gre选词填空真题

gre选词填空真题
1.Although there are weeks of negotiations ahead, and perhaps setbacks and new surprises, leaders of both parties are ___ that their differences can be resolved.
A.optimistic
B.perplexed
C.apprehensive
D.incredulous
E.uncertain
解析：转折让步的简单句子。

意译：尽管未来还有数周的协商，也切有可能会有挫折和新的问题，但是双方政党领袖对于他们能够解决争端感到乐观。

答案：A
错选：不会错。

2.To compen sat e for the substantial decline in the availability of fossil fuels in future years, we will have to provide at least ___ alternative energy source. A.an anticipated B.an official C.an equivalent D.a derivative
E.a redundant
解析：简单的目的和手段句子，注意at least的用法。

意译：为了对未来几年化石燃料急剧减少做补偿，我们至少要找到跟减少的化石燃料同等量的代替能源。

答案：C
错选：E
3.Even though many persons in the audience jeered the star throughout the play, she ___ curtain calls.
A.refused all
B.adored some
C.delayed several
D.appeared for
E.balked at
解析：关键词组：curtain call 谢幕如: to take a curtain call （上台谢幕）；另外注意这是一个转折让步，前后意义要相反。

意译：虽然很多观众在这个剧从始至终嘲笑该明星，但是她还是多次谢幕了（意思就是大部分观众非常认可她的表现，人和人怎么就这么差别大呢？）
答案：D
4.Suspicious of too powerful a president, Americans nonetheless are ___ when a president does not act decisively.
A.univocal
B.impassioned
C.content
D.uneasy
E.headstrong
解析：注意让步结构和nonetheless的用法。

意译：虽然人们怀疑总统的权力是不是太大了，但是在总统不能非常有决断力的时候，美国人民又会对总统的柔弱感到不安。

答案：D
错选：C
5.Unlike many recent interpretations of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, the recitalist’s performance was a delightfully free and introspective one; nevertheless, it was also, seemingly paradoxically, quite ____.
A.appealing
B.exuberant
C.idiosyncratic
D.unskilled
E.controlled
解析：句子出现paradoxical的时候都会出现看似令人费解、貌似充满矛盾、好像前后相反的内容。

意译：不像很多最近对于贝多芬钢琴奏鸣曲的诠释，这个钢琴独奏者的表演充满了令人感到愉悦的自由和对自己内心暴露；但是，这场演奏，令人感觉有些矛盾的是，也相当的克制（或者理解为冷静）。

答案：E
错选：D
伟大的音乐需要伟大的演奏者，才能激发人的灵魂。

6.In the midst of so many evasive comments, this forthright statement, whatever its intrinsic merit, plainly stands out as ___.
A.a paradigm
B.a misnomer
C.a profundity
D.an inaccuracy
E.an anomaly
解析：两个事物之间的关系，无外乎相同或者相反，句子里面讲的forthright statement与其他many evasive comments之间很明显是相反关系。

而且题目里面问两个已经给你的事物之间的关系，以相反居多。

意译：在很多不直接的言论当中，这个非常直率的观点，我们先不管它的实际价值如何，都与前述观点很明显不一样。

答案：E
错选：A
7.Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible ___: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.
A.sincerity
B.efficiency
C.virtuosity
D.rapidity
E.sap
意译：温瑟麦克凯是一个非常牛的卡通画家，他的作品充满艺术性：他的小尼莫的连环漫画体现了了不起的绘画艺术和时序性。

答案：C
错选：B
注：这里的小尼莫不是那个鱼。

8.Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent often prevents ___.
A.demur
B.schism
C.cooperation
pliance
E.shortsightedness
意译：不开明的集权管理者很少认识到在民主管理的机构中很少出现严重冲突的原因：对于不同观点的少量容忍往往可以组织组织的分裂。

答案：B
错选：A
9.This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose ___ goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype.
A.cooperative
B.reasoned
C.original
D.ultimate
E.intentional
解析：still many years off 是解题的关键。

意译：这个计划是一个长期研究的第一步，这个研究的N多年以后的终极目标是创造一个新的原型机。

答案：D
错选：C
10.Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the ___ of society, the conventionality of academe.
A.ethos
B.idealism
C.allopathy
D.hemotherapy
monplaces
解析：拿最后的解题线索做就不会错了。

意译：并没有看起来很怪异，威廉詹姆斯看起来已经完全不是这个圈子的平常的一分子了。

答案：E
错选：B
11.If those large publishers that respond solely to popular literary trends continue to dominate the publishing market, the initial publication of new writers will depend on the writers’ willingness to ___ popular tastes.
A.struggle against
B.cater to
C.assimilate
D.flout
E.elude
解析：要看懂large publishers和publication of new writers是一回事儿，但是似乎现实生活有所不同。

