GRE-19
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
基础填空
1. For a long time, most doctors maintained that taking massive dos of vitamins was relatively harmless; now however, some are warning that excessive dosages can be ______.
A. healthy
B. innocuous
C. wasteful
D. toxic
E. inane
F. venomous
2. In Jamaica Kincaid"s novel Lucy, the West Indian heroine ______ her employers" world, critically examining its assumptions and values.
hdtvA. idealizes
B. avoids
C. beautifies
D. scrutinizes
E. excludes
F. overlooks
3. The frequent name changes that the country has undergone ______ the political turbulence that has attended its recent history.
A. argue against
B. contrast with
C. testify to
D. jeopardize
E. flag
F. attest
4. Brachiopods, clamlike bivalves of prehistoric times, were one of the most ______ forms of life on the Earth: more than 30,000 species have been ______ from fossil records.
A. ornate
B. multifarious伦敦奥运会歌曲
C. anachronistic
D. subtracted
E. catalogued
F. extrapolated
5. Some **puter games are so elaborately contrived and require such ______ strategies that only the most ______ player can master them.
A. nefarious
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B. byzantine
C. facile
D. compulsive
E. adroit
F. slipshod
6. Commerce on the remote island was conducted exclusively by ______, exchanging goods for goods.
A. fidelity
B. loan
C. faith
D. patronage
E. barter
F. swapping
7. The existence of environmental contamination is no longer a point of ______; government, industry, and the public agree that it is a rious problem.
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A. concern
B. cooperation
C. urgency
D. exigency
E. dispute
F. disnsion
8. In rock climbing, survival depends as much on ______, the ability to perceive without conscious reasoning, as on physical strength.
A. autonomy
B. volition
C. intuition
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E. receptivity
F. instinct
9. **puter labs to ______ classroom instruction is the most effective when the curriculum ______ lab exercis and classroom teaching in a coordinated manner.
A. remedy
B. supplement
C. disparage
D. compromis
E. integrates
F. curtails
10. Many ______ of the style of painting exemplified by Marcel Duchamp"s work focud on Duchamp"s Nude Descending a Stairca as the ______ of what they detested about modern art.
A. proponents
B. critics
C. debunkers
D. realization
E. epitome
F. reversal
11. Colonial American playwright Mercy Otis Warren was known for her political ______: her keen judgment and insight were widely acknowledged.
A. partisanship
B. intemperance
C. acumen
D. irreverence
E. immoderation
F. shrewdness
12. Johnson"s writing is considered ______ and ______ becau it is filled with obscure references and baffling digressions.
A. deceiving
B. arcane
C. lucid
D. ingenuous
E. esoteric
F. definitive
just a friend13. Becau the congresswoman has been so openhanded with many of her constituents, it is difficult to reconcile this ______ with her private ______.
A. solicitousness
B. magnanimity
C. insolence
D. virtue
E. pettiness
F. inattention
14. As a urchins are becoming scarcer, divers are ______ to more dangerous depths t
o retrieve them, ______ the potential for diving injuries.
A. returning
B. descending
C. climbing
D. lesning
E. increasing
F. belying
15. Anne mentioned John"s habitual boasting about his ward robe as an example of his ______ ways.
A. erratic
B. egotistical
C. politic
D. tactful
E. inconspicuous
F. complacent
fortune是什么意思16. His peers respected him becau he was both ______ and ______: steadfast in his beliefs and tactful in his negotiations.
A. resourceful
B. tenacious
C. outspoken
D. indiscriminate
E. diplomatic
F. demonstrative
17. Considering that many women had little control over their own lives in medieval England, Margery Kempe"s fifteenth-century autobiography demonstrates a remarkable degree of ______.
A. concration
B. rationalism
C. autonomy
D. effacementkeep bleeding
E. sanctification
F. lf-government
18. Following the decree banning ______ acts, suspected ______ could be forcibly detained without the filing of formal charges.
A. apolitical
B. ditious
C. supportive
D. conformists
E. insurrectionists
F. partisans
19. By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one-man show, John Leguizamo provides a ______ to the theater"s tendency to offer a limited range of roles to Latino actors.
A. corrective
B. harbinger
C. corollary
D. stimulus
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