请问下列几题填充题的正确答案，谢谢！ 1. While some argue that imposing tolls on highway users circumvents the need to raise public taxes for road maintenance, the phenomenal expense of maintaining a vast network of roads------reliance on these general taxes. (A) avoids (B) diminishes (C) necessitates (D) discourages (E) ameliorates : E (?) 2. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the transition from medieval ---- experience to modern individualism, we confront an electronic technology that seems likely to reverse the trend, rendering individualism obsolete and interdependence mandatory. (A) literary (B) intuitive (C) corporate (D) heroic (E) spiritual : C (?) 3. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of ---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists created ---- image of a land of infinite promise. (A) lurid .. a mundane (B) incredible .. an underplayed (C) dispiriting .. an identical (D) intriguing .. a luxuriant (E) unremitting .. a compelling : E (?) 4. Despite a string of dismal earnings reports, the two-year-old strategy to return the company to profitability is beginning to ---. (A) falter (B) disappoint (C) compete (D) work (E) circulate : D (?) 5. Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the teenager's face ----her denial that she had known about the practical joke before it was played on her parents. (A) belied (B) illustrated (C) reinforced (D) exacerbated (E) trivialized : A (?) 6. Despite its ----, the book deals with a number of crucial issues ----. (A) optimism .. cursorily (B) importance .. needlessly (C) virtues .. inadequately (D) novelty .. strangely (E) completeness .. thoroughly : C (?) 7. Despite the fact that it is almost universally ----, the practice of indentured servitude still ---- in many parts of the world. (A) condemned .. abates (B) tolerated .. survives (C) proscribed .. persists (D) mandated .. lingers (E) disdained .. intervenes : C (?) 8. In spite of the increasing-------- of their opinions, the group knew they had to arrive at a consensus so that the award could be presented. (A) impartiality (B) consistency (C) judiciousness (D) incisiveness (E) polarity : E (?) --

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