意译：如果那些只关注流行文学趋势的大型出版商继续统治出版市场的话，那么新人作家的处女作发布就将完全取决于这个作家愿不愿意迎合大众口味。

答案：B
错选：D
12.Copyright and patent laws attempt to encourage innovation by ensuring that inventors are paid for creative work, so it would be ___ if expanded protection under these laws discouraged entrepreneurial innovation by increasing fears of lawsuits.
A.desirable
B.coincidental
C.ironic
D.natural
E.sensible
解析：一个给你原因也给你结果的句子，问他们之间是什么关系~~
意译：版权和专利法通过确保发明者能够因为他们的创新想法拿到钱从而鼓励创新，所以如果在这些法律之下把版权保护扩大化进而使得企业创新由于害怕诉讼而得不到发展将会是非常有讽刺意味的。

答案：C
错选：B
13.Often the difficulties of growing up in the public eye cause child prodigies to ___ the world of achievement before reaching adulthood: happily, they sometimes later return to competition and succeed brilliantly.
A.ridicule
B.conquer
C.retire from
D.antagonize
E.scrutinize
解析：later return：后来回来了，那么上文会说他们离开了。

意译：在很多情况下，由于在公众的目光中成长给神童们带来困难，所以神童在成年之前对这种所谓成就的世界往往感到厌倦而不会（或者不屑于）参与竞争：令人高兴的是，他们有时候还是能后来回到这些竞争当中，并且赢得很光彩。

答案：C
错选：D
14.He was widely regarded as a ____ man because he revealed daily his distrust of human nature and human motives.
A.disrespectful
B.cynical
C.confused
D.misinformed
E.fanatical
解析：简单的因果关系句子。

意译：因为他每天都把对人类的本性和人类行为东西的不相信挂在嘴边，所以被人认为是一个犬儒的人。

答案：B
错选：D
15.Lizzie was a brave woman who could dare to incur a great danger for an adequate ___.
A.risk
bat
C.object
D.event
E.encounter
解析：其实也是一个因果关系的句子，但是特别容易错。

重点在于怎么解释brave 这个词。

意译：栗子是一个勇敢的女性，她能敢于为了一个足够的目标招致巨大的风险。

答案：C
错选：A、D
16.The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ___ such illnesses.
A.disguise
B.impede
C.constrain
D.precipitate
E.consummate
解析：并列关系，后面的空格动作与前面的动词意义一致。

意译：这个新的生物学心理治疗方法并不否认心理因素在精神疾病中的重要作用，而是假设这些因素可能在已经存在的生理学条件上起到催化剂的作用，也即会促使这些疾病加速发生。

答案：D
错选：B、C
17.James had idolized the professor so much for so long that even after lunching with her several times, he remained quite ___ in her presence and as a result, he could not really be himself.
A.pleased
B.disregarded
C.heartened
D.meditative
E.inhibited
解析：因果关系，特别喜欢一个人，导致他跟她在一起的时候会乱来（别想多）意译：詹姆斯非常崇拜那个教授，喜欢她了很长时间，以至于就算跟她吃过好几次饭，当她出现的时候他还是很局促，以至于行为失常。

答案：E
错选：C
18.Scholar’s sense of uniqueness of the central concept of “the state” at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly ___ mode of study.
A.thorough
B.distinctive
C.dependable
D.scientific
E.mundane
解析：动词提示同义重复。

意译：在政治科学慢慢变成一种真正的科学之时，学者们对于“国家”这个中心观念的独特观点自然导致了他们努力想要创造一种同样独特的研究模式。

答案：B
错选：不会错
19.Linguists have now confirmed what experienced users of ASL——American Sign Language —— have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically ___ language in that it is capable of expressing every possible syntactic relation.
A.tranished
B.economical
plete
D.shifting
E.abysmal
解析：因果关系提示词：in that
意译：语言学家们现在确认了ASL（美国手势语）的真正有经验的使用者们他们打心底里知道这一点：美国手势语是一种语法上完备的语言，因为它可以表达任何一种可能的句法关系。

答案：C
错选：不会错选
20.From the outset, the concept of freedom of the seas from the proprietary claims of nations was challenged by a contrary notion —— that of the ___ of the oceans for reasons of national security and profit.
A.promotion
B.exploration
C.enclosure
D.conservation
E.surveying
解析：注意两个结构：A is challenged by B 说明他们想法;第二个结构：freedom from something表示相反。

意译：从一开始的时候，海洋自由不受到国家主权声称的影响这种观点就受到了对立观点的挑战：出于国家安全和利益考虑，必须进行海洋圈地划分。

答案：C
错选：E。