新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导三十七

会计考友 发表于 2012-8-15 12:59:33

1. While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers — the incomprehension of her colleagues — octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ________ the triumph of her once ________ scientific theories.
(A) descry ... innovative
(B) regret ... insignificant
(C) perpetuate ... tentative
(D) enjoy ... authoritative
(E) savor ... heterodox

2. Nature’s energy efficiency often ________ human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency ________ the firefly’s system.
(A) engenders ... manipulates
(B) reflects ... simulates
(C) outstrips ... rivals
(D) inhibits ... matches
(E) determines ... reproduces

3. Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular experiments she let a number of ________ results slip by.
(A) inaccurate
(B) verifiable
(C) redundant
(D) salient
(E) anomalous

4. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by ________, the leaders of the movement have recently ________ most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
(A) intimidation ... issued
(B) participation ... moderated
(C) proclamation ... codified
(D) demonstration ... deliberated
(E) coercion ... repudiated

5. Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ________ this ________ view of selection.
(A) departures from ... controversial
(B) basis for ... pervasive
(C) bias toward ... unchallenged
(D) precursors of ... innovative
(E) criticisms of ... renowned

会计考友 发表于 2012-8-15 12:59:34

新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导三十七

6. Scientists’ pristine reputation as devotees of the disinterested pursuit of truth has been ________ by recent evidence that some scientists have deliberately ________ experimental results to further their own careers.
(A) reinforced ... published
(B) validated ... suppressed
(C) exterminated ... replicated
(D) compromised ... fabricated
(E) resuscitated ... challenged

7. Although Johnson’s and Smith’s initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm ________ after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to determine who their lunch partners should be.
(A) revived
(B) emerged
(C) intensified
(D) flagged
(E) persisted
时间概念在GRE填空解题中的价值
时间概念解题主要包括两方面：时间相同和时间相反。
时间相同指题中两个时间概念所表示的时间一致。
例：earlier和initially
时间相反：
1.单个时间表示相反例：until, later
2.两个时间表示相反
总结：当题中出现时间概念时，首先区分是一个时间还是两个时间。如果是单个
时间，要看其是否符合时间相反中的单个时间的类型。如果出现两个时间概
念，看看它们是一致还是相反。
3.两个场合状语例：通常和particularly usually和specifically
场合壮语一般出现在分句的句首。
1. 提到一个人不被理解一般指思想理论不被理解。
once与initially呼应
innovative革新，创新
insignificant没有意义
tentative尝试性的
authoritative权威的
eterodox异端的
答案：E
savor品尝，欣赏，从中获得快乐

会计考友 发表于 2012-8-15 12:59:35