新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导四十七
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
(E) subjective ... metaphorical
3. outgrowths结果
concerns关注
precursors前辈 relevance... to...
答案：C
byproducts副产品
vestiges遗迹
4. 第二个空格的动作与by所引导的手段相反。
diffusing传播，散开
tracking跟踪
concealing掩盖
isolating隔离
eliminating消除
答案：E
approach途径，方法，渠道，接近，看待，讨论，采纳
5. far from引导一个转折。词性不同的概念找反义词应先把动词或名词转化为
形容词或者副词再与已知的形容词或者副词比较。
adapt→可适应的 pressing急迫的，紧迫的
dismiss→忽略的，不重要的 relevant相关的，重要的
答案：B
6. 7.
重点：like unlike
相同点：从语法角度两者是一致的；
不同点：A like B 后面空格填B的特点；
A unlike B 后面空格填A的特点。
6. 动作的对象不是ecology而是economics。
答案：Acommodities商品
communication交流
7. 第二个空格填所有语言的特点。
ornamental装饰性的
unidimensional一维的
symbolic象征的
literal非比喻性的 allusive暗指的，暗示的
答案：D
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