[单项选择]The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight and did nothing to help the drowning child.
A. pitiable
B. unreasonable
C. depressing
D. immoral

[单项选择]The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight and did nothing to help the drowning child.
A. pitiable
B. unreasonable
C. depressing
D. immoral

[单项选择]Impressionism began with a small group of artists who wanted to ______.
A. use light colors
B. fight the government
C. become scientists
D. show their paintings

[单项选择]Only a small and select group of electrical engineers was shown the designs for the microprocessors in order to ensure ______.
A. confident
B. confidential
C. confidentially
D. confidentiality

[单项选择]The commission presented its report in January and this was broadly ______ in July of that year.
A. encased
B. encored
C. endued
D. endorsed

[单项选择]Legal experts have presented that the DNA samples and fingerprints match.
A. evident
B. evidence
C. evidently
D. to evident

[单项选择]Data from Voyager II have presented astronomers with a {{U}}puzzle{{/U}} about why our outermost planet exists.
A. problem
B. mystery
C. question
D. point

[单项选择]Which of the following is presented by the author in support of the suggestion that there is stereotypic thinking among members of the academic establishment


A. A distinctively feminist contribution to humanistic understanding could work against the influence of sexism among members of the academic establishment.
B. Women who define criticism as artistic may be seen by the academic establishment as being incapable of critical thinking.
C. The debate over the role of the literary critic is often seen as a political one.
D. Women scholars are only now entering academic in substantial numbers.

[单项选择]As it is presented in the passage, the development of the human character and personality is a seties of______ rather than a smooth progression.


A. acts
B. stages
C. functions
D. completions

[单项选择]Which of the following, if presented as the first sentence of a succeeding paragraph, would most logically continue the discussion presented in the passage


A. The influence of volcanic eruptions on global weather patterns is almost completely understood at present.
B. Scientists have only begun to understand, however, the effects of these wavelengths of light on the global environment.
C. The majority of global cooling effects have thus been attributed to volcanic explosions.
D. The human warming activities ameliorate by volcanic eruptions include those produced both by heavy industry and agriculture.
E. (E) The reason that sulfate aerosols take an unusually large time to disperse owes primarily to meteorological factors, including the jet stream.

[单项选择]The word "presented" in Line 3 of Paragraph 5 can be best replaced by ______.


A. appeared
B. introduced
C. challenged
D. changed

[单项选择]A) valued C) tested
B) presented D) indicated


A. valued
B. presented
C. tested
D. indicated

[单项选择]As it is presented in the passage, rather than a smooth progression the development of the human character and personality is a series of______


A. acts
B. stages
C. functions
D. completions