陳圣元填空

2023年12月4日發(作者：仲秋節)

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1. The attempt to breed suitable varieties of jojoba

by using hybridization to---favorable traits was

finally abandoned in favor of a simpler and much

faster---: the domestication of flourishing wild

strains.同義重復

(A) eliminate.. alternative 沒有與attempt相關的信息

(B) reinforce.. method

(C) allow.. creation

(D) reduce.. idea

(E) concentrate.. theory

使用主干大法可以看出：the attempt was finally abandoned in favor of a _,此空格顯然應將attempt重新填進去，能表達這個含義的只有method.另外to_favorable traits從簡單的思維角度入手，可以猜得這里應該填入一個增加之類的詞。

2. According to one political theorist, a regime that its goal absolute---, without

any---law or principle, has declared war on justice. 反義重復

(A) respectability.. codification of

(B) supremacy .. suppression of

(C) autonomy .. accountability to不是參考，而是負責任

(D) fairness .. deviation from

(E) responsibility .. prioritization of

使用主干大法可以看出，a regime has declared war on justice.而修飾regime的就是that引導的從句，its girl absolute_,可以得知，空格填入的應該是”not justice”，能表達出這一意思的只有supremacy。

3. Although frequent air travelers remain unconvinced懷疑，不確認, rearchers have

found that, paradoxically, the---disorientation inherent in jet lag also may yield

some mental health---.反義重復

(A) temporal.. benefits

(B) acquired.. hazards

(C) somatic .. disorders (D) random .. deficiencies

(E) typical .. standards

disorientation是一個貶義詞，根據paradoxically，后面的空格應該填一個褒義詞。

ally, the proper u of figurative language must be bad on the denotative

meaning of the words, becau it is the failure to recognize this---meaning that

leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.反義重復

(A) esoteric

(B) literal

(C) latent

(D) allusive

(E) symbolic

關鍵詞是this。

5. Although it ems---that there would be a greater

risk of rious automobile accidents in denly

populated areas, such accidents are more likely to

occur in sparly populated regions.

(A) paradoxical

(B) axiomatic

(C) anomalous

(D) irrelevant

(E) portentous

6. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the

transition from medieval---experience to modern

individualism, we confront an electronic

technology that ems likely to rever the trend,

rendering individualism obsolete and

interdependence mandatory.

(A) literary

(B) intuitive

(C) corporate (D) heroic

(E) spiritual

7. The author did not e the---inherent in her

scathing criticism of a writing style so similar to

her own.

(A) disinterest

(B) incongruity

(C) pessimism

(D) compliment

(E) symbolism

biological uniqueness requires that the effects of a substance must be verified

by---experiments, even after thousands of tests of the effects of that substance on

animals.

(A) controlled

(B) random

(C) replicated

(D) human

(E) evolutionary

9. Today water is more---in landscape architecture

than ever before, becau technological advances

have made it easy, in some instances even ---to

install water features風景 in public places.

(A) conspicuous.. prohibitive禁止的

(B) sporadic.. effortless

(C) indispensable.. intricate

(D) ubiquitous.. obligatory例行公事

(E) controversial.. unnecessary

10. While many Russian compors of the

nineteenth century contributed to an emerging

national style, other compors did not----

idiomatic習俗的 Russian musical elements, ---- instead the traditional musical

vocabulary of Western

European Romanticism.

(A) utilize ..rejecting (B) incorporate.. preferring

(C) exclude.. avoiding

(D) repudiate.. expanding

(E) esteem.. disdaining

11. Becau the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder was

obsd with his ----perfection, he was rarely

----a painting, creating endless variations of a

scene on one canvas, one on top of another.

(A) quest for.. satisfied with

(B) insistence on .. displead with

(C) contempt for.. disconcerted by

(D) alienation from.. immerd in

(E) need for.. concerned with

12. Objectively t standards公正設立的標準 can rve as a ----for physicians,

providing them----unjustified malpractice claims不公正的錯誤指控.

(A) trial.. evidence of

(B) model.. experience with

(C) criterion.. reasons for

(D) test.. questions about

(E) safeguard.. protection from

13. In spite of ----reviews in the press,the production of her play was ----almost

certain

oblivion by enthusiastic audiences who acumen was greater than that of the

critics.

