PowerPrep II学生版本.docx

1. In the 1950s, the country’s inhabitants were ______: most of them knew very little about foreign countries.(A) partisan(B) erudite(C) insular(D) cosmopolitan(E) imperturbable2. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ______.(A) maturity(B) fiction(C) inventiveness(D) art(E) brilliance3. Given how (i) ______ the shortcomings of the standard economic model are in its portrayal of human behavior, the failure of many economists to respond to them is astonishing. They continue to fill the journals with yet more proofs of yet more (ii) ______ theorems. Others, by contrast, accept the criticisms as a challenge, seeking to expand the basic model to embrace a wider range of things people do.BLANK (i)BLANK (ii)(A) overlooked(D) comprehensive(B) occasional(E) improbable(C) patent(F) pervasive4. The (i) _____ nature of classical tragedy in Athens belies the modern image of tragedy: in the modern view tragedy is austere and stripped down, its representations of ideological and emotional conflicts so superbly compressed that there’s nothing (ii) ______ for time to erode.BLANK (i)BLANK (ii)(A) unadorned(D) inalienable(B) harmonious(E) exigent(C) multifaceted(F) extraneous5. Stories are a haunted genre; hardly (i) ______ kind of story, the ghost story is almost the paradigm of the form, and (ii) ______ was undoubtedly one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work.BLANK (i)BLANK (ii)(A) a debased(D) pessimism(B) a normative(E) goose bumps(C) a meticulous(F) curiosity6. To the untutored eye the tightly forested Ardennes hills around Sedan look quite (i) ______, (ii) ______ place through which to advance a modern army; even with today’s more numerous and better roads and bridges, the woods and the river Meuse form a significant (iii) ______.BLANK (i)BLANK (ii)BLANK (iii)(A) impenetrable(D) a makeshift(G) resource(B