GRE模拟题2018年(3)
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
基础填空
1. The works of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino are ______: they include sculpture, painting, printmaking, and architecture.
A. distorted
B. whimsical
C. eclectic
D. instructive
E. varied
F. capricious
2. Some actors **plained that the director, rather than treating them as his ______, dominated them and expected them to be ______.
A. equals
B. rivals
C. protégé
D. recalcitrant
E. remorful
F. subrvient
3. The Prime Minster handled the crisis calmly and dispassionately, thereby enhancing his reputation for being ______.
A. conciliatory
B. prejudiced
C. compod
D. imperturbable
E. cynical
F. partisan
4. Writing in a straightforward as oppod to ______ style, the author produced ______ argument that shed new light on a controversial topic.
A. a candid
B. a austere
C. a convoluted
D. a nonnsical
E. a lucid
F. a poignant
5. The scientist ______ the value of an interdisciplinary approach to environment studies, arguing such an approach was of paramount importance in promoting environmental literacy among students.
A. ignored
B. disparaged
C. touted
D. extolled
E. perturbed
F. imploded
6. In retrospect the presidency of Dwight Einhower is perceived as ______ period becau it was relatively free of domestic turmoil.
A. a tranquil
B. an intractable
C. a dire
D. an intimidating
E. a vanquished
F. a rene
7. The two astronomers who simultaneously discovered Comet Hale-Bopp were ______: individuals pursuing astronomy as an interest, not as a profession.
A. rearchers
B. amateurs
C. skeptics
D. dilettantes
E. pioneers
F. experimenters
8. The dictator ______ democracy as the ______ of ordinary citizens in government affairs.
A. lauded
B. scorned
C. endord
D. abnce
E. meddling
F. duty
9. The two friends occasionally indulged in ______, as they both enjoyed a bout of good-natured teasing.
A. banter
B. grandiloquence
C. badinage
D. controversy
E. blather
F. bombast
10. Never an ______, but tending instead to e both sides of an issue, the nator was
considered ______ by tho who did not know her well.
A. absolutist
B. ideologue
C. elitist
D. arrogant
E. adamant
F. indecisive
11. The pasngers experienced an intimacy not uncommon among vacationers spending days together, an intimacy more often due to ______ than to **munity of taste.
A. proximity
B. compatibility
C. vicinity
D. profusion
E. recalcitrance
F. affluence
12. Chairperson and CEO Andrea Jung has revitalized **pany, considered ______ in recent years, to one who products now attract millions of consumers worldwide.
A. avant-grade
B. moribund
C. auspicious
D. dying
E. propitious
F. spurious
13. Jessica was ______ by Jon"s angry outburst: she literally did not know what to say, think, or do.
A. dinchanted
B. mollified
C. assuaged
D. beguiled
E. nonplusd
F. confounded
14. In Dorothy West"s novel The Living Is Easy, the main character feels ______ by her father"s authority, renting his attempts to check her ______.
A. favored
B. revived
C. limited
D. anger
E. patience
F. independence
15. Believing that the problem could be solved if enough information was garnered, the scientist vowed to ______ her rearch as long as some ______ of obtaining additional data existed.
A. dispen with
B. terminate
C. pervere in
D. likelihood
E. doubtfulness
F. pretext
16. Once the animal"s usual sources of nourishment have been exhausted, acorns are its only means of ______.
A. resuscitation
B. distraction
C. subsistence
D. survival
E. resurgence
F. camouflage
17. Although many of the students had found the assignment ______, **pleted it with ea.
A. frivolous
B. laborious
C. gratifying
D. arduous
E. agreeable
F. timely
18. Juan is ______ examining his own feelings and motives: he cannot tolerate ______.
A. accustomed to
B. aver to
C. mindful of
D. adulation
E. introspection
F. spontaneity
19. The new governor attempted to win the public"s sympathy by ______ himlf as the ______ inheritor of his predecessor"s fiscal mismanagement.
A. casting
B. applauding
C. commending
D. grateful
E. complicit
F. hapless
20. Rebecca knew that to finish her project she must **e her tendency toward ______ and learn to make up her mind.
A. indecision
B. independence
C. buoyancy
D. irresolution
E. experti
F. autonomy
