[单项选择]Despite the______odds that the poor facilities and elements have brought about, they have managed to persevere as an athletic team and triumph.
A. (A) insuperable
B. (B) dispassionate
C. (C) indefatigable
D. (D) steely
E. (E) ambivalent

[单项选择]Despite the ------- odds that the poor facilities and elements have brought about, they have managed to persevere as an athletic team and triumph.
A. (A) insuperable
B. (B) dispassionate
C. (C) indefatigable
D. (D) steely
E. (E) ambivalent

[单项选择]Poor transport facilities and the lack of resources, raw materials and energy also partly ______ the drop in contract fulfillment.
A. contributed to
B. attributed to
C. depended on
D. accounted for

[单项选择]Jim is very poor now.

[单项选择]Despite their varied designs, navigation computers used in cars ______.
A. are more or less the same price
B. provide directions in much the same way
C. work on more or less the same principles
D. receive instructions from the same satellites

[单项选择]The unemployment rate （） sharply despite government policies designed to increase public sector employment.
A. was rising
B. will have risen
C. has risen
D. risen

[单项选择]Despite the wonderful acting and well developed plot the ______ movie could not hold our attention.
A. two hour
B. two hours
C. two hour’s
D. two-hour

[单项选择]Despite the influence of western culture, orthodox ideas about love and marriage are still dominant.
A. religious
B. stereotyped
C. conventional
D. updated

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Text 4 Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs. Common to all these writers is their humanistic perspective. Its basic premises are that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that in them alone is the clue to nature, history, and ultimately the cosmos itself. Without completely denying the existence either of a deity (the God) or of irrational matter, this perspective nevertheless rejects them as exclusive principles of interpretation and prefers to explain humans and the world in terms of humanity itself. This preference is expressed most clearly in the Transcendentalist principle that the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self; therefore, all knowledge begins with self-knowledge. This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or Ameri
A. The spiritual and the material worlds are incompatible.
B. Humanity can scarcely account for humans and the world.
C. Self-knowledge stems partly from the perception of the universe.
D. The structure of the universe can be discovered through self-knowledge.

[单项选择]Despite dangers and difficulties, the soldiers were resolute.
A. uncomplaining
B. untiring
C. well-disciplined
D. determined

[单项选择]Despite its efforts, the newspaper industry still cannot satisfy the readers owing to its______.
A. failure to realize its real problem
B. tendency to hire annoying reporters
C. likeliness to do inaccurate reporting
D. prejudice in matters of race and gender