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[单项选择]In spite of______among a few scientists, and years of______discussion, the claim that earthquakes can be predicted with great precision prevails.
A. antipathy … favorable
B. skepticism … contentious
C. mutualism … polite
D. receptiveness … intelligent
E. popularity … rancorous
[单项选择]Alec Guinness has few equals among Englishspeaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to be an uncommonly ______ prose stylist as well.
A. ambivalent
B. infamous
C. supercilious
D. felicitous
E. pedestrian
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Few creatures on earth are as cute as the black lion tamarin, and few have as dramatic a story line. Pug-nosed and diminutive, with a comic fringe of hair, these monkeys dwell in trees in small tracts of forest in southeastern Brazil. Or they did until 1905, when they were declared extinct. No one saw a black lion tamarin again in the wild until 1970. Later, in the 1990s, some Brazilian researchers turned up a small set of isolated, inbred populations scattered over a wide region. Since that time, they have been engineering tamarin migration, doing everything they can to save the world’s most distinctive primates.
Although they are no larger than house cats, tamarins have brains big for their size and a family life organized like our own. They live in groups anchored by an adult male andadult female, along with their offspring. When a mother bears young, she usually produces twins, and although members of the group share in their upbringing, it is most often the fat
A. a monkey
B. a primate
C. a house cat
D. a lion tamarin
[单项选择]Dinosaurs were reptiles which became extinct about 65 million years ago. The most intriguing question about dinosaurs has always been " (21) did they die out" There is no simple answer to this question, (22) many hundreds of scientists are studying the problem. They are not studying the extinction of the dinosaurs (23) , but the whole question of extinction. Many other plants and animals have (24) in the past, and it is important to understand (25) this happened. Having this information could help save many species that are (26) in the modern world. Humans are causing extinctions now, because of pollution and other damage (27) the environment. Maybe the dinosaurs can tell us how to save the earth today, (28) their extinction 65 million years ago! Some of the early dinosaur scientists, 100 years ago, thought the dinosaurs died out because the (29) changed, and they could not breathe. Others thought that the dinosaurs disappe
A. life
B. gas
C. air
D. surroundings
