1 . Asch found that one-third of real participants gave the same wrong answers as the confederates at least half the time. Forty percent gave some wrong answers, and only one-fourth gave correct answers in defiance of the pressure to conform to the wrong answers provided by the group.
What does the underlined part “in defiance of” in paragraph 6 mean?
A.In spite of. | B.For fear of. | C.In response to. | D.On account of. |
2 . Glover and her colleagues tested their hypothesis in the lab. In their experiment, they found that bees felt confused sometimes when the petals were very iridescent and that bees had no problem finding the flowers with more nectar when the petals were not very iridescent. The team shared its new findings in the March 21 Current Biology.
What does the underlined word “hypothesis” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.Discussion. | B.Method. |
C.Assumption. | D.Invention |
3 . The call for public engagement with the unthinkable is especially germane in this moment of still-uncontrolled pandemic and economic crises in the world’s most technologically advanced nations. Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
What does the underlined word “germane” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Scientific. | B.Credible. |
C.Original. | D.Relevant. |
4 . Testing nonhuman memory retention (保持) is challenging; in research studies, “it’s rare that there is a gap of several years between when an animal stores the information and when it is next required to retrieve it,” says University of Oxford zoologist Dora Biro. For a recent study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biro and her colleagues compared domestic homing pigeons’ paths three or four years after the birds established routes back to their loft from a farm 8.6 kilometers away. The study built on data from a 2016 experiment in which pigeons learned routes in different social contexts during several flights — on their own or with peers that did or did not know the way.
The underlined word “retrieve” is closest in meaning to ________.
A.reserve | B.return | C.recover | D.record |
5 . Instantly, we were busily preparing for the worst. The whole family had experienced such a storm before and everyone remembered the damage it had caused to stock and crops. There was very little we could do about the crops. But we needed to protect the animals in case the river flooded again. My older brother called his sheep-dog and began driving our small flock of sheep to higher ground above river. If the river flooded, they should be safe there.
The underlined word “stock” in the paragraph above refers to _______.A.money owned by the family | B.goods for sale |
C.supplies for family use | D.farm animals |
6 . The bus was full, bumpy, and it soon got noisy as her kid began crying because he couldn’t sit next to his mother. There were a couple of open seats, but they weren’t together. She was flustered and looked embarrassed.
The underlined word “flustered” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.
A.angry | B.anxious | C.scared | D.upset |
7 . The Internet is changing the way we communicate. LOL, awks, amazeballs, BRB, the use of emoji and emoticon — and even writing facial expressions such as “sad face”— have all become standard in digital communications. So ingrained, in fact, that they’re changing the way we write and even talk.
What does the word “ingrained” in paragraph 1 most probably mean?
A.Deep-rooted. | B.Long-lasting. | C.Well-equipped. | D.Single-minded. |
8 . St. Petersburg enjoys a wide variety of bars meant for that original Russian vodka experience including the famous bar ryumochnaya. The bar was originally meant to defy the misbehavior of labeling people. It was a place for everyone to just enjoy a drink. A billionaire could be sitting happily next to a worker.
The underlined word defy is closest in meaning to______.
A.highlight | B.imitate | C.resist | D.reward |
9 . Having both is a good idea though it may sound extra redundant. You don’t want to entirely rely on the Cloud, just in case you lose access to your account, or if the provider closes down. And you don’t want to rely exclusively on offline storage, say, on a plug-in hard disk stored at the back of a cupboard, because if disaster strikes then your back-up will burn down alongside your computer and the rest of your belongings.
The underlined word “redundant” in paragraph 3 most probably means ________.
A.unnecessary | B.demanding | C.meaningful | D.useless |
10 . People’s sensitivity to blood sugar is also dampened when they’re tired, the study found, which suggests those who don’t sleep well are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes. “We saw that the fatty tissue is attempting to increase its capacity to store fat following sleep loss.” said Dr Cedernaes, “And we observed signs of breakdown of skeletal muscle. We also noted changes in levels of proteins involved handling blood glucose. This could help explain why the participants’ glucose sensitivity was impaired following sleep loss.”
What does the underlined word “dampened” in paragraph 4 mean?
A.Decreased. | B.Transformed. |
C.Transmitted. | D.Promoted. |