GRE试题(一)
SECTION 1
Time - 30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each ntence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating thatsomething has been omitted. Beneath the ntence are five lettered words or ts of words. Choo the word or t of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the ntence as a whole.
1. Nonviolent demonstrations often create such ten- sions that a community that has constantly refud to ------- its injustices is forced to correct them: the injustices can no longer be -------.
(A) acknowledge..ignored
(B) decrea..verified
(C) tolerate..accepted
(D) liminated
(E) explain..discusd
2. Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen's novels has oscillated between ------- and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than did most of her literary -------.
(A) dismissal..admirers
(B) adoration. .contemporaries
(C) aders
(D) indifference..followers
(E) approbation..precursors
父亲给儿子的一封信3. There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems who study has been ------- to the extent that they no longer ------- ecologists.
(A) perfected..hinder
(B) exhausted..interest
(C) quire
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(D) hallenge
(E) delayed..benefit
4. Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National lnstitutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct dias for which ------- treatments are unsatisfactory.
(A)similar
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(C)dangerous
(D) uncommon
(E) alternative
5. It was her view that the country's problems had been ------- by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
(A)foreen
(B)attacked
(C)ascertained
(D) exacerbated
(E) analyzed
6. Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible -------: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and quencing.
(A)sincerity
(B)efficiency
(C)virtuosity
(D) rapidity
(E) energy
7. The actual ------- of Wilson's position was always ------- by his refusal to compromi after having initially agreed to negotiate a ttlement.
(A) outcome..foreshadowed
(B) hanced
(C) rigidity..betrayed
(D) uncertainty..alleviated
(E) cowardice..highlighted
Directions: In each of the foiiowing questions, a related pair of words or phras is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phras. Select the lettered pair that best express a relationship similar to that expresd in the original pair.
8. SEDATTVE : DROWSlNESS ::
(A) epidemic : contagiousness
(B) vaccine : virus
(C) laxative : drug
(D) anestheiic : numbness
地下溶洞(E) therapy : psychosis
9.LAWYER:COURTROOM::
(A) participant : team
(B) commuter : train
(C) gladiator : arena
(D) nator : caucus
(E) patient : ward
10. CURIOSITY : KNOW ::
(A) temptation : conquer
(B) starvation : eat
(C) wanderlust : travel
(D) humor : laugh
(E) survival : live
11. FRUGAL : MISERLY ::
(A) confident : arrogant
(B) courageouss : pugnacious
(C) famous : aggressive
(D) rash : foolhardy 现代足球起源于
(E) quiet : timid
12. ANTIDOTE : POISON ::
(A) cure : recovery
(B) narcotic : sleep
(C) stimulant : relap
(D) tonic : lethargy
(E) resuscitation : breathing
13. STYGIAN.: DARK ::
(A) abysmal : low
(B) cogent : contentious
(C) fortuitous.: accidental
(D) reckless : threatening
(E) cataclysmic : doomed
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14. WORSHIP : SACRIFICE ::
(A) generation : pyre
(B) burial : mortuary
(C) weapon : centurion
红烧香菇(D) massacre : invasion
(E) prediction : augury
大学生应征入伍15. EVANESCENT : l)ISAPPEAR :
(A) tlansparent : penetrate
(B) onerous : struggle
(C) feckless : succeed
(D) illusory : exist
(E) pliant : yield
16. UPBRAlD : REPROACH ::
(A) dote : like
(B) lal: : stray
(C) vex : plea
(D) earn : desire
(E) recast : explain
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions bad on its content. After reading a passage, choo the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
lt has been known for many decades that the appearance of sunspots is roughly periodic, with an average cycle of eleven years. Moreover, the incidence of solar flares and the flux of solar cosmic rays, ultraviolet radiation, and x-radiation all vary directly with the sunspot (5) cycle. But after more than a century of investigation. the relation of the and other ph
enomena, known collectively as the solar-activity cycle, to terrescrial weather and climate remains unclear. For example. the sunspot cycle and the allied rnagnetic-polarity cycle have been (10) linked to periodicities discerned in records of such variables as rainhll. temperature, and winds. lnvariably, however, the relation is weak. and commonly ofdubious statistical significance.
