1. Certain weeds that flourish among rice crops resist detection until maturity by _____ the seedling stage in the rice plant’s life cycle, thereby remaining indistinguishable from the rice crop until the flowering stage.
(A) deterring
(B) displacing
(C) augmenting
(D) imitating
(E) nurturing
分析：空格填入一個現(xiàn)在分詞，表示“某些雜草(some weeds)”對于“幼苗期(seedling stage)”做的動作，thereby表示前后一致，remaining表示空格1要體現(xiàn)“不容易和水稻區(qū)分(indistinguishable from the rice crop)”的含義。A阻止;B移動，取代;C擴大，增加;D模仿;E養(yǎng)育，培養(yǎng)。D選項正確。
翻譯：一些在水稻叢中生長茂盛的雜草要到成熟才會被發(fā)現(xiàn)，它們通過模仿水稻生命周期中的幼苗來做到這一點，因此直到開花階段它們才能和水稻區(qū)分開來。
擴展：本題可以作為動植物自我保護機制的例子進行積累和擴展，雜草通過模仿(類似動物的擬態(tài))相似的植物來避免自己被發(fā)現(xiàn)。我們也可以積累其他動植物進行自我保護的手段和具體的實例。
2. Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a _____ island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.
(A) clannish
(B) serene
(C) declining
(D) tranquil
(E) recognized
3. Though environmentalists have targeted some herbicides as potentially dangerous, the manufactures, to the environmentalists’ dismay, _____ the use of these herbicides on lawns.
(A) defy
(B) defer
(C) defend
(D) assail
(E) support
4. Paradoxically, England’s colonization of North America was _____ by its success: the increasing prosperity of the colonies diminished their dependence upon, and hence their loyalty to, their home country.
(A) demonstrated
(B) weakened
(C) determined
(D) altered
(E) undermined
5. Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more _____ aspects of a thing.
(A) paradoxical
(B) stable
(C) prevalent
(D) unvarying
(E) temporal
6. Because it has no distinct and recognizable typographical form and few recurring narrative conventions, the novel is, of all literary genres, the least susceptible to _____.
(A) misuse
(B) imprecision
(C) inquiry
(D) definition
(E) innovation
7. Although ordinarily skeptical about the purity of Robinson’s motives, in this instance Jenkins did not consider Robinson’s generosity to be _____ consideration of personal gain.
(A) lacking in
(B) contrary to
(C) alloyed with
(D) mitigated by
(E) repudiated by
8. Because the report contained much more information than the reviewers needed to see, the author was asked to submit a _____ instead.
(A) abstract
(B) compendium
(C) soliloquy
(D) treatise
(E) prerequisite
答案：DDCEBDCB
(A) deterring
(B) displacing
(C) augmenting
(D) imitating
(E) nurturing
分析：空格填入一個現(xiàn)在分詞，表示“某些雜草(some weeds)”對于“幼苗期(seedling stage)”做的動作，thereby表示前后一致，remaining表示空格1要體現(xiàn)“不容易和水稻區(qū)分(indistinguishable from the rice crop)”的含義。A阻止;B移動，取代;C擴大，增加;D模仿;E養(yǎng)育，培養(yǎng)。D選項正確。
翻譯：一些在水稻叢中生長茂盛的雜草要到成熟才會被發(fā)現(xiàn)，它們通過模仿水稻生命周期中的幼苗來做到這一點，因此直到開花階段它們才能和水稻區(qū)分開來。
擴展：本題可以作為動植物自我保護機制的例子進行積累和擴展，雜草通過模仿(類似動物的擬態(tài))相似的植物來避免自己被發(fā)現(xiàn)。我們也可以積累其他動植物進行自我保護的手段和具體的實例。
2. Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a _____ island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.
(A) clannish
(B) serene
(C) declining
(D) tranquil
(E) recognized
3. Though environmentalists have targeted some herbicides as potentially dangerous, the manufactures, to the environmentalists’ dismay, _____ the use of these herbicides on lawns.
(A) defy
(B) defer
(C) defend
(D) assail
(E) support
4. Paradoxically, England’s colonization of North America was _____ by its success: the increasing prosperity of the colonies diminished their dependence upon, and hence their loyalty to, their home country.
(A) demonstrated
(B) weakened
(C) determined
(D) altered
(E) undermined
5. Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more _____ aspects of a thing.
(A) paradoxical
(B) stable
(C) prevalent
(D) unvarying
(E) temporal
6. Because it has no distinct and recognizable typographical form and few recurring narrative conventions, the novel is, of all literary genres, the least susceptible to _____.
(A) misuse
(B) imprecision
(C) inquiry
(D) definition
(E) innovation
7. Although ordinarily skeptical about the purity of Robinson’s motives, in this instance Jenkins did not consider Robinson’s generosity to be _____ consideration of personal gain.
(A) lacking in
(B) contrary to
(C) alloyed with
(D) mitigated by
(E) repudiated by
8. Because the report contained much more information than the reviewers needed to see, the author was asked to submit a _____ instead.
(A) abstract
(B) compendium
(C) soliloquy
(D) treatise
(E) prerequisite
答案：DDCEBDCB