1. Since one of Professor Roche's oft-repeated adages was that familiarity leads to ___, his students were quite surprised to find him so ___Return of the Native, a novel he had taught for over 30 years.
A love...enthusiastic over B contempt...disdainful of C knowledge...conversant with
D boredom...excited by E admiration...confused by
2. Reason was once believed to be ___ human, but lately this assumption of intellectual superiority has come under increasingly skeptical scrutiny: most researchers now at least ___ the notion that some animals can think.
A logically…ridicule B unique…entertain C scarcely…embrace
D quintessentially…balk at E peculiarly…scoff at
3. Powerful as they are, the ___ songs the artist is best known for might sting more and have even greater emotional complexity if one felt that his criticisms were aimed at himself as well as at his unnamed foes.
A accusatory B altruistic C mournful D simplistic E humble
解析：
1. 句中的Return of the Native由其后同位结构(一本他讲了三十多年的小说)可推论其即意味着familiarity，因而学生所感到惊讶的内容(即空格2)应和familiarity会带来的内容(即空格1)形成反义，因而排除ABC(均为同义);而E选项的admiration和confused并不构成反义;而D选项的boredom和excited可构成反义(厌倦与兴奋)。答案：D
翻译：由于罗希教授(Professor Roche)常挂在嘴边的格言之一就是熟悉会带来厌倦，因而他的学生当发现他对《本土人的回归》这一他已讲了三十多年的小说仍会兴奋时倍感惊讶。
2. 句中有两层关系，首先，由but后内容(人类的智力优越性愈来愈受到怀疑和审视)推论出前句内容应为推理被认为是人类的能力，因而空格1应表肯定，由此可排除C(scarcely表否定);其次，从冒号所起的解释作用可推论出大多数研究人员应支持动物能够思考观点，因而空格2应表肯定，由此可排除ADE(选项2均表否定)。答案：B
翻译：推理曾一度被认为是人类所独有的，然而近来这一关于人类的智力优越性的假设愈来愈受到怀疑与审视：大多数研究人员现今至少接受了一些动物也能思考这一观点。
3. 空格内容修饰歌曲，而由从句中his即指代主句中the artist可推论歌曲即意味着criticisms(批评)，因而空格内容应和此一致，即选择A(责问的，控诉的)答案：A
翻译：尽管一位艺术家赖以成名的控诉性歌曲如此有力，然而如若人们感受到艺术家的批判既是指向自己也是指向未提及的敌人，这些歌曲可能更会刺到痛处，也会在情感上更为复杂。
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