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• 161In the nineteenth century, scientists showed that many familiar substances such asoxygen and carbon had a smallest recognizable constituent and called them atoms， but as even smaller constituents have been discovered, history has shown the name to be __.(  )。

  A.an anachronism

  B.an appellation

  C.a neologism

  D.a subversion

  E.a misnomer

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• 162The hopeless who __the movies of Ken Loach, Britain，s premier dogmaticfilmmaker, ultimately feel of no interest to the director beyond their ability to his__political points.(  )。

  A.analyze …ignore

  B.avoid … disregard

  C.criticize …articulate .

  D.populate …advance

  E.embellish …highlight

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• 163Despite the__her work received, her particular emphasis did not gain manyadherents for more than a generation.(  )。

  A.tolerance

  B.plaudits

  C.dismissal

  D.criticism

  E.sinecures

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• 164When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen：__ a superman, __, ademigod walking the earth.(  )。

  A.hymned … a nonpareil

  B.exasperated …a dabbler

  C.inveighed …a genius .

  D.lauded …an obscurantist

  E.apostatized … a commoner

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• 165There was an oddly__inflection to his speech, some said, a sense of merelygoing through the motions.(  )。

  A.roguish

  B.lackadaisical

  C.mellifluous

  D.acerbic

  E.reserved

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• 166Unfortunately, zealots not only fight with members of other faiths who challengetheir claim to a monopoly of absolute truth, but they also__their co-religionistsfor interpreting a tradition differently or for holding__beliefs.(  )。

  A.persecute …heterodox

  B.honor …heretical

  C.restitute …parochial

  D.lambaste …perfidious

  E.defend … secular

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• 167Reading the epic known to us as the Iliad is vastly different from the __experience of hearing and seeing it performed, for in place of the bard’__  s flow of sound and image, the reader beholds a mute tome, the size of longish novel.(  )。

  A.apocryphal …prehistoric

  B.preliterate … galvanic

  C.auditory … insipid

  D.succinct …abrupt

  E.scholarly … abstract

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• 168Supporters praised the governor’s action as a speedy and judicious solution, but critics condemned it by the same token as__and unfairly influenced by recentevents.(  )。

  A.indisposed

  B.verbose

  C.irrelevant

  D.hasty

  E.imperious

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• 169To implausibly suggest that this erstwhile__of financial__ was enrichinghimself at public expense is to shake the very foundations of the new Republic.(  )。

  A.victor … legerdemain

  B.exemplar …probity

  C.font …calumny

  D.enemy … cunning

  E.apprentice … reproach

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• 170There are few precious constants in the story of the yen__for a start, it is among the monies of the world, being not much more than a century old.(  )。

  A.a rarity

  B.a laughingstock

  C.an anomaly

  D.a stripling

  E.an abhorrence

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