新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导十八
1. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ________ during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ________ its violent nature.(A) awe-inspiring ... restrained
(B) gaseous ... confirmed
(C) explosive ... belied
(D) familiar ... moderated
(E) volatile ... suggested
2. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ________ than a similar article intended for ________ use.
(A) delicately ... vocational
(B) colorfully ... festive
(C) creatively ... religious
(D) subtly ... commercial
(E) lavishly ... everyday
3. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current ________ of Smith’s valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ________ of present-day economics.
(A) disregard ... outgrowths
(B) reaffirmation ... concerns
(C) relevance ... precursors
(D) acceptance ... byproducts
(E) importance ... vestiges
4. The reduction of noise has been ________ in terms of ________ its sources, but the alternative of canceling noise out by adding sound with the opposite wave pattern may be more useful in practice.
(A) justified ... diffusing
(B) accomplished ... tracking
(C) conceived ... concealing
(D) explained ... isolating
(E) approached ... eliminating
5. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can ________ the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more ________ than we had thought.
(A) adapt ... pressing
(B) dismiss ... relevant
(C) rediscover ... unconventional
(D) admire ... elusive
(E) appreciate ... interesting
6. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable ________ through a complex network of producers and consumers.
(A) commodities
(B) dividends
(C) communications
(D) nutrients
(E) artifacts
7. Although scientists claim that the seemingly ________ language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently ________.
(A) ornamental ... subtle
(B) unidimensional ... unintelligible
(C) symbolic ... complex
(D) literal ... allusive
新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导十八
(E) subjective ... metaphorical7.答案应选 literal
注意：好好掌握单词。
GRE考试的注意事项：笔考是实力考试，要求更高；从考试形式上，机考和笔
考的难度是基本一致的；时间不宜拖的太长，用相对短
的时间考到最满意的分数；
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