【10】4 I’ve long anticipated this retrospective of the artist’s work, hoping it would make
(i)_________ judgments about him possible, but greater familiarity with his paintings highlights their inherent (ii)_________ and actually makes one’s assessment(iii)_________ .
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| A modish | D gloom | G similarly equivocal |
| B settled | E ambiguity | H less sanguine |
| C detached | F delicacy | I more cynical |
【11】5 Higher energy prices would have many(i)_________ effects on society as a whole. Besides encouraging consumers to be more(ii)_________ in their use of gasoline, they would encourage the development of renewable alternative energy sources that are not(iii)_________ at current prices.
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| A pernicious | D aggressive | G unstable |
| B counterintuitive | E predictable | H adaptable |
| C salubrious | F sparing | I viable |
【12】6 But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty, refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming(i)_________ ,thereby embarrassing the nation and undermining the Constitution, which established various mechanisms of self-correction on the premise that even the wisest men are sometimes wrong and need, precisely when they find it most(ii)_________ , the benefit of(iii)_________ process.
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| A infallibility | D discomfiting | G an adaptable |
| B immunity | E expedient | H a remedial |
| C impartiality | F imminent | I an injudicious |