(A) lukewarm.. condemned to

(B) scathing.. expod to

(C) lackluster.. rescued from

(D) nsitive.. reduced to

(E) admiring.. insured against

當題目陷入僵局時，做題還需要嘗試從正評價或負評價的方面選詞。

14. The passions of love and pride are often found

in the same individual, but having little in common狀語, they mutually ----, not to

say destroy, not to say 雖然說不上 each other.

(A) reinforce

(B) annihilate

(C) enhance

(D) weaken

(E) embrace

15. A unique clay disk found at the Minoan site of

Phaistos is often ----as the earliest example of

printing by scholars who have defended its claim權利

to this status despite equivalent claims put forward for other printing artifacts.

(A) questioned

(B) overlooked

(C) adduced

(D) conceded

(E) dismisd

By前后結果與行為一致

16. Punishment for violating moral rules is much more common than reward for

following them; thus, ----- the rules goes almost ---- in society.

(A) association with .. undefended

(B) adherence to .. unnoticed

(C) affiliation of .. uncorrected

(D) opposition to .. unchecked

(E) ignorance of .. unresolved

17. Compassion is a great respecter of justice: we

pity tho who suffer ----.解題步驟：pity重復compassion，vicariously重復justice

(A) shamelessly

(B) unwittingly

(C) vicariously替罪羊的

(D) intensively

(E) undervedly

根據句意，可知空格里應填justice的反義詞。 18. MacCrory's conversation was --------: she could

never tell a story, chiefly becau she always forgot it, and she was never guilty of

a witticism俏皮話,

unless by accident.

(A) scintillating

(B) unambiguous

(C) perspicuous

(D) stultifying愚笨的

(E) facetious

根據句子中的語氣，空格中顯然應填一個貶義詞，只有D和E符合題意，仔細考慮，Efacetious雖然可以表達出she was never guity of a witticism,但是卻不能體會出前半句的意思，因而沒有stultifying覆蓋的范圍廣。做題時切忌以偏概全。

19. No work illustrated his disdain for a systematic approach to rearch better than

his

disrtation, which was rejected primarily becau his bibliography constituted, at

best,----- survey of the major texts in his field.

(A) an unimaginative

(B) an orthodox

(C) a meticulous

(D) a comprehensive

(E) a haphazard

20. Until quite recently rearch on diabetes had, as a kind of holding action,

attempted to refine

the -----of the dia, primarily becau no preventive預防的 strategy emed at

all likely to be

----- .

(A) definition .. necessary

(B) anticipation .. acceptable

(C) understanding .. costly

(D) treatment .. practicable

(E) symptoms .. feasible

21. Most plant species exhibit ----- in their

geographical distribution: often, a given species

is found over a large geographical area, but individual populations種群 within that range are

widely ----- .

(A) discontinuity .. parated

(B) density .. disperd

(C) symmetry .. obrved

(D) uniformity .. scattered

(E) concentration .. adaptable

冒號后是對上文的重復。第二個句子中But暗示一個轉折，本題從第二個空入手。

22. In contrast to the----- with which the

acquisition of language by young children was

once regarded, the process by which such

learning occurs has now become the object

of ----- .

(A) intensity .. fascination

(B) incuriosity .. scrutiny

(C) anxiety .. criticism

(D) reverence .. admiration

(E) impatience .. training

通過對句子主干的提取，可以很容易的看出空中的兩個詞應為反義詞。

23. There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people's social behavior

and the values informing it that cannot be ------from one or another point of view,

or even ------as simplistic or vapid.

(A) accepted…praid

(B) intuited…expod

(C) harangued…retracted

(D) defended…glorified

(E) challenged…dismisd

直接從as simplistic or vapid可以看出前面一個空應該填一個貶義詞，本題答案中只有e選項中的dismisd符合題意。如果從句子主干分析的話，there is hardly a generalization can

be made cannot be __ from one or another point of view.這時有accepted和challenged符合題意，但prad as simplistic or vapid顯然很荒謬。 24. Although any destruction of vitamins caud by

food irradiation could be ------ the u of diet

supplements, there may be no protection from

carcinogens that some fear might be introduced

into foods by the process.

