Nordhaus predicts that in the future we will increasingly be (i)______ ecological problems like global warming rather than (ii)______ them. We may for example, make some headway in limiting emissions that contribute to warming, but much of our work will be in adapting to ecological problems and alleviating their effects.

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A：managing D：solving

B：analyzing E：addressing

C：transcending F：mitigating

答案：AD

What they see in Tanaka is the one candidate capable of (i)______ leadership, in direct contrast to Williamson, whose term in office has been marred by (ii)_______.

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A：compassionate D：grandstanding

B：decisive E：partisanship

C：nepotistic F：vacillation

答案：BF

Partly because of Lee’s skill at synthesizing (i)______ trends drawn from many fields of study, her theories appeared to present, with uncanny aptness, ideas already (ii)______ in the minds of her contemporaries.

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A：superseded D：discredited

B：irrelevant E：well-established

C：emergent F：half-formulated

答案：CF

Despite having only recently learned to walk, toddlers make the most (i)______ dance students.Their joy in movement is so pure, so complete and so (ii)______.

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A：skilled D：futile

B：inattentive E：irrelevant

C：delightful F：contagious

答案：CF

Tagore had a sharply defined sense of the (i)______ of scientific inquiry. The fact that science dealt in statistics and numbers, that its logic was probabilistic, meant that the domain of moral questions (ii)______ it: moral questions, for Tagore, required certainties, not probabilities.

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A：irrationality D：guarded over

B：limits E：lay outside

C：futility F：was subject to

答案：BE