新GRE模考题

新GRE 模考题

Sect ion 3

For Questions 1 to 5, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

1. Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice.

(A) bask in

(B) give out

(C) despair of

(D) gloat over

(E) shrug off

2. The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather

observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanity’s longest continuous ______ of natural events.

(A) defiance

(B) documentation

(C) maintenance

(D) theory

(E) domination

3. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical ______ or a brilliant ______

blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.

4. Their mutual teasing seemed ______, but in fact it ______ a long-standing hostility.

5． The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious activity and the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the 1870’s ______ any assertion that feminism was ______ in that period.

Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following reading passage.

From the 1900’s through the 1950’s waitresses in the United States developed a form of union ism based on the unions’ defining the skills that their occupation included and enforcing standards for the performance of those skills. This “occupational unionism” differed substantially from the “worksite unionism” prevalent among factory workers. Rather than unionizing the workforces of particular employers, waitress locals sought to control their occupation throughout a city. Occupational unionism operated through union hiring halls, which provided free placement services to employers who agreed to hire their personnel only through the union. Hiring halls offered union waitresses collective employment security, not individual job security—a basic protection offered by worksite unions. That is, when a waitress lost her job, the local did not intervene with her employer but placed her elsewhere; and when jobs were scarce, the work hours available were distributed fairly among all members rather than being assigned according to seniority.

6. The primary purpose of the passage is to

(A) analyze a current trend in relation to the past

(B) discuss a particular solution to a long-standing problem

(C) analyze changes in the way that certain standards have been enforced

(D) apply a generalization to an unusual situation

(E) describe an approach by contrasting it with another approach

7. The author of the passage mentions “particular employers” (line 5) primarily in order to

(A) suggest that occupational unions found some employers difficult to satisfy

(B) indicate that the occupational unions served some employers but not others

(C) emphasize the unique focus of occupational unionism

(D) accentuate the hostility of some employers toward occupational unionism

(E) point out a weakness of worksite unionism

Questions 8 to 9 are based on the following reading passage.

The dark regions in the starry night sky are not pockets in the universe that are devoid of stars as had long been thought. Rather, they are dark because of interstellar dust that hides the stars behind it. Although its visual effect is so pronounced, dust is only a minor constituent of the material, extremely low in density, that lies between the stars. Dust accounts for about one percent of the total mass of interstellar matter. The rest is hydrogen and helium gas, with small amounts of other elements. The interstellar material, rather like terrestrial clouds, comes in all shapes and sizes. The average density of interstellar material in the vicinity of our Sun is 1,000 to 10,000 times less than the best terrestrial laboratory vacuum. It is only because of the enormous interstellar