While people complain about their hectic lives and demanding schedules, one might be justified in suspecting that they are being somewhat (i)_______: compulsive busyness seems to be,for many, a source of (ii)_______.

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　　A：disingenuous D：pride

　　B：guarded E：despair

　　C：dilatory F：irritation

　　答案：AD

　　The author argued that the field of sociology has been overly (i)_______, partly because, for many scholars, the edges of the social universe are defined by national borders. In this era of increasing globalization, however, sociology is presented with a historically distinct opportunity to transcend its former (ii)_______.

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　　A：narrow in scope D：utilitarianism

　　B：susceptible to fads E：parochialism

　　C：averse to empiricism F：historicism

　　答案：AE

　　Readers may initially be irked by the book’s apparent (i)_______ but, once immersed in the author’s prose, they may come to regard the work’s (ii)_______ as an asset.

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　　A：flippancy D：subtlety

　　B：aimlessness E：discursions

　　C：tendentiousness F：exhaustiveness

　　答案：BE

　　The national bank has been uncommonly powerful in comparison to its counterparts in other nations. It retains this potency partly because its control of the nation’s banking system is (i)_______governmental interference, and thus its actions remain largely (ii)_______.

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　　A：unencumbered by D：compulsory

　　B：replete with E：discretionary

　　C：hindered by F：bureaucratic

　　答案：AE

　　The material covered in this article has been (i)_______in previous publications, and since currently neglected areas remained unexplored, the article contains no (ii)_______.

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　　A：skirted D：revelations

　　B：scrutinized E：distortions

　　C：countered F：conclusions

　　答案：BD