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单选题
A. tiny
B. secondary
C. minimal
D. minimum
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】a tiny part of sth．是指“非常微笑的一部分”，在这里指人类只仅仅利用了他们脑力潜力的很小很小的一部分。secondary指“次要的”。minimal和minimum都指“最小值”，意思与本文不符。
单选题
A. daily
B. routine
C. commonplace
D. frequent
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】routine or tedious tasks是指“常规性的，每天如此的，让人觉得乏味的工作或是任务”。daily每天的，日常的，commonplace普通的，frequent经常的，这3个词都没有表达出重复不便，让人生厌的意思。