Answer Choices
foresight
temperament
conviction
audacity
integrity
4.Cecily is worried that, with all the recent innovations in computing, her five-year-old laptop and its software will soon be -------.
Answer Choices
redundant
obsolete
unnecessary
renewable
valuable
5.Harold, far from being a ------- , was not ------- to take a person holding opposing political views into his household.
Answer Choices
convert . . accustomed
bigot . . loath
fanatic . . susceptible
recluse . . sympathetic
persecutor . . inclined
6.The new administrator was -------; he considered new ideas worthy of consideration but ultimately ------- the old ways.
Answer Choices
an iconoclast . . undermined by
an opportunist . . reminiscent of
a sentimentalist . . preferable to
a traditionalist . . inferior to
an idealist . . instructive about
Explanation
1.答案:C
Choice is correct. The mayor was confident about her campaign, so it makes sense to suggest that she felt her political platform would prevail, or triumph. The phrase less...than indicates that as a result of her confidence, the mayor found her opponents popularity to be less than a threat; she considered it a mere distraction.
【阅读填空模拟题】相关文章:
★ 2017届高三英语百所名校好题速递分项解析汇编(第01期):专题02 阅读填空(原卷版)
最新
2016-03-02
2016-03-02
2016-03-02
2016-03-02
2016-03-02
2016-03-02