1. Professor Ramfield describes in his recent book publishing as dark as it is deep, even as one hidebound industry, indeed, it is facing a profound change in its product model, but is so (i)___ its past as to be (ii)____opportunities offered by technological change.

　　Blank (i) Blank (ii)

　　A. indebted in D. unable to seize

　　B. encumbered by E. capable of seeking

　　C. irrelevant with F. definite to circumvent

　　答案：BD

　　解析：這道題是說Ramfield教授在書里描述說，呆板的產(chǎn)業(yè)正在面臨產(chǎn)品模型的巨大改變，但是它們太過(i)____過去，以至于(ii)______科技改變帶來的機會。

　　空白(i) 空白(ii)

　　A負(fù)債的 D.不能抓住

　　B.被阻礙 E.可以尋找

　　C.無關(guān) F.明確避免

　　可以看出i為B，ii為D，答案符合邏輯。

　　2. The cognitive flexibility of successful fictional detectives is often ____ by their cultural ambivalence: detectives' intellectual acumen, it seems, exists in direct proportion to their uneasy place in society.

　　A. spurned

　　B. spaded

　　C. spurred

　　D. matched

　　E. emaciated

　　答案：C

　　解析：這道題的意思是說成功的偵探非常靈活，這是他們的文化矛盾所____：他們的社會地位越是動蕩，他們就越發(fā)敏銳。(a)唾棄(b)鏟除(c)激勵(d)匹配(e)消瘦。我們通過后半句可以知道，是社會地位的動蕩使得偵探日益敏銳和靈活，對應(yīng)選項C中：spurred。

　　3. The history of the region's natural resources has been one of initial (i)___ followed by (ii)___; as such the region has over time gone from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy.

　　Blank (i) Blank (ii)

　　A. abundance D.rapacious depletion

　　B. depletion E.vain endeavor

　　C. scarcity F.one-sided reciprocity

　　答案：AD

　　解析：這道題是說該地區(qū)自然資源一開始(i)____，然后(ii)______;因為這個地區(qū)逐漸從資源豐富型經(jīng)濟(jì)轉(zhuǎn)變到了資源依賴型經(jīng)濟(jì)。

　　空白(i) 空白(ii)

　　A.豐富 D.貪婪的耗盡

　　B.耗盡 E.徒勞的努力

　　C.稀少 F.單方面的互惠

　　可以看出i為A，ii為D，答案符合邏輯。

　　4. People accustomed to thinking that the human lifespan (i)_____________the outer bounds of animal longevity tend to dismiss tales of musket balls being found in the shells of living turtles. Samantha Romney，however，argues that while such stories may be (ii) ______________, some turtles do indeed exhibit a phenomenon known as “negligible (iii) _____________,” showing nosigns of aging even as they pass the two-century mark.

　　Blank (i)

　　A. belies

　　B. demarcates

　　C. antedates

　　Blank (ii)

　　A. apocryphal

　　B. authentic

　　C. heresy

　　Blank (iii)

　　A. rejuvenation

　　B. superannuation

　　C. senescence

　　答案：CAC

　　解析：這道題是說有些人認(rèn)為人類壽命(i)____ 動物壽命的極限，通常不會理會烏龜殼上發(fā)現(xiàn)子彈的故事。然而Samantha Romney認(rèn)為，這些故事可能(ii)______，但是一些烏龜確實呈現(xiàn)了一種現(xiàn)象叫做“可以忽略的(iii)______”，即使經(jīng)過兩個世紀(jì)也沒有變老的跡象。

　　空白(i) 空白(ii) 空白(iii)

　　A.掩飾 A.虛構(gòu)的但卻能說明真相的 A.返老回童

　　B.劃定 B.真實的 B.退休

　　C.先于 C.異端邪說 C.衰老

　　可以看出i為C，ii為A，iii為C，答案符合邏輯。