GRE填空进阶练习

GRE

填空进阶练习

第一组

1.

Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____

disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.

(A) restriction

(B) license

(C) similarity

(D) rigidity

(E) imperative

2.

A human being is quite _____ creature, for the gloss of rationality that covers his or her fears

and _____

is thin and often easily breached.

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A a logical D problems

B a frail

E insecurity

C a valiant F morality

3.

Heavily

perfumed

white

flowers,

such

as

gardenias,

were

favorites

with

collectors

in

the

eighteenth century, when ______ was valued much more highly than it is today.

(A) scent

(B) fragrance

(C) beauty

(D) elegance

(E) color

(F) variety

4.

The proponents of recombinant DNA research have decided to ______ federal regulation of

their work; they hope that by making this compromise they can forestall proposed state and

local controls that might be even stiffer.

(A) protest

(B) institute

(C) deny

(D) encourage

(E) disregard

5.

The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the

years, has become a very strict form, a literary _____ that permits very little _____.

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A genre

D deviation

B feature E rigidity

C achievement F grandiloquence

6.

Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible _____: his comic strip about Little

Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.

(A) sincerity

(B) efficiency

(C) virtuosity

(D) rapid

(E) energy

7.

Some

biologists

argue

that

each

specifically

human

trait

must

have

arisen

gradually

and

erratically, and that it is therefore difficult to isolate definite _____ in the evolution of species.

(A) fluctuations

(B) generations

(C) predispositions

(D) milestones

(E) manifestations

8.

The losing animal in a struggle saves itself from destruction by an act of ______, an act usually

recognized and ______ by the winner.

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A bluffing

D condemned

B anger

E duplicated

C submission F accepted

9.

Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of

serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance

for dissent often prevents _____.

(A) demur

(B) schism

(C) cooperation

(D) compliance

(E) shortsightedness

10.

The old man could not have been accused of______ his affection; his conduct toward the child

betrayed his______her.

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A promising D adoration of

B stinting E sympathy for

C lavishing F tolerance of

11.

Although

Mount

Saint

Helens

has

been

more______

during

the

last

4,500 years

than

any

other

volcano

in

the

coterminous

United

States,

its

long

dormancy

before

its

recent

eruption______ its violent nature.

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A awe-inspiring D confirmed

B explosive

E suggested

C gaseous

F belied

12.

Sponsors of the bill were ______ because there was no opposition to it within the legislature

until after the measure had been signed into law.

(A) unreliable

(B) well- intentioned

(C) persistent

(D) relieved

(E) detained

13.

She writes across generational lines, making the past so _____ that our belief that the present

is the true locus of experience is undermined

(A) runic

(B) distant

(C) vivid

(D) mysterious

(E) mundane

14.

Given her previously expressed interest and the ambitious tone of her recent speeches, the

senator’s attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running for a second

term is _____.

(A) laudable

(B) sound

(C) authentic

(D) futile

(E) sincere

15.

It is true that the seeds of some plants have ______ after two hundred years of dormancy,

but reports that viable seeds have been found in ancient tombs such as the pyramids are

entirely______.

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A germinated

D empirical

B precipitated

E unfounded

C endured

F substantiated

16.

The functions of the hands, eyes, and brain are so ______ that using the hands during early

childhood helps to promote the child's entire _______ development.

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A intertwined

D perceptual

B individualized E adolescent

C enigmatic

F social

17.

Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged

that the ______ design is no longer______.

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A embellished

D discernible

B initial

E applicable

C appropriate

F attractive

18.

The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it

may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society

during the current decade is ______critical.

(A) perennially

(B) disturbingly

(C) uniquely

(D) archetypically

(E) captiously

19.

Roman historians who study the period 30 B.C. to A.D. 180 can ______ the “Augustan peace”

only by failing to recognize that this peace in many respects resembled that of death.

(A) decry

(B) applaud

(C) ridicule

(D) demand

(E) disprove

20.

Some activists believe that because the health-care system has become increasingly______

to those it serves, individuals must ______ bureaucratic impediments in order to develop and

promote new therapies.

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A unresponsive

D forsake

B sensitized

E supplement

C attuned

F circumvent

21.

The nature of social history and lyric poetry are _____, social history always recounting the

_____ and lyric poetry speaking for unchanging human nature, that timeless essence beyond

fashion and economics.

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A antithetical

D evanescent

B indistinguishable

E unnoticed

C interdependent

F unalterable

22.

To avoid annihilation by parasites, some caterpillars are able to _____ periods of active growth

by pre-maturely entering a dormant state, which is characterized by the _____of feeding.

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A mediate

D continuation

B foster

E suspension

C curtail

F stimulation

23.

To test the ______ of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply investigate

the extent to which terms from the one may, without forcing, be ______ the other.

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A universality

D utilized by

B decorum

E superseded by

C efficacy

F confused with

24.

Social tensions among adult factions can be ______ by politics, but adolescents and children

have no such ______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.

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A intensified

D attitude

B frustrated

E mechanism

C adjusted

F justification

25.

Because

medieval

women’s

public

participation

in

spiritual

life

was

not

welcomed

by

the

male

establishment,

a

compensating

______

religious

writings,

inoffensive to the members of the establishment because of its______, became important for

many women.

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A involvement with

D profundity

B dissatisfaction with

E privacy

C attention to

F popularity

26.

In order to ______ her theory that the reactions are ______, the scientist conducted many

experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of

the second.

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A comprehend

D different

B evaluate.

E constant

C support

F problematic

27.

Unlike many recent interpretations of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, the recitalist’s performance

was

a

delightfully

free

and

introspective

one;

nevertheless,

it

was

also,

seemingly

paradoxically, quite _____.

(A) appealing

(B) exuberant

(C) idiosyncratic

(D) unskilled

(E) controlled

28.

Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an ______fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than

a______ canary, safe and secure in its cage.

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A angry

D well- fed

B imperious E lethargic

C unfettered F content

29.

The popularity of pseudoscience and quack medicines in the nineteenth century suggests that

people were very _____, but the gullibility of the public today makes citizens of yesterday look

like hard-nosed _____.

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A sophisticated D pragmatists

B rational

E idealists

C credulous

F skeptics

30.

Social

scientists

have

established

fairly

clear-cut

______

that

describe

the

appropriate

behavior

of

children

and

adults,

but

there

seems

to

be

______

about

what

constitutes

appropriate behavior for adolescents.

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A functions

D confusion

B estimates

E rigidity

C norms

F indirectness

31.

Although the mental process that creates a fresh and original poem or drama is doubtless

_____ that which originates and elaborates scientific discoveries, there is clearly a discernible

difference between the creators.

(A) peripheral to

(B) contiguous with

(C) opposed to

(D) analogous to

(E) inconsistent with

32.

Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that

the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, .

(A) arbitrary

(B) superfluous

(C) intriguing

(D) flexible

(E) constant

33.

Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the seafloor of the Bering Shelf a

devastated

appearance,

these

activities

seem

to

be

actually______to

the

area,

______its

productivity.

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A beneficial D encumbering

B detrimental E redirecting

C superfluous F enhancing

34.

Although some of her fellow scientists _____ the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others

found

innovative,

unanimous

praise

greeted

her

experimental

results:

at

once

pioneering

and

_____.

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A decried

D unexceptionable

B complimented E mundane

C welcomed

F inconclusive

35.

Nature’s energy efficiency often______human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies

produce,

the

amount

of

heat

is

negligible;

only

recently

have

humans

developed

chemical

lightproducing systems whose efficiency______ the firefly’s system.

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A outstrips

D stimulates

B inhibits

E rivals

C determines F reproduce