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In Hardy‘s novels, various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. Inevitably,because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took paths of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style.But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulse was indulged, the style—that sure index of an author‘s literary worth—was certain to become verbose.
Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the passage ( "Thus…abstractly" )?
答案：A
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Precipitation is not______in the Atacama Desert west of Andes mountains, and water scarcity is compounded by problems with water appropriation, the existence of agro pastoralists is in jeopardy.
答案：A,D
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A guy wants to go to a store, a bank, a bookstore, and a shoe shop. It does not matter
which one he goes first, but he must go to a bank before he goes to a shoe shop. How
many different possible trip arrangements can he make?
答案：C
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The number of stores owned by Star Discount in 2015 was twice the number owned by Star Discount in 2010. By approximately what percent did the average annual earnings per store increase from 2010 to 2015 ?
答案：D
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The dark regions in the starry night sky are not
pockets in the universe that are devoid of stars as
had long been thought. Rather, they are dark because
of interstellar dust that hides the stars behind it.
Although its visual effect is so pronounced, dust is
only a minor constituent of the material, extremely
low in density, that lies between the stars. The average
density of interstellar material in the vicinity of our Sun is
1,000 to 10,000 times less than the best terrestrial
laboratory vacuum. It is only because of the enormous
interstellar distances that so little material per unit of
volume becomes so significant. Optical astronomy
is most directly affected, for although interstellar gas
is perfectly transparent, the dust is not.
pockets in the universe that are devoid of stars as
had long been thought. Rather, they are dark because
of interstellar dust that hides the stars behind it.
Although its visual effect is so pronounced, dust is
only a minor constituent of the material, extremely
low in density, that lies between the stars. The average
density of interstellar material in the vicinity of our Sun is
1,000 to 10,000 times less than the best terrestrial
laboratory vacuum. It is only because of the enormous
interstellar distances that so little material per unit of
volume becomes so significant. Optical astronomy
is most directly affected, for although interstellar gas
is perfectly transparent, the dust is not.
According to the passage, which of the following is a direct perceptual consequence of interstellar dust EXCEPT?
答案：B,C
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Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian
America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where
individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral
conditions. At least to argues E. Pessen in his
iconoclastic study of the very rich in the United States
between 1825 and 1850.
Pessen does present a quantity of examples, together
with some refreshingly intelligible statistics, to establish
the existence of an inordinately wealthy class. Though
active in commerce or the professions, most of the
wealthy were not self-made, but had inherited family
fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes
survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones.
Indeed, in several cities the wealthiest one percent
constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned
half of the community's wealth. Although these
observations are true, Pessen overestimates their
importance by concluding from them that the undoubted
progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth century
continued in the Jacksonian period and that the United
States was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even
before industrialization.
America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where
individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral
conditions. At least to argues E. Pessen in his
iconoclastic study of the very rich in the United States
between 1825 and 1850.
Pessen does present a quantity of examples, together
with some refreshingly intelligible statistics, to establish
the existence of an inordinately wealthy class. Though
active in commerce or the professions, most of the
wealthy were not self-made, but had inherited family
fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes
survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones.
Indeed, in several cities the wealthiest one percent
constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned
half of the community's wealth. Although these
observations are true, Pessen overestimates their
importance by concluding from them that the undoubted
progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth century
continued in the Jacksonian period and that the United
States was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even
before industrialization.
According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all of the following were true of the very wealthy in the United States between 1825 and 1850 EXCEPT:
答案：D
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In the solar system, collisions involving cosmic object are among the most _____ processes shaping surfaces: images of many solar objects show a proliferation of impact craters formed throughout the past 4.5 billion years.
答案：B
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In establishing that the dust she had observed constitutes two percent of the mass in the quadrant, the astronomer showed that the dust’s extreme visual prominence _____ its relatively minor contribution to the total mass of the region.
答案：A,B
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So, perhaps the lesson is that rather than wanting their monarchy to (i)_____ its modernized Scandinavian counterparts, the British public cherishes it most when it is most (ii)_____.
这里rather than取反一个modernized，一个过时的，这里cherish的对象不同，第一空为什么不填cherish的近义词commend？
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Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
hypothesis是什么呀，感觉这里只有observation然后给了interpretation啊
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Among geophysicists there was considerably less(i) ______ the proposed environmental measure than the (ii) ______ media accounts of the conference would suggest: the debate was often animated but never uncivil.
第一空可以理解事实比媒体报道的没有充满敌意，那不就说明媒体报道的是错误的，poignant有尖酸刻薄的意思是负向词，有些地方答案是E(耸人听闻的）这里第二空到底选择哪个呢
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The title of Lee's 1964 textbook, A History of Far Eastern Art, might seem to imply that the entire subject could be encapsulated in a single work. In fact, the treatment of art across Asian cultures and over millennia could never (i)______ if it also aspired to be (ii) ______.
为啥不可以选A~
前面说across cultures and over millennia，我理解的是：如果想comprehensive（即满足前面的across culture），就不能避免时代错乱（millennia）
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Some chemists argue that although molecular motors are (i)______ ,they are(ii)______by themselves; nevertheless, the chemical principles behind them might be(iii)______: using the same light-activated mechanism that drives certain molecular motors, researchers have developed around 100 drug-like compounds that can be switched on or off in response to light.
前两个空怎么理解，although intricate，又useless????
我选的A E I，虽然很复杂但是他们本身比较浅显直接；然而chemical principle behind可能没有被完全理解，因为后面说同一种mechanism可以develop出100种balabala
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Recently released statistics on the prevalence of heart disease in the United States, while (i)_____, nevertheless reflect a decline from heights reached in the 1960s, before health officials began publicly (ii)_____ people to guard against heart disease.
definitive查了一下韦氏词典有authoritative的意思，这里的第一空能排除C, 剩下的AB怎么选择，感觉和后面取同都能说的通
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To the avid reader of E.O. Wilson, much of his most recent book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge will be (i)_____, as the book represents the culmination of a life spent thinking about everything from the social lives of ants to the social lives of people. Nonetheless, new thoughts have been mixed in with the old to produce a book remarkable for its (ii)_____ and ambition.
第一空从后面as的描述有culmination，不是对这本书的正面评价吗，为什么不能选startling？predictable从哪里看出来的？
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The shift from extraction to cultivation in forestry involves transforming the production of trees into a source of industrial productivity, leading to a greater degree of (i)_____ between biophysical nature on the one hand and industry on the other. In the process, nature is increasingly (ii)_____ industry and science.
在AD和CE之间纠结，我觉得原文没有体现两者合并，不是说shift和transform to不是一个从另一个中分开吗？
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