[外语类试卷]GRE(VERBAL)强化填空模拟试卷15及答案与解析.doc
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1、GRE( VERBAL)强化填空模拟试卷 15及答案与解析 SECTION 1 Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as
2、a whole. 1 Agronomists are increasingly worried about “desertification,” the phenomenon that is turning many of the worlds (i)_ fields and pastures into (ii)_ wastelands, unable to support the people living on them. ( A) fertilebarren ( B) productiveblooming ( C) aridthriving ( D) poorestmarginal (
3、E) largestsaturated 2 Old beliefs die hard: even when jobs became (i)_, the long-standing fear that unemployment could return at a moments notice (ii)_. ( A) vacant perished ( B) easierchanged ( C) plentifulpersisted ( D) protectedsubsided ( E) availablereceded 3 Intellectual (i)_ and flight from bo
4、redom have caused him to rush pell-mell into situations that less (ii)_ spirits might hesitate to approach. ( A) restlessnessadventurous ( B) agitationpassive ( C) resiliencequiescent ( D) tranquilityversatile ( E) curiositylethargic 4 Science advances in (i)_ spiral in that each new conceptual sche
5、me (ii)_ that phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations. ( A) a discontinuousdecries ( B) a repetitivevitiates ( C) a wideningembraces ( D) an anomalous.captures ( E) an explosive.questions 5 Politeness is not a (i)_ attribute of human behavior, but rather a central virt
6、ue, one whose very existence is increasingly being (ii)_ by the faddish requirement to “speak ones mind.” ( A) superficialthreatened ( B) pervasiveundercut ( C) worthlessforestalled ( D) preciousrepudiated ( E) trivialaffected 6 The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for, hanging in a darke
7、ned recess of the chapel, it was _ by the perspective. ( A) improved ( B) aggrandized ( C) embellished ( D) jeopardized ( E) diminished 7 Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain _. ( A) arbitrary
8、( B) estimable ( C) orthodox ( D) unspoken ( E) equivocal 8 Because it is (i)_ to (ii)_ all the business costs related to employee discontent, an accurate estimate of the magnitude of these costs is not easily calculated. ( A) difficultmeasure ( B) impossiblejustify ( C) improperoverlook ( D) useles
9、sdiscover ( E) necessarypinpoint 9 Consider the universal cannibalism of the sea, all of whose creatures _ one another. ( A) hide from ( B) ferret out ( C) prey on ( D) glide among ( E) compete against 10 How could words, confined as they individually are to certain (i)_ meanings specified in a dict
10、ionary, eventually come, when combined in groups, to create obscurity and actually to prevent thought from being (ii)_? ( A) indefinitearticulated ( B) conventionalconceivable ( C) unlikelyclassified ( D) archaicexpressed ( E) precisecommunicable 11 Even though they tended to be (i)_ strangers, fift
11、eenth-century Europeans did not automatically associate (ii)_ and danger. ( A) trusting ofdiversity ( B) haughty withnonconformity ( C) interested inenmity ( D) antagonistic torudeness ( E) hostile toforeignness 12 The modern age is a permissive one in which things can be said explicitly, but the ol
12、d tradition of _ dies hard. ( A) garrulousness ( B) exaggeration ( C) excoriation ( D) bombast ( E) euphemism 13 Although many findings of the Soviet and United States probes of Venus were complementary, the two sets of atmospheric results clearly could not be (i)_ without a major change of data or
13、(ii)_. ( A) obtainedexperimentation ( B) completedposition ( C) matchedimplementation ( D) reconciledinterpretation ( E) producedfalsification 14 While it is assumed that the mechanization of work has a (i)_ effect on the lives of workers, there is evidence available to suggest that, on the contrary
14、, mechanization has served to (ii)_ some of the traditional roles of women. ( A) salutary.improve ( B) dramaticundermine ( C) benignrevise ( D) debilitatingweaken ( E) revolutionaryreinforce 15 Although economists have traditionally considered the district to be solely an agricultural one, the _ of
15、the inhabitants occupations makes such a classification obsolete. ( A) productivity ( B) diversity ( C) predictability ( D) profitability ( E) stability 16 The author of this book (i)_ overlooks or minimizes some of the problems and shortcomings in otherwise highly successful foreign industries in o
16、rder to (ii)_ the points on which they excel and on which we might try to emulate them. ( A) accidentally.exaggerate ( B) purposely.emphasize ( C) occasionally.counterbalance ( D) intentionally.confuse ( E) cleverlycompound 17 Crosbys colleagues have never learned, at least not in time to avoid emba
17、rrassing themselves, that her occasional (i)_ air of befuddlement (ii)_ a display of her formidable intelligence. ( A) genuine.dominates ( B) alert.contradicts ( C) acute.precludes ( D) bogus.presages ( E) painstaking.succeeds 18 To ensure the development and exploitation of a new technology, there
18、must be a constant _ of several nevertheless distinct activities. ( A) interplay ( B) implementation ( C) comprehending ( D) improvement ( E) exploration 19 Some customs travel well; often, however, behavior that is considered the epitome of _ at home is perceived as impossibly rude or, at the least
19、, harmlessly bizarre abroad. ( A) novelty ( B) eccentricity ( C) urbanity ( D) coarseness ( E) tolerance 20 The (i)_ of the early Greek philosophers attempts to explain the operations of the cosmos led certain later thinkers to inquire into the (ii)_ of human reason. ( A) difficulty.origin ( B) mean
20、ingsupremacy ( C) complexityreality ( D) equivocationssubtlety ( E) failureseffi cacy 21 Ever prey to vagrant impulses that impelled him to (i)_ his talents on a host of unworthy projects, his very (ii)_ nonetheless enhanced his reputation, for the sheer energy of his extravagance dazzled observers.
21、 ( A) undermineenthusiasm ( B) isolateselectiveness ( C) displayaffability ( D) squanderdissipation ( E) implicategenius GRE( VERBAL)强化填空模拟试卷 15答案与解析 SECTION 1 Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five
22、lettered or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 空格 (ii): - 方程等号:第二个逗号,同义重复。 - 强词和对应:逗号后面说,这些荒地不能养活土地上的人,所以空格 (ii)和unable to support the people取同,体现土地无法养活人类,填入一个负向词。barren贫瘠的, blooming繁荣的, thriving繁荣的,
23、marginal贫瘠的, saturated饱和的,选项 A和 D合适。 空格 (i): - 方程等号: turninginto 将 转变为 ,前后状态取反。 - 强词和对应:空格 (ii)和空格 (i)根据 tuminginto 取反,所以空格 (i)应该表示土地 “肥沃的 ”。 fertile肥沃的 (对 ), productive多产的 (对 ), arid干旱的 (错 ), poorest最贫乏的 (错 ), largest最大的 (对 )。综合空格 (i),答案选 A。 【知识模块】 填空 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 空格 (ii): - 方程等号:冒号,同义重复。 - 强词
24、和对应:冒号前说老的观念根深蒂固, the long-standing fear和 old beliefs同义重复,空格 (ii)和 die hard根据冒号取同,体现担忧 “根深蒂固 ”。 perish死亡, change改变, persist一直存在, subside减弱, recede减弱。选项 C合适。 空格 (i): - 方程等号: even即使,反义重复 。 - 强词和对应:后文说担忧失业立刻就会复发,根据 even取反,因此空格 (i)体现“没有失业 ”,即 “有 ”工作机会。 vacant空缺的 (错 ), easier更简单的 (对 ), plentiful充足的 (对 )
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