大学英语：Love and logic The story of a fallacy

一、单选题
1. With the data collected each year, the owner of the shop can _______ customer
trends and how things like weather and economic indicators affect sales performance.
A. defy
B. discern
C. distinguish
D. distort
正确答案：B
2. His supervisor pushes and motivates him in such a positive manner that he is not only able to reach but to ______ his personal goals.
A. shrewd
B. stump
C. surpass
D. suppose
正确答案：C
3. I was not only shocked but also disgusted that the report tried to ______ the scientific facts in such a manner that even some newly-educated people were fooled.
A. deduce
B. dye
C. disperse
D. distort
正确答案：D
4. French educator Louis Braille invented a simple but ______ code which has had an impact on the lives of generations of people who are blind.
A. ingenious
B. indifferent
C. elite
D. enlightened
正确答案：A
5. As the gender barriers______, the number of women working as lawyers, doctors, or bankers began to increase significantly from the mid-20th century.
A. crashed
B. crumbled
C. stumped
D. crushed
正确答案：B
6. He is a man with a(n)______ business sense. He has built his initial investment into a substantial and even excessively
large fortune.
A. staple
B. analytical
C. shrewd
D. tactic
正确答案：C
7. The _______of nuclear radiation directly into electricity was an exciting possibility that was being vigorously explored in many laboratories in the 1950s.
A. conversion
B. commission
C. deduction
D. proposition
正确答案：A
8. The couple ________ never to work at the same time, so that one of them was always on full-time parenting duty, and their child wouldn’t have to be looked after by strangers.
A. made a pact
B. reach a compromise
C. appealed to
D. set a date
正确答案：A
9. As urban populations exported finished goods ________ raw materials from neighboring populations, organized trade grew substantially.
A. be dripped with
B. flared up
C. boiled down to
D. in exchange for
正确答案：D
10. Biology teachers often ________ the heart and a pump in order to help students understand how the heart works.
A. make sense
B. make a compromise
C. make a pact
D. make an analogy between
正确答案：D。