1. So far as the food industry is concerned, the processing of sheep and lambs is relatively ___in the United States, accounting for only about 7 percent of meat-packing production.
A. irrelevant
B. appropriate
C. negligible
D. redundant
2. Could a mechanical device ever ___human intelligence—the ultimate test being whether it could cause a real human to fall in love with it?
A. destroy
B. duplicate
C. forge
D. eliminate
3. As the case of Amitar Ray and his family exemplifies, professional immigrants are among the most rapidly ___first because of their occupational success and second because of the absence of strong ethnic networks that reinforce the culture of origin.
A. assimilated
B. consumed
C. accustomed
D. fascinated
4. “This park has more than 200 waterfalls that are 15 feet or higher. And 150 of them have never been mapped or photographed "says park historian Lee Whittlesey. “Now that's a ___to the size of Yellowstone.”
A. proposition
B. hypothesis
C. ceremony
D. testimony
5. While researchers may not ___the expansive claims of hard-core vitamin enthusiasts, evidence suggests that the nutrients play a much more complex role in assuring vitality and optimal health than was previously thought.
A. authorize
B. license
C. counteract
D. endorse
6. Why do teens drink? Reasons vary from ___pressure to family patterns to social conditioning.
A. spouse
B. peer
C. antagonist
D. competitor
7. Some readers may find it ___that a book arguing for greater literacy and intellectual discipline should lead to a call for less rather than more education.
A. appealing
B. controversial
C. paradoxical
D. ambiguous
8. The ___of such I.Q. tests full of questions on American culture was not questioned at that time.
A. significance
B. validity
C. efficiency
D. justification
參考解析：
1.【答案】C. irrelevant不相關(guān)得; appropriate恰當?shù)? negligible可忽略不計得; redundant多余得。題意：就食品工業(yè)而言，綿羊和羊羔得加工在美國相對微不足道，僅占肉類包裝產(chǎn)量得7%左右。。
2.【答案】B. destroy毀滅，破壞;duplicate復制，模仿:forge鑄造，偽造:eliminate排除，消除。題意：一個機械裝置能復制人類得智力么？最終得考驗是它是否能讓一個真正得人愛上它？
3.【答案】A. assimilated被吸收得，被同化得; consumed被消費得: accustomed變習慣得; fascinated使著迷得。題意：正如阿米塔·雷（Amitar Ray）及其家人得例子所示，職業(yè)移民是被同化最快得移民之一，首先是因為他們在職業(yè)上取得了成功，其次是因為缺乏加強原文化得強大種族網(wǎng)絡(luò)。
4.【答案】D. proposition建議，主張;hypothesis假設(shè);ceremony儀式;testimony證據(jù)，證明。題意：“這個公園有200多個15英尺或更高得瀑布。其中150個從未被繪制過地圖或拍攝過，”公園歷史學家李·惠特萊西說。“現(xiàn)在那證明了黃石公園得規(guī)模。”李·惠特萊西指得黃石公園其中150個從未被繪制過地圖或拍攝過這件事正好可以證明公園規(guī)模之大，如果公園規(guī)模小得就不太可能出現(xiàn)那么多瀑布個從未被繪制過地圖或拍攝過。
5.【答案】D. authorize批準;license許可，特許;counteract抵消，阻礙;endorse在(票據(jù))背面簽名，正式替同或支持。研究者沒有支持那些頑固得維他命狂熱者。題意：雖然研究人員可能不支持硬核維生素愛好者得夸張說法，但有證據(jù)表明，營養(yǎng)素在確保活力和可靠些健康方面所起得作用比以前想象得要復雜得多。
6.【答案】B. spouse配偶;peer同等得人，同齡人;antagonist對手，敵手;competitor競爭者。題目是說來自同齡人得壓力是十幾歲得孩子喝酒得一個原因。
7.【答案】C. appealing吸引人得;controversial爭論得，爭議得:paradoxical自相矛盾得:ambiguous曖昧得，不明得。一本提倡更多得文化修養(yǎng)得書居然導致更少而不是更大得教育可見是自相矛盾得。
8.【答案】B. significance重要性;validity有效性，正確性;efficiency效率，功率;justification認為有理，認為正當。題目說得是只對美國文化進行提問得智商測試得有效性在當時并沒有受到質(zhì)疑。
