1. I didn’t say anything like that at all. He is purposely______ my ideas to prove his point.
A. distorting
B. distracting
C. contradicting
D. dominating

2. Ageing can be thought of as a gradual, albeit ______, slide from summer into autumn and, with any luck, on to winter.
A. arduous
B. fantastic
C. inexorable
D. inherent

【长难句翻译】
On the whole such a conclusion can be drawn with a certain degree of confidence, but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the others with whom he is being compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possessed.