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2007/6?G填空 Section 1 填空 The Broadway musical business is apparently ---- innovation and experimentation: it ---- characters and story lines that have dominated the musical stage for years. oblivious … avoids eager for … seeks skilled in… employs famous for … generates averse to … recycles 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. selfishness … assuming unpredictability … ignoring ratiocination … analyzing impulsivity … thwarting irrationality … calculating The book’s account of the governors’ term in office is too uniformly____ to be persuasive: it overlooks her many accomplishments and ---- her failures. encomiastic …analyzes caustic … downplays harsh … exaggerates na?ve … exposes rosy … enumerates What the two sociologists have in common is a claim that their respective predictions describe____ outcomes: each scholar believes the developments he anticipates are ----. dire … preventable global … negligible predetermined …inevitable possible … ineluctable momentous … foreseeable 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. injudicious iniquitous unrealistic insensate 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) unm