GRE填空机经题目

第一部分51道复原题

上海XDF 张俊1. ''RESIGNATION'', an English word the French novelist Christian Oster would no d oubt appreciate, presents an elegant parad ox: in one sense, it indicates a bold step, a cleaving of oneself from an attachment grown onerous; in another, it's the height of ___, an acquiescence to fate.

A. maturity

B. desperation

C. passivity

D. sham

E. fissure

2. Sylvester takes on a solemn and sagacious persona, the expression of his commitment to a deliberate conversation to a disconcerting and hypnotic pace, but this ____ could be intimidating.

A. solicitude

B. banality

C. gravitas

D. ingénue

E. lassitude

3. The mid-20th century is sometimes remembered as an era of cozy political ------, but in fact the corrid ors of power echoed then with starkly disparate voices.

A. consensus

B. variant

C. chaos

D. accord

E. arcad e

F. tranquility

4. Scientist worries if the connection between global warming and the rising of sea level continues, then this simultaneity ----- bigger changes in the und erlying dynamics of our climate.

A. presages

B. exacerbates

C. averts

D. obscures

E. portends

F. forestalls

5. The Order applies to all Federal agency whose actions may affect the status of invasive species and requires agencies to identify such actions and to the extent practicabl e and permitted by law, and since invasive species severely reduce the number of native species and even ------ their existence, the agency has determined and made public its determination that the benefits of such actions clearly outweigh the potential harm caused by invasive species;

and that all feasible and ------ measures to ------ risk of harm of the introduction of invasive

6. Mark Messina’s book The Simpl e Soybean and Your Health exudes recogniti on much less unrestrained in the description of the soy's medical efficiency than its versatility, but the author’s cautions arrests soy to be a ------.

A. placebo

B. panacea

C. solitude

D. cure-all

E. effectuality

F. efficacy

7. Even the man was reserved in his speech, he thoroughly und erstood his mother, which made him far from ----- as people usually thought.

A. sophisticated

B. simpl e

C. sententious

D. ingenuous

E. comprehensive

8. Nevertheless, the claim—advocated by many experts—that a child acts more like a

‘grammatical genius’ than an empty slate, a ‘tabula rasa’, ready to be written on and forged by experience, seems ------ to those who think of language as the zenith of the human intellect and who think of instincts as brute impulses that compel furry or feathered zombies to build a dam or up and fly south.

A. consonance

B. jarring

C. tangent

D. prehensile

E. manifest

9. Laser has been widely utilized in many industries such as Packaging Industry, CD player, sort of commonplace articles; however, the ------ of laser doesn’t mean laser can only be used in ------ ways.