1. Many colleges and universities are now requiring that their students purchase personal computers.

(A) insisting (B) assuming (C) reporting

2. In 1795 John Jay resigned his position as the first chief justice United States and became a state governor.

(A) advertised (B) gave up (C) took over

3. An expert in any field may be defined as a person who possesses specialized skills and is capable of rendering very competent services.

(A) obtaining (B) mastering (C) providing

4. Even while making political statements, Ben Shahn was in full command of his technical resources.

(A) abilities (B) senses (C) facts

5. In his mathematics, Archimedes employed methods that resembled those of contemporary integral calculus.

(A) were similar to (B)established (C) were supported

6. When Washington D.C. was burned in 1814, Dolley Madison rescued many official papers from the White House.

(A) stole (B) filed (C) saved

答案：ABCAA C

詳解：

1、Insisting

堅持

The groups then fell to arguing amongst themselves each insisting its definition was correct and all the others were wrong.

這些盲人陷入了爭吵，每一組人都堅持自己的定義是正確的，指責別組的描述是錯誤的。

2、gave up

放棄;交出

He gave up his seat to the old man.

他把座位讓給老人。

3、providing

conj. 假如，以…為條件

v. 供給(provide的ing形式);預備

It is also a good modeling practice to end each branch of a process either with a termination node or by providing data as output.

用一個終止節(jié)點結(jié)束流程的每個分支，或在分支結(jié)束時提供數(shù)據(jù)作為輸出，這也是一種很好的建模方法。

4、abilities

n. 能力，才能(ability的復數(shù)形式)

He slipped a mention about my abilities into his talk.

他在談話中巧妙地提及了一下我的才能。

5、were similar to

與…相似

Note that because we'd built systems in the past that were similar to this project, our architecture would have benefited if we'd had some reference architectures to draw on.

注意，因為我們在過去的項目中創(chuàng)建的系統(tǒng)與目前這個系統(tǒng)類似，因此如果我們引用一些參考架構(gòu)，我們的架構(gòu)將會從中受益。

6、saved

adj. 獲救的;已保存的

v. 保護(save的過去分詞);救助

Gasoline, of course, must be saved in consumption.

汽油嗎， 還是省著用吧。