Many find it strange that her writing is thought to be tortuous; her recent essays, although longer than most of her earlier essays, are extremely ______.

A：painstaking

B：tedious

C：insightful

D：sophisticated

E：clear

答案：E

The judge’s standing in the legal community, though shaken by phony allegations of wrongdoing, emerged, at long last, ______.

A：unqualified

B：undiminished

C：undecided

D：undamaged

E：unresolved

F：unprincipled

答案：BD

Unlike the problems in recent financial scandals, issues raised by the regulators in this case appear largely to pertain to unwieldy accounting rules that are open to widely divergent interpretations─not to (i) ______ transactions designed to (ii) ______ corporate malfeasance.

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A：sham D：cloak

B：unpremeditated E：ameliorate

C：justifiable F：illuminate

答案：AD

This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their aesthetic qualities rather than for their ______ ones.

A：polemical

B：cinematic

C：narrative

D：commercial

E：dramatic

答案：A

Managers who think that strong environmental performance will (i) ______ their company’s financial performance often (ii) ______ claims that systems designed to help them manage environmental concerns are valuable tools. By contrast, managers who perceive environmental performance to be (iii) ______ to financial success may view an environmental management system as extraneous. In either situation, and whatever their perceptions, it is a manager’s commitment to achieving environmental improvement rather than the mere presence of a system that determines environmental performance.

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A：eclipse D：uncritically accept G：complementary

B：bolster E：appropriately acknowledge H：intrinsic

C：degrade F：hotly dispute I：peripheral

答案：BDI