新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导二十三
1. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________.(A) maturity
(B) fiction
(C) inventiveness
(D) art
(E) brilliance
2. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ________ between them.
(A) generality
(B) fusion
(C) congruity
(D) dichotomy
(E) reciprocity
3. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ________ the ________ to abuse them.
(A) negates ... temptation
(B) controls ... resolution
(C) engenders ... propensity
(D) tempers ... proclivity
(E) obviates ... inclination
4. 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
5. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
(A) segregated from
(B) parallel to
(C) dependent on
(D) overshadowed by
(E) mimicked by
6. For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.
(A) rationality
(B) flexibility
(C) diffidence
(D) disinterestedness
(E) insincerity
7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ________; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from asense of the ________ of natural beauty and human glory.
(A) beautiful ... immutability
(B) cheerful ... transitoriness
(C) colorful ... abstractness
(D) luxuriant ... simplicity
(E) conventional ... wildness
1.dubious 令人怀疑的；
what是proved的宾语，而that也是proved的宾语,两句话在句子里起到了相同的语法作用，意味着两 句话的内容是完全重复的。
maturity 成熟；
答案 A
fiction 虚构；inventiveness 发明，创造；art 艺术；
brilliance 才华横溢；
distinction 不同点，区分点；荣誉，成就，贡献；
his 指代的是这道题没有出现的某一位评论家。
2.assorted = various 多种多样的，形形色色的；
effusion 热情洋溢的情感或者支持性的情感；
题目结构：在句首用 despite 作转折，在之后有两个 there be 句型作了
一个并列，即转折里有并列。
generality 共性；fusion融合；congruity 和谐，一致；
dichotomy两分，对立；
答案 D
reciprocity 互惠互利；
支持性的情感流向了对方。
社会背景。
3. 在GRE中找指代是最容易的方法是用单复数找指代。
negate 否认；control 控制；engender 产生；
temper 减轻，缓和；obviate 排除；
答案 C
propensity 倾向；
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