are the very ___________ of reason. The innumerable artists could never be ______________ as sterile. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still _________. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high _______. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly ________ to man, had made the country look so ugly.. Our young men began to _________ under foreign flags. Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrase in each sentence (15%) fell apart distress huddled transported adjusted almost scolded industrious bright set down swelling rich dwelling places rotting talking about . The group heard gunlike reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated. The dog cowered with eyes closed. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adult