Passage II: Goliath had three separate weapons, all ___(76)___ for close combat. He held a thrusting javelinmade entirely of bronze, which was capable of ___(77)___ a shield or even armor. He had a swordon his hip. And as his primary option, he carried a special kind of short-range spear with a metalshaft as "thick as a weaver's beam." It had a cord attached to it and an elaborate set of weights thatallowed it to be released with extraordinary force and ___(78)___. As the historian Moshe Garsielwrites, "To the Israelites, this extraordinary spear, with its heavy shaft plus long and heavy iron___(79)___, when hurled by Goliath's strong arm, seemed capable of piercing any bronze___(80)___ and bronze armor together." Can you see why no Israelite would come forward to fightGoliath?
【題組】76.
(A) optimzied
(B) optional
(C) outlawed
(D) outcast