gre选词填空真题
1.Although there are weeks of negotiations ahead, and perhaps tbacks and new surpris, leaders of both parties are ___ that their differences can be resolved.
A.optimistic B.perplexed C.apprehensive D.incredulous E.uncertain
解析：转折让步的简单句子。
意译：尽管未来还有数周的协商，也切有可能会有挫折和新的问题，但是双方政党领袖对于他们能够解决争端感到乐观。
答案：A
错选：不会错。
2.To compensate for the substantial decline in the availability of fossil fuels in future years, we will have to provide at least ___ alternative energy source.
A.an anticipated B.an official C.an equivalent D.a derivative
E.a redundant
解析：简单的目的和手段句子，注意at least的用法。
意译：为了对大西瓜小西瓜
未来几年化石燃料急剧减少做补偿，我们至少要找到跟减少的化石燃料同等量的代替能源。
答案：C
错选：E
3.Even though many persons in the audience jeered the star throughout the play, she ___ curtain calls.
A.refud all B.adored some C.delayed veral D.appeared for
E.balked at
解析：关键词组：curtain call 谢幕 如: to take a curtain call （上台谢幕）；另外注意这是一个转折让步，前后意义要相反。
意译：虽然很多观众在这个剧从始至终嘲笑该明星，但是她还是多次谢幕了（意思就是大部分观众非常认可她的表现，人和人怎么就这么差别大呢？）
答案：D
4.Suspicious of too powerful a president, Americans nonetheless are ___ when a president does not act decisively.
A.univocal B.impassioned C.content D.uneasy E.headstrong
解析：注意让步结构和nonetheless的用法。
意译：虽然人们怀疑总统的权力是不是太大了，但是在总统不能非常有决断力的时候，美国人民又会对总统的柔弱感到不安。
答案：D
错选：C
5.Unlike many recent interpretations of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, the recitalist’s performance was a delightfully free and introspective one; nevertheless, it was also, emingly paradoxically, quite ____.
A.appealing B.exuberant C.idiosyncratic D.unskilled E.controlled
解析：句子出现paradoxical的时候都会出现看似令人费解、貌似充满矛盾、好像前后相反的内容。
意译：不像很多最近对于贝多芬钢琴奏鸣曲的诠释，这个钢琴独奏者的表演充满了令人感到愉悦的自由和对自己内心暴露；但是，这场演奏，令人感觉有些矛盾的是，也相当的克制（或者理解为冷静）。
答案：E
错选：D
伟大的音乐需要伟大的演奏者，才能激发人的灵魂。
6.In the midst of so many evasive comments, this forthright statement, whatever its intrinsic merit, plainly stands out as ___.
A.a paradigm B.a misnomer C.a profundity D.an inaccuracy
E.an anomaly
解析：两个事物之间的关系，无外乎相同或者相反，句子里面讲的forthright statement与其他many evasive comments之间很明显是相反关系。而且题目里面问两个已经给你的事物之间的关系，以相反居多。
意译：在很多不直接的言论当中，这个非常直率的观点，我们先不管它的实际价值如何，都与前述观点很明显不一样。
答案：E
错选：A
7.Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible ___: his comic strip about Littl
e Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and quencing.
A.sincerity B.efficiency C.virtuosity D.rapidity E.sap
意译：温瑟麦克凯是一个怎样提高学习成绩
非常牛的卡通画家，他的作品充满艺术性：他的小尼莫的连环漫画体现了了不起的绘画艺术和时序性。
答案：C
错选：B
注：这里的小尼莫不是那个鱼。
8.Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of rious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for disnt often prevents ___.
A.demur B.schism C.cooperation D.compliance E.shortsightedness
意译：不开明的集权管理者很少认识到在民主管理的机构中很少出现严重冲突的原因：对于不同观点的少量容忍往往可以组织组织的分裂。
答案：B
错选：A
9.This project is the first step in a 你的名字高清壁纸
long-range plan of rearch who ___ goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype.
A.cooperative B.reasoned C.original D.ultimate E.intentional
解析：still many years off 是解题的关键。
意译：这个计划是一个长期研究的第一步，这个研究的N多年以后的终极目标是创造一个新的原型机。
答案：D
错选：C
10.Without eming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the ___ of society, the conventi美好反义词
onality of academe.
A.ethos B.idealism C.allopathy D.hemotherapy E.commonplaces
解析：拿最后的解题线索做就不会错了。
意译：并没有看起来很怪异，威廉詹姆斯看起来已经完全不是这个圈子的平常的一分子了。
答案：E
错选：B
11.If tho large publishers that respond solely to popular literary trends continue to dominate the publishing market, the initial publication of new writers will depend on the writers’ willingness to ___ popular tastes.
A.struggle against B.cater to C.assimilate D.flout E.elude
解析：要看懂large publishers和publication of new writers是一回事儿，但是似乎现实生活有所不同。
意译：如果那些只月经前后几天是安全期
关注流行文学趋势的大型出版商继续统治出版市场的话，那么新人作家的处女作发布就将完全取决于这个作家愿不愿意迎合大众口味。
答案：B
错选：D
12.Copy雏鹰起飞是第几套
right and patent laws attempt to encourage innovation by ensuring that inventors are paid for creative work, so it would be ___ if expanded protection under the laws discouraged entrepreneurial innovation by increasing fears of lawsuits.
A.desirable B.coincidental C.ironic D.natural E.nsible
解析：一个给你原因也给你结果的句子，问他们之间是什么关系~~
