We have yet to (i) _____ the assessment of Canada’s biodiversity. Most of the vertebrates have been assessed, but our challenge will be the assessment of invertebrates and plants. This task is (ii) _____ not only because of the high number of species, but also because of the diversity, each species requiring a different approach.

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A：initiate D：repetitious

B：complete E：trivial

C：limit F：daunting

答案：BF

The company’s efforts to improve safety were apparently (i) _____ , at least according to the company’s own data, which showed that the (ii) _____ incidents with the potential to cause a serious accident declined significantly. Nevertheless, independent analysts argue that those statistics are (iii) _____ .These analysts maintain that the company has consistently underestimated both the probability and the likely effects of accidents in the sensitive and poorly understood environment in which the company is operating.

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A：innovative D：frequency of G：deceptive

B：successful E：impediments to H：testable

C：frustrated F：attention to I：consistent

答案：BDG

Researchers trying to make it possible to trace counterfeit documents to the printer that produced them are (i) _____ the fact that the rotating drums and mirrors inside laser printers are imperfect devices that leave unique patterns of banding in their output. Although these patterns are (ii) _____ to the naked eye, they can be (iii) _____ and analyzed by computer programs that the researchers have spent the past year devising.

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A：exploiting D：invisible G：detected

B：facing E：obvious H：implemented

C：manipulating F：unappealing I：generated

答案：ADG

In her startlingly original writing, she went further than any other twentieth-century author in English (perhaps in any language) in (i) _____ literary language and form, (ii) _____stylistic conventions, and (iii) _____ a rich and diverse structure of meaning.

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A：reinventing D：undoing G：replicating

B：canonizing E：overpraising H：borrowing

C：stabilizing F：misunderstanding I：introducing

答案：ADI

The media once portrayed the governor as anything but ineffective; they now, however, make her out to be the epitome of _____ .

A：fecklessness

B：brilliance

C：dynamism

D：egoism

E：punctiliousness

答案：A