新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导三十二
1. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.(A) connoisseur
(B) critic
(C) friend
(D) scourge
(E) judge
2. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ________ further education.
(A) entitled to
(B) striving for
(C) deprived of
(D) uninterested in
(E) participating in
3. Broadway audiences have become inured to ________ and so ________ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
(A) sentimentality ... reluctant
(B) condescension ... disinclined
(C) histrionics ... unlikely
(D) cleverness ... eager
(E) mediocrity ... desperate
4. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
(A) extrapolate
(B) transcribe
(C) complicate
(D) amplify
(E) manage
5. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ________ later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.
(A) disdain for
(B) imitation of
(C) ambivalence about
(D) deference to
(E) influence on
6. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ________.
(A) irrelevant
(B) facetious
(C) mistaken
(D) critical
(E) insincere
7. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ________ critical.
(A) perennially
(B) disturbingly
(C) uniquely
(D) archetypally
(E) captiously
因果关系
思路
原因是一般陈述句结果是双重否定句
5. Given 表因果关系
后面的内容与前面相反
前面是不独立的
答案：E
later
distain for蔑视
imitation模仿
ambivalence about有爱恨的矛盾心理
deference尊敬influence on影响
6. since因果关系
refused to consider
答案：E
insincere不真诚的
7. 代沟
obvious constants明显长存
perennially永久存在的
disturbingly令人心烦意乱的
uniquely独一无二的独特的
答案:C
rivalry争斗 -> struggle
critical重要的
从句表原因
when； which； what； where； who
页:
[1]