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Exercise 37
1. Currently, pumps that could boost the natural pressure sufficiently to drive
the crude through a pipeline to the shore do not work (i)____ because of the
crude’s content. Crude may consist of oil or natural gas in (ii)___
states—combinations of liquids, gases, and solids under pressure—that do
not reach the wellhead in (iii)___ proportions. The flow of crude oil, for
example, can change quickly from 60 percent liquid to 70 percent gas.
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A consistently D monotonous G constant
B simultaneously E multiphase H different
C successively F derivative I large
2. Because painting frescoes requires an unusually sophisticated hand,
particularly in the representation of human form, the development of drawing
skill was (i)___ to artistic training in Tuscany, and by 1500 the public there
tended to distinguish artists on the basis of how well they could draw human
figures. In Venice, a city virtually without frescoes, this kind of skill was
acquired and (ii)___ much later. Gentile Bellini, for example, although
regarded as one of the supreme painters of the day, was (iii)___ at drawing.
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A substantial D reprimanded G feeble
B circumstantial E appreciated H familiar
C peripheral F transcribed I virtuoso
3. Currently, legal scholars agree that in some cases legal rules do not specify
a definite outcome. These scholars believe that such (i)___ results from the
(ii)___of language: the boundaries of the application of a term are often
unclear. Nevertheless, they maintain that the system of legal rules by and
large rests on clear core meanin gs that do determine definite outcomes for
most cases. Contrary to this view, an earlier group of legal philosophers,
called “realists,” argued that (iii)___ pervades every part of the law.
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A definition D circumstantiality G uncertainty
B indeterminacy E vagueness H speculation
C homogeneousness F nuance I enforceness
4. The kind of civil disobedience King had in mind was, in fact, quite
different from Thoreau’s view of civil disobedience. Thoreau, like most other
transcendentalists, was primarily interested in reform of the (i)___, whereas
King was primarily interested in reform of society. As a protest against the
Mexican War, Thoreau refused to pay taxes, but he did not hope by his
action to force a change in national policy. While he (ii)___ others to adopt
similar protests, he did not attempt to mount any mass protest action against
unjust laws. In contrast to Thoreau, King began to (iii)___ the use of mass
civil disobedience to effect revolutionary changes within the social system.
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A government D dismiss G advocate
B individual E encourage H participate
C corporation F undermine I emulate
5. The old belief that climatic stability accounts for the high level of species
diversity in the Amazon River basin of South America emerged, strangely
enough, from observations of the deep sea. Sanders discovered high diversity
among the mud - dwelling animals of the deep ocean. He argued that such
diversity could be attributed to the absence of significant (i)___ in climate
and physical conditions, without which the (ii)___ of species should be rare.
In the course of time new species would continue to evolve, and so the rate
of speciation would be greater than the rate of (iii)___, resulting in the
accumulation of great diversity.
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A consistency D transmission G disappearance
B fluctuations E extinction H generation
C duration F advancement I continuation
6. The advantages of (i)___ the scope of such studies is immediately
apparent in Pelling and Webster’s study of sixteenth- century London. Instead
of (ii)___ officially recognized and licensed practitioners, the researchers
defined a medical practitioner as “any individual whose occupation is
basically concerned with the care of the sick.” Using this defini tion, they
found primary source information suggesting that there were 60 women
medical practitioners in the city of London in 1560. Although this figure may
be slightly exaggerated, the evidence (iii)___ with that of Gottfried, whose
earlier survey identified only 28 women medical practitioners in all of
England between 1330 and 1530.
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A identifying D consulting specifically on G contrasts strikingly
B broadening E focusing solely on H almost identifies
C linking F counting generally on I antedates sharply
7. Modern architecture has been criticized for emphasizing practical and
technical issues at the expense of (i)___ concerns. The high - rise buildings
constructed throughout the industrialized world in the 1960s and 1970s
provide ample evidence that (ii)___ and utility have became the overriding
concerns of the modern architect. However, Otto Wagner’s seminal text on
modern architecture, first published in Germany in 1896, indicates that the
failure of modern architecture cannot be (iii)___ on the ideals of its founders.
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A financial D superficiality G blamed
B aesthetic E cost- efficiency H analyzed
C structural F diversity I exemplified
8. Most of Watteau’s nineteenth- century admirers simply ignored the (i)___
background of the works they found so lyrical and charming. Those who
took the (ii)___ historical facts into consideration did so only in order to
(iii)___ the widely held deterministic view that the content and style of an
artist’s work were absolute ly dictated by heredity and environment.
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A grim D inconvenient G refute
B obsolescent E compatible H exaggerate
C ludicrous F longstanding I review
9. The legislation of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce
the (i)___ inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions
that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a
plaintiff. The bill places the burden of proof in reclamation litigation entirely
on the plaintiff, who must (ii)___ that the holder of an item knew at the time
of purchase that it had been stolen. Therefore, the bill creates a uniform
national statute of (iii)___ for reclamation of stolen cultural property.
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A uncertainty D demonstrate G limitations
B redundancy E avoid H enhancements
C availability F speculate I specificity
10. J. G. A.  ocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the
fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in
light of the linguistic (i)___ to which its author was subject, for these
prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author’s
conceptualization of this subject matter. Only the occasional epic theorist,
like Machiavelli or Hobbes, (ii)___ in breaking out of these (iii)___ by
redefining old terms and inventing new ones.
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A constraints D succeeded G bonds
B anachronisms E failed H possibility
C jargons F concerned I definition |
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