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
详解：
1、Insisting
坚持
The groups then fell to arguing amongst themselves each insisting its definition was correct and all the others were wrong.
这些盲人陷入了争吵，每一组人都坚持自己的定义是正确的，指责别组的描述是错误的。
2、gave up
放弃;交出
He gave up his seat to the old man.
他把座位让给老人。
3、providing
conj. 假如，以…为条件
v. 供给(provide的ing形式);预备
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.
用一个终止节点结束流程的每个分支，或在分支结束时提供数据作为输出，这也是一种很好的建模方法。
4、abilities
n. 能力，才能(ability的复数形式)
He slipped a mention about my abilities into his talk.
他在谈话中巧妙地提及了一下我的才能。
5、were similar to
与…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，因为我们在过去的项目中创建的系统与目前这个系统类似，因此如果我们引用一些参考架构，我们的架构将会从中受益。
6、saved
adj. 获救的;已保存的
v. 保护(save的过去分词);救助
Gasoline, of course, must be saved in consumption.
汽油吗， 还是省着用吧。
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