• [例题 16]

• We believe, perhaps in an unimaginative way, that this debate can be resolved

through further study.

• In the context of the passage, "unimaginative" is closest in meaning to:

• (A) pedestrian
• (B) controversial
• (C) unrealistic
• (D) novel
• (E) paradoxical

[例 17]
• So we spend much of our time in devilish pursuits, wandering the fields and
gardens surrounding the school, searching for sparks of creation we used to mold the
ordinary into the magical. On the grounds, we unearthed wild artichokes and ate them
raw, while they were still wet from the morning dew.

• In this paragraph, "pursuits" most nearly means

• A) studies
• B) activities
• C) vocations
• D) hobbies
• E) chases

• 1) Her happiness vanished like the morning dew.

• 2) Life has often been likened to a journey.

• 3) Shakespeare compared the world to a stage.

• 4) My brain was as powerful as a dyname, as precise as a chemist's

scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.

• 5) Wit and humor are to conversation what salt is to food.

• 6) Truth and roses have thorn about them.

• 1) College is a comma of a sentence of life.

• 2) The stormed the speaker with questions.

• 3) Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed

and some few to be chewed and digested.

• 4) Laws...like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught

and the great break through.

1) He paved the way for all the following jazz musicians and even

rockers.

• 2) This has become the apple of discord.

• 3) The lack of creativity is the Achilles' heel.

• 4) This is a catch-22.

• 1) The pen is mightier than the sword.

• 2) The lack of cohesion of the company accounted for the brain

drain.

• 3) Recently he has been steeped in O. Henry.

• 4) To read a Shakespeare or a Mark Twain is to eat a food full of

Protein.
1) To get a decent apartment these days in New York you

have to pay an arm and a leg.

2) He was miles out in his calculation.

3) It was so hot a noon that the leaves had to gasp for breath.

• 1) On Sunday they pray for you and on Monday they prey on you.

• 2) We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.

• 3)An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good

of his country.