新GRE填空题型练习DAY5

【GRE】

1. Despite the fact that the two council members belonged to different political parties, they ________ the issue of how to finance the town debt.

A. complicated

B. avoided

C. attested to

D. reported on

E. agreed on

2. The breathing spell provided by the ________ arms shipments should give all the

combatants a chance to reevaluate their positions.

A. plethora of

B. moratorium on

C. reciprocation of

D. concentration on

E. development of

3. The notion that cultural and biological influences ________ determine cross-cultural

diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is

cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance.

A. jointly

B. completely

C. directly

D. equally

E. eventually

4. At several points in his discussion, Graves, in effect, ________ evidence when it does not support his argument, tailoring it to his needs.

A. addresses

B. creates

C. alters

D. suppresses

E. substitutes

5. Regardless of what ________ theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that

requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent— nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.

A. vague

B. assertive

C. casual

D. vicious

E. tidy

6. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as

________ to increasingly expensive conventional housing.

A. reaction

B. an addition

C. an introduction

D. an alternative

E. a challenge

7. Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an "elementary particle," but is ________

construction.

A. a complicated

B. a convoluted

C. a distorted

D. an amorphous

E. an illusory

8. Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously

________ .

A. meditative

B. tepid

C. categorical

D. unoriginal

E. insightful

9. Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly

sequence, their timing ________ with regard to onset and duration.

A. lasts

B. varies

C. falters

D. accelerates

E. dwindles

10. While the delegate clearly sought to ________ the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.

A. substantiate

B. dampen

C. encourage

D. elucidate

E. rekindle