Feb 8, 2009 Volume 2 -- root, #5(20)

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1. What the Journal ______ is not the tragic question, the Madman's question: "Who am I?", but the comic question, the Bewildered Man's question: "Am I?" A comic --a comedian, that's what the Journal keeper is.
2. It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which ________that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.
3. We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning ______, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
4. Write while the heat is in you. The writer who _______the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

A) posits
B) postpones
C) posture
D) exposure
E) expounds

lintelleUID: 2297267

A) posits
E) expounds
C) posture
B) postpones

ROOT:
pos, pon, posit, post, pound
to place, to set

posit:
–verb (used with object)
1.        to place, put, or set.
2.        to lay down or assume as a fact or principle; postulate.
–noun
3.        something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.

postpone:
1.        to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
2.        to place after in order of importance or estimation; subordinate: to postpone private ambitions to the public welfare.

posture:
–noun
1.        the relative disposition of the parts of something.
2.        the position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a whole: poor posture; a sitting posture.
3.        an affected or unnatural attitude: He struck a comic posture.
4.        a mental or spiritual attitude: His ideas reveal a defensive posture.
5.        one's image or policy as perceived by the public, other nations, etc.: The company wants to develop a more aggressive marketing posture.
6.        position, condition, or state, as of affairs.
–verb (used with object)
7.        to place in a particular posture or attitude.
8.        to position, esp. strategically: to posture troops along a border.
9.        to develop a policy or stance for (oneself, a company, government, etc.): The White House postured itself for dealing with the fuel crisis.
10.        to adopt an attitude or take an official position on (a matter): The company postured that the court's ruling could be interpreted as being in its favor.
–verb (used without object)
11.        to assume a particular posture.
12.        to assume affected or unnatural postures, as by bending or contorting the body.
13.        to act in an affected or artificial manner, as to create a certain impression.

exposure:
1.        the act of exposing.
2.        the fact or state of being exposed.
3.        disclosure, as of something private or secret: the exposure of their invasion plans.
4.        an act or instance of revealing or unmasking, as an impostor, crime, or fraud: the exposure of graft and corruption.
5.        presentation to view, esp. in an open or public manner: His exposure of his anger shocked the company.
6.        a laying open or subjecting to the action or influence of something: exposure to the measles; The exposure of his theories to ridicule destroyed his self-confidence.
7.        the condition of being exposed without protection to the effects of harsh weather, esp. the cold: to suffer from exposure.
8.        Photography.
a.        the act of presenting a photosensitive surface to rays of light.
b.        the total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination.
c.        the image resulting from the effects of light rays on a photosensitive surface.
9.        situation with regard to sunlight or wind; aspect: a southern exposure.
10.        a putting out or deserting, esp. of a child, without shelter or protection; abandonment.
11.        something exposed, as to view; an exposed surface: exposures of rock.
12.        public appearance, esp. on the mass media.
13.        a prominent, often overextended position or commitment, as in investment, that is considered precarious and risky: The bank was nervous about its exposure in Iran.

expound:
–verb (used with object)
1.        to set forth or state in detail: to expound theories.
2.        to explain; interpret.
–verb (used without object)
3.        to make a detailed statement (often fol. by on).

奔跑蜗牛UID: 2579189

小木眉咋这么勤奋呢 又出题了啊
偶来瞧瞧

奔跑蜗牛UID: 2579189

cade

艾惟UID: 2502625

1D
2E
3C
4A

囧囧囧囧

saavedroUID: 2423190

1. posture
2. expounds
3.  posture
4. postpones

奔跑蜗牛UID: 2579189

我们三个人的答案都不一样啊


小木眉 答案答案

艾惟UID: 2502625

而且不止是一点不一样。

奔跑蜗牛UID: 2579189

而且不止是一点不一样。
艾惟 发表于 2009-2-9 19:50

PK

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答案答案！！！！！！

lintelleUID: 2297267

还是丞相最厉害