单项选择题The presence of armed guards ______ us from doing anything disruptive.
A.defeated
B.irritated
C.prevented
D.encouraged
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1.单项选择题The modern age is a permissive one in which things can be said explicitly, but the old traditon of ______ dies hard.
A.talkativeness
B.exaggeration
C.condemnation
D.euphemism
2.单项选择题In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so ______ that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden sea.
A.permanently
B.imperceptibly
C.irregularly
D.precariously
3.单项选择题Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain ______.
A.arbitrary
B.estimable
C.unspoken
D.equivocal
4.单项选择题The new machine failed to ______ the garbage. As a result, the kitchen was filled to bursting with smelly leftovers.
A.expand
B.compact
C.produce
D.criticize
5.单项选择题The painting was larger than it appeared to be. For, hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was ______ by the perspective.
A.improved
B.embellished
C.jeopardized
D.diminished
6.单项选择题Some customs travel well. Often, however, behavior that is considered the epitome of ______ at home is perceived as impossibily rude or, at the least, harmlessly bizarre abroad.
A.novelty
B.eccentricity
C.urbanity
D.tolerance
7.单项选择题Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal ______.
A.impulse
B.sarcasm
C.mockery
D.contempt
8.单项选择题It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior. The character of the codes, on the other hand ,can often be ______.
A.predictable
B.unexpected
C.explicit
D.confusing
9.单项选择题Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ______ signs of adolescent anxiety.
A.prophetic
B.normal
C.monotonous
D.virtual
10.单项选择题Consider the universal cannibalism of the sea, all of whose creatures ______ one another.
A.hide from
B.ferret out
C.prey on
D.compete against
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