Wednesday, August 21, 2013
TEXT COMPLETION DRILL 2 : 2 BLANK
1.
His writing in the New York Times provoked a lot of feedback, much of it
suggesting that he had been far too____(i)________ that while the situation may
be grim, it’s not ____(ii)________ and that the last thing scientists should do
is to stop looking for ways to keep recalcitrant weed alive.
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(i)
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(ii)
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apocalyptic
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pessimistic
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dire
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panglossian
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villainous
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long-lasting
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2.
Bradbury is ___________: that we’re a year closer to the demise of one of more
diverse and vibrant ecosystems the Earth has seen. Yet his prescience is
rejected by most experts, but they haven’t had much reason to be ___________,
either.
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(i)
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(ii)
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omnipotent
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untenable
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prophetic
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unimpeachable
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reprehensible
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ineffable
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3.
The strategy to employ surrogate for assessing the efficiency of the new HIV
medicine is clever, but also ____________: the surrogate’s body system is quite
_____________ dynamic human body consisting of unique DNA.
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(i)
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(ii)
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little bit
tenacious
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paralleled with
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craftily
manipulated
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dissimilar to
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quite challenging
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contingent on
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4.
Serendipity is usually not embraced heartedly by people, yet it was determinant
for Bouvis success in film industry: the more __________he became the
more______________his life became.
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(i)
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(ii)
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academic
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prerogative
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probabilistic
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mysterious
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determinateness
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flukiness
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5.
Although new species of insects and amphibians are discovered fairly regularly,
new mammals are ___________, and new carnivorous mammals especially are___________.
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(i)
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(ii)
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enormous
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frequent
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benign
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diluted
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inconspicuous
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harmless
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6.
Helgen continued his project with a paradoxical nature: the more he ___________
the world’s Olingo specimens to determine whether samples from a different
species might be hidden among them, the less ___________ the result of his
dogged experiment.
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(i)
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(ii)
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thoroughly ogled
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ostensible
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barely scrutinized
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unapparent
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meticulously
examined
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fallacious
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7.____________
is nothing new in sciences: competing theories sometimes coexist until one
drives the other out, or until both are discarded in favor of yet another
theory which is yet __________ by more dominant theory.
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(i)
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(ii)
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Innovation
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reinforced
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Refurbishment
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emasculated
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Reconciliation
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untarnished
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8.
Born in 1475 to an impoverished but ______________ family in Caprese, a
hillside town near Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti grew up with an innate
_______________, which as he aged, would feed his volatile temperament in the
midst of surroundings full of bureaucracy.
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(i)
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(ii)
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wretched
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feeling of dementia
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recalcitrant
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power of
intolerance
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aristocratic
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sense of pride
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9.
As much as the newbie entrepreneur, with fastidious insights, _____________
the unsounded complexity arosed in dealing with many more experienced monetary
businessmen, he is easily confounded when facing complexity which requires too much_____________ thinking to unravel.
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(i)
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(ii)
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circumvents
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delicate
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falters
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high-brown
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dispels
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myriad
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10.
A major goad for the recent ____________ of scientism has been the application
of neuroscience to human affairs. Certainly many of these applications are
foibles , yet it’s _____________ for intellectuals who are innocent in science
to advance the ideas that sciences are glib or wrong, and it is a mistake to
use a few unwarranted illustration as an excuse to quarantine the sciences of
human nature from our attempt to understand the human condition.
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(i)
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(ii)
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glorification
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impeccable
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denunciations
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unheard of
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illusion
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puzzling
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