(A) counterbalanced by

(B) attributed to

(C) inferred from

(D) augmented with

(E) stimulated by

25. The prevailing union of passionate interest in

detailed facts with eirqual devotion to abstract --

----is a hallmark of our prent society; in the

past this union appeared, at best, ------and as if

by chance.后面的紅字的小連接是判斷的關鍵

(A) data…extensively

(B) philosophy…cyclically

(C) generalization…sporadically零星的，偶然的

(D) evaluation…opportunely

(E) intuition….lectively

如果通過主句來判斷的話，the prevailing union is a hall the past顯然構成了一個時間上的類比，那么以前的union就不是hallmark,這里只有sporadically符合條件，而如果考慮到后面的小連接and if by chance的話，就直接可以選出第二個空為sporadically。第一個空應該是與fact并列的詞。

26. A century ago the physician's word was ------ to

doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious褻瀆的

(A) inevitable

(B) intractable

(C) incontrovertible

(D) objective

(E) respectable

這個句子是不是有點問題呢，我感覺應該是a century ago the physician’s word was

incontrovertible; To doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious. 27. Robin's words were not without emotion: they

retained their level tone平穩的語調 only by a careful ---

--- imminent extremes.

(A) equipoi between 小心的平衡

(B) embrace of

(C) oscillation between

(D) limitation to

(E) Subjection to

28. Although a change in management may appear to

------- a shift in a company's fortunes, more

often than not its impact is --------

(A) asurable

(B) demonstrable

(C) profound

(D) fundamental

(E) inconsiderable

從題目中易知第二個空格中應填與shift的感覺相反的詞，這里只有inconsiderable符合題意。而第一空，在不考慮第二空的情況下只能排除A選項。

29. The skeleton of ------- bird that was recently

discovered indicated that this ancient creature -

----- today's birds in that, unlike earlier birds

and unlike reptilian ancestors, it had not a tooth

in its head.

(A) obscured

(B) preempted

(C) anticipated

(D) foreshadowed

(E) differed from

30. People of intelligence and achievement can none-

theless be so ------ and lacking in ------ that they gamble their reputations by

breaking the law to further their own ends.

(A) propensity

(B) prosperity看成propriety了，下次注意

(C) deference (D) independence

(E) integrity

31. A number of scientists have published articles

------- global warming, stating ------- that there is no solid scientific evidence to

support the theory that the Earth is warming becau of

increas in greenhou gas.

(A) ategorically明確的，直截了當的

(B) paradoxically

(C) ptimistically

(D) hesitantly

(E) andidly

There is no solid evidence就說明了作者對global warming是持否認態度的，因而只有ACD可以候選，categorically這里指的是明確地，直截了當地，符合題意。

32. The nator's attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running

for a cond term is as -------- as her opponent's attempt to disgui his intention

to run against her.

(A) biad確實有點太主觀了

(B) unsuccessful

(C) inadvertent

(D) indecisive

(E) remote

既然說是disgui了，就說明已經暴露了，因而是不成功的。

33. Conceptually, it is hard to reconcile a defen

attorney's ____ to ensure that fal testimony is

not knowingly put forward with the attorney's mandate命令 to mount the most

____ defen conceivable for the client.

(A) efforts ... cautious

(B) duty ... powerful

(C) inability ... eloquent

(D) failure ... diversified

(E) promis ... informed

錯誤的理解了mandate的含義。 34. Originally, most intellectual criticism of

mass culture was ____ in character, being bad

on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the

more ____ the product.

(A) unpredictable ... undesirable

(B) ironic ... popular

(C) extreme ... outlandish

(D) frivolous ... superfluous

(E) negative ... shoddy

35. Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the com crop, the yield of the

harvest was ____; conquently, the corn rerves of the country have not been

____.

(A) inadequate ... replenished

(B) encouraging ... depleted

(C) compromid ... salvaged

(D) abundant ... extended

(E) disappointing ... harmed

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