1. Although she gives badly__________ titles to her musical compositions, they _________ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
　　A. exotic … belie
　　B. eccentric … deploy
　　C. traditional … exclude
　　D. imaginative … disguise
　　E. conventional … incorporate
　　2. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizes of French folktales have never__________them.
　　A. excluded
　　B. admired
　　C. collected
　　D. promoted
　　E. comprehended
　　3. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been__________ .
　　A. exaggerated
　　B. ignored
　　C. scrutinized
　　D. derided
　　E. increased
　　4. There seems to be no__________the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has__________recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.
　　A. quenching … moderated
　　B. whetting … mushroomed
　　C. curtailing … warned
　　D. ignoring … transformed
　　E. slaking … increased 　
　　5. Despite a tendency to be overtly__________, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
　　A. diverting
　　B. emotional
　　C. didactic
　　D. romantic
　　E. whimsical
　　6. One of the first__________ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
　　A. reformers
　　B. discoveries
　　C. casualties
　　D. critics
　　E. beneficiaries
　　7. The research committee urged the archaeologist to__________her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on__________ .
　　A. disseminate … supposition
　　B. withdraw … evidence
　　C. undercut … caprice
　　D. document … conjecture
　　E. downplay … facts
　　8. The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered__________despite widespread agreement that it was__________ .
　　A. respect … crucial
　　B. dismissal … simplistic
　　C. skepticism … unfathomable
　　D. opposition … indisputable
　　E. acceptance … comprehensive 　　
　　9. The rate at which soil can absorb water__________ with continuous wetting, so the longer a__________lasts, or the greater the rate of precipitation, the higher the percentage of water that will flow across the ground as runoff and enter stream channels.
　　A. rises … deluge
　　B. diminishes … drought
　　C. increases … shower
　　D. decreases … rainstorm
　　E. stabilizes … thaw
　　10. The ideas expressed in the art historian’s book are more__________than one would expect or the basis of her rather__________treatment of her subject in the opening pages.
　　A. compelling … intriguing
　　B. accessible … recondite
　　C. hidebound … reactionary
　　D. insightful … innovative
　　E. dispassionate … evenhanded