2016考博英语词汇单选练习（6）

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　　76. Gen. David Sarnoff felt prompted to issue a statement in defense of the TV industry. He pointed out that there was much good in its programs that was being overlooked while its occasional _________ were being overly stressed.

　　a. obligations b. decentralization c. derelictions d. demobilizations

　　77. Audiences needed to be sensitized more and more to the positive qualities of the entertainment and cultural media. In addition, through such increased public sensitivity, producers would be encouraged to provide even more of the fine, and less of the _________.

　　a. delicate b. sordid c. subtle d. exquisite

　　78. All in all, what should be done to encourage and condone the good, and to discourage and _________ in the American cultural pattern?

　　a. forgive the shame b. disregard the innocent

　　c. condemn the unsavory d. ignore the unpleasant

　　79. In the Middle Ages, it was the Church in the Western World that produced the morality and mystery plays. With such a long history it is not surprising to find a(n) _________ between the Bible and the Theatre.

　　a. affinity b. conflict c. cooperation d. appreciation

　　80. In spite of some incurious or inept minds, the human intellect is naturally philosophical; it has a _________ thirst for knowledge, not merely for data but for their explorations, justifications, and proofs; …

　　a. quenchless b. etymological c. metaphysical d. conspicuous

　　81. Concerning speculation, philosophy looks upon things from the broadest possible perspective; as for criticism, it has the twofold role of questioning and judging everything that _________ either to the foundations or to the superstructure of human thinking.

　　a. pertains b. supplicate c. despise d. beseech

　　82. Belief in alien gods foundered only where it was the product of an absurd superstition, something that _________ of a fantastic bestiary.

　　a. was aware b. smacked c. consisted d. bragged

　　83. What about God? He is so _________, so awesome, that he remains far above the circle. To represent him, draw an arrow, pointing upward from the center of the circle and mark it with the sign of infinity.

　　a. amiable b. mediocre c. hypocritical d. exalted

　　84. The meaning of the word science is confused because many endeavors _________ under the name of science do not have any valid connection with it.

　　a. profound b. masquerading c. acting d. confusing

　　85. In Scholasticism and Politics, written during WWII, Maritian expressed discouragement at the pessimism and lack of self-confidence characteristic of the Western democracies, and in the postwar world he joined enthusiastically in the _________ of that confidence.

　　a. resurgence b. continuity c. maintenance d. extension

　　86. But his postulation of a possible Christian civilization in America did not in any way _________ his optimistic political liberalism.

　　a. cover b. temper c. increase d. aid

　　87. One of the exquisite ironies of recent Catholic history was that Maritain in his last books was acerbically critical of _________ priests, while the Dominican chaplain resigned from the priesthood and ended his days as a real estate salesman in Florida.

　　a. sanctimonious b. awesome c. secularizing d. hypocritical

　　88. Given the persistent and _________ nature of the American race system, which proved quite impervious to black attacks, Du Bois in his speeches and writings moved from one proposed solution to another, ...

　　a. fragile b. intransigent c. bombastic d. fictitious

　  89. Business-school casebooks are full of stories about fashionable companies that, in search of

　　_________ stretched their brand names past the breaking point.

　　a. uniformity b. insistence c. diversification d. adversity

　  90. The _________of the Greeks and Romans, though a religion without salvation or afterlife, was not necessarily indifferent to man's moral behavior.

　　a. Christian b. polytheist c. paganism d. deity