2.The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.(A)trudges(B)meanders
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4.Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most o
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6.Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that many ma
7.If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ , but their intensity
8.The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer
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13.The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he c
14.It was her view that the country’s problems had been _____ by foreign technocrats, so that to inv
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【題組】39. By the mid-1980s, farmers in Denmark…(A) used 50 per cent less fertiliser than Dutch farmers
【題組】40. Which of the following increased in New Zealand after 1984?(A) Farm incomes (B) Use of ferti
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