新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导二十二
1. Agronomists are increasingly worried about "desertification," the phenomenon that is turning many of the world’s ________ fields and pastures into ________ wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.(A) fertile ... barren
(B) productive ... blooming
(C) arid ... thriving
(D) poorest ... marginal
(E) largest ... saturated
2. Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to ________; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight ________ what is hidden.
(A) condemn ... distorts
(B) monitor ... signals
(C) repress ... dramatizes
(D) obviate ... fosters
(E) divulge ... conceals
3. Because they had various meanings in nineteenth century biological thought, "mechanism" and "vitalism" ought not to be considered ________ terms; thus, I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely ________.
(A) univocal ... erroneous
(B) problematic ... anachronistic
(C) intractable ... obtuse
(D) congruent ... suspect
(E) multifaceted ... vapid
4. Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ________ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than ________ it.
(A) ensure ... promoting
(B) inhibit ... perpetuating
(C) undermine ... resurrecting
(D) modify ... appreciating
(E) supplement ... confining
5. As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either ________, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action ________.
(A) irresolute ... unlikely
(B) corroborative ... redundant
(C) platitudinous ... justifiable
(D) homogeneous ... impartial
(E) labyrinthine ... unacceptable
6. Histocompatibility antigens that attack foreign tissue in the body cannot have been ________ through evolution expressly to ________ organ transplantation; on the contrary, they have been found to facilitate many essential biological functions.
(A) designed ... retain
(B) produced ... aid
(C) developed ... enhance
(D) selected ... promote
(E) conserved ... foil
7. It is almost always desirable to increase the yield of a crop if ________ increases are not also necessary in energy, labor, and other inputs of crop production.
(A) predetermined
(B) commensurate
(C) compatible
(D) measured
(E) equivocal
2.prudery 假正经，过分守礼；
distorts 扭曲，歪曲；signals 发信号；
gemotyze 使戏剧化，使惹人注目；fosters 抚育，促进；
答案 C repress 压制；
两句话的并列，即双句并列，这里指特殊并列句。它的特点：两句话有相同或者相似的先行词来引导， 或者两句话起到相同的语法作用。
特殊并列句解题的基本思路是：当两句话先行词基本一致，语法作用也基本相同，那么就意味着两句话内容一致。如果上句有空格，那它的线索必然来自下面一个分句。如果下句也有空格，它的线索必然来自上面一个分句。两句话内部是进行相互的推导的。
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