1. The myth persists that in 1492 the Western Hemisphere was a (i)___ and that it was European settlers who harnessed and transformed its ecosystems. But scholarship shows that forests, in particular, had been altered to varying degrees well before the arrival of Europeans. Native populations had (ii)___ much of the forests to successfully cultivated stands, especially by means of burning. Nevertheless, some researchers have maintained that the extent, frequency, and impact of such burning was (iii)___.
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A wilderness D hesitated G superfluous
B demonstration E underestimated H considerable
C redundancy F converted I minimal
2. Burning also converted mixed stands of trees to (i)___ forest, for example the longleaf, slash pine, and scrub oak forests of the southeastern U.S. natural fires do account for some of this vegetation, but regular burning clearly (ii)___ it. Burning also influenced forest composition in the tropics, where natural fires are rare. An example is the pine-dominant forests of Nicaragua, where warm temperatures and heavy rainfall naturally favor (iii)___ tropical or rain forests. While there are primarily grow in cooler, drier, higher elevations, regions where such vegetation is in large part natural and even prehuman.
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A presumptuous D meditated G controversial
B contentious E dismissed H efficacious
C homogeneous F extended I motley
3. In contrast, some critics maintain that whatever authority judicial pronouncements have is exclusively institutional. Some of these critics go further, claiming that intellectual authority does not really exist—i.e., it reduces to institutional authority. But it can be (i)___ that these claims break down when a sufficiently broad historical perspective is taken: Not all arguments accepted by institutions withstand the test of time, and some well-reasoned arguments never receive institutional (ii)___. The reasonable argument that goes unrecognized in its own time because it (iii)___ institutional beliefs is common in intellectual history; intellectual authority and institutional consensus are not the same thing.
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A countered D predictability H revised
B emulated E imprimatur G challenges
C appreciated F accumulation I delimited
4. While right-to-work laws may not “destroy” unions by (i)___ the absolute number of unionized workers, they do (ii)___ the spread of unions and thereby (iii)___ wages within right-to-work states.
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A abating D precipitate G underprice
B inflating E delay H reduce
C downgrading F impede I blow up
5. Among the factors that (i)___ the competitiveness of integrated producers are excessive labor, energy, and capital costs, as well as manufacturing (ii)___: their equipment is old and less automated, and does not (iii)___ many of the latest refinement in steelmaking technology.
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A absences D consequential G privileged
B salaries E material H insolvent
C sufferings F minute I disadvantaged
6. Nonprofessional women are concentrated in secretarial work and department store sales, where their (i)___ can be covered easily by substitutes and where they can enter and leave the work force with (ii)___ loss, since the jobs offer so little personal gain: indeed, as long as family roles continue to be allocated on the basis of gender, women will be seriously (iii)___ in that labor market.
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A incorporate D inflexibility G amalgamate
B constrain E stability H intertwine
C are peripheral to F tradition I incorporate
7. Political theorists have been (i)___ of these applications of classical theory to the civil rights movement. Their arguments rest on the conviction that, implicitly, the classical theory trivializes the political ends of movement participants, (ii)___ rather on presumed psychological dysfunctions: reduction of complex social situations to simple (iii)___ of stimulus and response obviates the relevance of all but the shortest-term analysis.
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A indistinguishable D resurrection G suspension
B irreconcilable E competition H majority
C centrifugal F enthusiasm I stimulation
8. It is this (i)___ characteristic, Dahl argues, that makes polyarchy the nearest possible approximation to the democratic ideal. Polyarchy achieves this diffusion of power through party (ii)___ and the operation of pressure groups. Competing for votes, parties seek to offer different sections of the electorate what they most want; they do not ask what the (iii)___ thinks of an issue, but what policy commitments will sway the electoral decisions of particular groups.
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A suspect D reproaching G attention
B dismissive E focusing H theory
C adhesive F relying I paradigms
9. Many critics pointed to a gap between the model and the reality of Western political systems. They argued that the (i)___ of power resources other than the vote was so (ii)___ that the political order systematically gave added weight to those who were already richer or organizationally more powerful. So the power of some groups to exclude issues altogether from the political agenda effectively countered any (iii)___ of influence on decision-making.
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A accustomed D embellished G dozens of small figures
B critical E simple H scattered vivid figures
C tailored F elegant I spontaneous exaggerate figures
10. To critics (i)___ to the style of fifteenth-century narrative paintings by Italian artists from Tuscany, the Venetian examples of narrative paintings with religious subjects that Patricia Fortini Brown analyzes in a recent book will come as a great surprise. While the Tuscan paintings present large-scale figures, clear narratives, and (ii)___ settings, the Venetians filled their pictures with (iii)___ and elaborate building, in addition to a wealth of carefully observed anecdotal detail often irrelevant to the paintings’ principal subjects—the religious stories they narrate.
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A tribulation D uneven G reinforcement
B distribution E various H independence
C appreciation F superficial I diffusion
答案：
AEG CEH BFH AEG BDI CFH BEG ADG AFG ADG
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