英文學測

Recent research has found lots of evidence to ______ the drug company’s claims about its “miracle” tablets for curing cancer.
(A) provoke
(B) counter
(C) expose
(D) convert

Corrupt officials and misguided policies have ______ the country’s economy and burdened its people with enormous foreign debts.
(A) crippled
(B) accelerated
(C) rendered
(D) ventured

As a record number of fans showed up for the baseball final， the highways around the stadium were ______ with traffic all day.
(A) choked
(B) disturbed
(C) enclosed
(D) injected

Studies show that the ______ unbiased media are in fact often deeply influenced by political ideology.
(A) undoubtedly
(B) roughly
(C) understandably
(D) supposedly

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In certain forests， when you look up you will see a network of cracks formed by gaps between the outermost edges of tree branches. It looks like a precisely engineered jigsaw puzzle， each branch growing just perfectly so it almost， ______， touches the neighboring tree.
(A) in no time
(B) by all means
(C) but not quite
(D) and pretty much

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Scientists have been discussing crown shyness since the 1920s， proposing ______ explanations for the phenomenon.
(A) universal
(B) productive
(C) conventional
(D) multiple

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Other scientists suggest that plants， like animals， ______ resources—nutrients， water， space， and light.
(A) get over
(B) compete for
(C) give way to
(D) make up for

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Gaps in the treetops resulting from crown shyness may allow trees to increase their ______ light and enhance photosynthesis.
(A) reliance on
(B) exposure to
(C) sensitivity to
(D) reflection on

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______ decades of investigation， there is no consensus on exactly what causes the beautiful and mysterious phenomenon of crown shyness.
(A) For
(B) Besides
(C) Despite
(D) Concerning

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Gravity has been at the top of the science agenda since the start of Mars missions. In the earlier days of space travel， scientists tried to overcome the force of gravity so that a rocket could shoot ______ Earth’s pull in order to land humans on the moon.
(A) back to
(B) free of
(C) long before
(D) straight on