1. 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(shuō)成功的偵探非常靈活，這是他們的文化矛盾所____：他們的社會(huì)地位越是動(dòng)蕩，他們就越發(fā)敏銳。(a)唾棄(b)鏟除(c)激勵(lì)(d)匹配(e)消瘦。我們通過(guò)后半句可以知道，是社會(huì)地位的動(dòng)蕩使得偵探日益敏銳和靈活，對(duì)應(yīng)選項(xiàng)C中：spurred。
　　2. 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(shuō)Ramfield教授在書里描述說(shuō)，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(guò)(i)____過(guò)去，以至于(ii)______科技改變帶來(lái)的機(jī)會(huì)。
　　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(wú)關(guān) F.明確避免
　　可以看出i為B，ii為D，答案符合邏輯。
　　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(shuō)該地區(qū)自然資源一開始(i)____，然后(ii)______;因?yàn)檫@個(gè)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(shuō)有些人認(rèn)為人類壽命(i)____ 動(dòng)物壽命的極限，通常不會(huì)理會(huì)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(shí)呈現(xiàn)了一種現(xiàn)象叫做“可以忽略的(iii)______”，即使經(jīng)過(guò)兩個(gè)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(shuō)明真相的 A.返老回童
　　B.劃定 B.真實(shí)的 B.退休
　　C.先于 C.異端邪說(shuō) C.衰老
　　可以看出i為C，ii為A，iii為C，答案符合邏輯。
　　20151206
　　The family take importance on* face value，對(duì) ______ 沒有 tolerance.
　　(A) insensitivity
　　(B) dissimulation
　　(C) self-absorption
　　20130829
　　Although the parents do not think highly of the educational system“as a whole“，they fail to treat teachers with ____ equally.
　　A consideration
　　B veneration
　　C lucubration
　　D opprobrium
　　E reverence
　　F disdain
　　填空詞匯，有exiguous, venal, genial, marginalize. mordant shrewd tenous，mawkish 等等， 有個(gè)六選二有五個(gè)詞都不認(rèn)識(shí)，而且我也不記得以前見過(guò)，看來(lái)紅寶也不夠用啊。
　　還有impertinent, oracle,等等，就記得這么多了，填空一向比較弱。
　　經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展是發(fā)展中國(guó)家的______，但引起了環(huán)境問(wèn)題什么的：答的refuge和heaven，該題還有一個(gè)機(jī)經(jīng)，答案不一樣是：recipe和prescribe,處方的意思;
　　填空單詞有 lurid， panacea
　　填空說(shuō)一個(gè)政府只是表面民主，因?yàn)閄X都是少數(shù)家族把持的。