Instant celebrity is often (i) _____ asset because if there is no (ii) _____ to interest the public—no stage or screen triumphs,no interesting books, no heroic exploits—people quickly become bored.

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A：a fleeting D：competing attraction

B：an incomparable E：continuity of exposure

C：an untapped F：real achievement

答案：AF

At their best, (i) _____book reviews are written in defense of value and in the tacit hope that the author, having had his or her (ii) _____ pointed out, might secretly agree that the book could be improved.

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A：abstruse D：strengths

B：adverse E：transgressions

C：hortatory F：assumptions

答案：BE

The gaps in existing accounts of the playwright’s life are not (i) _____ , since much of the documentary evidence on which historians have relied is (ii) _____

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A：trifling D：credible

B：obvious E：extant

C：implicit F：incomplete

答案：AF

That today’s students of American culture tend to (i) _____ classical music is understandable. In our own time, America’s musical high culture has degenerated into a formulaic entertainment divorced from the contemporary moment. Thus, to miss out on what our orchestras are up to is not to (ii) _____ much. In the late Gilded Age, however, music was widely esteemed as the “queen of the arts.” Classical music was in its American heyday, (iii) _____ the culture at large.

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A：promote D：sacrifice G：antagonistic toward

B：reinterpret E：appreciate H：generally rejected by

C：ignore F：malign I：centrally embedded in

答案：CDI

The serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularly credited with having rendered obsolete aonce-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art. Yet this alteration of attitudes may be somewhat (i) _____ . Although it is now academically respectable to analyze popular culture, the fact that many intellectuals feel compelled to rationalize their own (ii) _____ action movies or mass-market fiction reveals,perhaps unwittingly, their continued (iii) _____ the old hierarchy of high and low culture.

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A：counterproductive D：penchant for G：aversion to

B：underappreciated E：distaste for H：investment in

C：overstated F：indifference to I：misunderstanding of

答案：CDH