A major goal of law, to prevent potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers,is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it _____ to be a credible threat.

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• 1Psychology has slowly evolved into an _____ scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.

  A.independent

  B.unusual

  C.outmoded

  D.uncontrolled

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• 2You need a special _____ to go into this part of the building.

  A.permission

  B.allowance

  C.permit

  D.agreement

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• 3Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of _____ ，is the first step in learning to be creative.

  A.elegance

  B.resolution

  C.goodness

  D.originality

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• 4Everything _____ into consideration, his plan seems to be workable.

  A.taking

  B.to be taken

  C.taken

  D.is taken

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• 5The great progress in modern transportation must not be thought of as _____ in a short period of time.

  A.being made

  B.having been made

  C.to be made

  D.to have been made

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• 6When people are happy, they tend to give _____ interpretations of events they witness:the eye of the beholder is colored by the emotions of the beholder.

  A.charitable

  B.elaborate

  C.conscientious

  D.vague

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• 7The new office block _____ well with its surroundings.

  A.blends in

  B.stands out

  C.shaped up

  D.sets off

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• 8The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to _____ its significance.

  A.underrate

  B.control

  C.reassess

  D.praise

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• 9Their mutual teasing seemed friendly, but in fact it _____ a longstanding hostility.

  A.produced

  B.masked

  C.contravened

  D.revealed

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• 10It has been argued that politics as _____ , whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.

  A.a theory

  B.an ideal

  C.a practice

  D.a contest

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