GRE模拟题2018年(8)
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
基础填空
1. Common garlic has ______ properties; during the First World War British medics saved thousands of lives by wrapping wounds with garlic-soaked bandages.
A. curative
B. flavoring
C. inferior
D. therapeutic
E. infamous
F. spicy
2. In her poems, Alice Walker retrieves and ______ parts of Black culture that some have been all too quick to ______ the past as fossilized artifacts.
A. revitalizes
B. diffus
C. refracts
D. salvage from
E. consign to
F. defer to
3. The modest acceptance speech of the Academy Award-winning actress revealed a ______ that contrasted with her uninhibited screen performances.
A. discretion
B. sullenness
C. flamboyance
D. rerve
E. nonchalance
F. disregard
4. Becau howler monkeys **e out of the trees in their arboreal habitat, the continued well-being of the rain forest is ______ to their survival.
A. marginal
B. tangential
C. indispensable
D. imperative
E. expeditious
F. baneful
5. Doug was both ______ and ______; he possd penetrating acuity and discernment and was also extremely humble.
A. perspicacious
B. obtu
C. debauched
D. unassuming
E. supercilious
F. penitent
6. The Mona Lisa, shipped in a private cabin and received by important dignitaries, was tr
eated more like ______ than a painting upon its arrival in the United States.
A. a bohemian
B. a maverick
C. a potentate
D. an ascetic
E. a monarch
F. an interloper
7. Despite its patent ______, this belief has become so ______ that no amount of rational argument will suffice to eradicate it.
A. implausibility
B. credibility
C. novelty
D. outmoded
E. entrenched
F. inconquential
8. The charlatan"s emingly frank and open demeanor was actually a ______ means of enlisting his patient"s confidence.
A. disingenuous
B. debilitating
C. uncandid
D. cathartic
E. deleterious
F. diminutive
9. Scientific discoveries are often thought of as the result of ______ effort, but many discoveries have, in fact, arin from ______ or a mistake.
A. incidental
B. systematic
C. collaborative
D. an accident
E. a method
F. a mishap
10. Nations that share a border are, by definition, ______.
A. allied
B. autonomous
C. contiguous
D. juxtapod
E. sovereign
F. pluralistic
11. Much of this author"s work, unfortunately, is ______ with chapter often immediately following a sublime one.
A. predictable
B. uneven
C. enthralling
D. an eloquent
E. a mediocre
F. an intelligible
12. In young children, some brain cells have a ______ that enables them to take over the functions of damaged or missing brain cells.
A. detrimental
B. reminiscence
C. perniciousness
D. whimsy
E. plasticity
F. resilience
13. "Less government spending" is ______ of this political party, a belief shared by most
party members.
A. an acronym
B. an impas
C. a tenet
D. a credo
E. a prospectus
F. a plight
14. Unable to discover how the fire started, the inspectors filed a tentative report stating that the cau was ______.
A. noteworthy
B. definitive
C. fundamental
D. unambiguous
E. indeterminate
F. inconclusive
15. The celebrants at the ______ party for Cinco De Mayo were understandably ______ by the spectacle of the mariachi bands and the colorful of the children.
A. mundane
B. somber
C. lavish
D. dazzled
E. jaded
F. stymied
16. "Hawaii" refers both to the group of islands known as the Hawaiian islands and to the largest island in that ______.
A. flora
B. sierra
C. archipelago
D. flotilla
E. savanna
F. constellation
17. Given the exponential growth of scientific knowledge, medicine is far less ______ uns
ubstantiated fads than it ud to be; its record of folly, however, remains an undeniable ______.
A. vulnerable to
B. suspicious of
C. aver to
D. embarrassment
E. felicity
F. impossibility
18. The aspiring writer, who remained ______ even after being rejected by veral major publishers, felt certain of achieving literary ______.
A. undaunted
B. disgruntled
C. obquious
D. abament
E. neglect
F. celebrity
19. Fred often ud ______ to achieve his professional goals, even though such artful subterfuge alienated his colleagues.
A. chicanery
B. wile
C. connsus
D. disputation
E. disagreement
F. asnt
20. Years of ______ lifting of heavy furniture had left him too ______ to be able to stand erect for long periods of time.
