历年GRE考试真题之填空题11
1 It is strange how words shape our thoughts andtrap us at the bottom of deeply----canyons of
thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the
----of past usage.
(A) cleaved.. eruptions (B) rooted.. flood
(C) incised.. river (D) ridged.. ocean
(E) notched.. mountains
2 That his intransigence in making decisions----no
open disagreement from any quarter was well 中华考试网
known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of
----their opinions in casual remarks.
(A) elicited.. quashing
(B) engendered.. recasting
(C) brooked.. intimating
(D) embodied.. instigating
(E) forbore.. emending
3 Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but
enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s
portrayed him as----thinker, eager to fill the
young with his political orthodoxy while
censoring ideas he did not like.
(A) an adventurous (B) a doctrinaire
(C) an eclectic (D) a judicious (E) a cynical
4 To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too
----: any effective intellectual leader depends
on the ability of other people to----thought
processes that did not originate with them.
(A) popular.. dismiss 中华考试网(www．Examw。com)
(B) methodical.. interpret
(C) idiosyncratic.. reenact
(D) self-confident.. revitalize
(E) pragmatic.. discourage
5 Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to
laugh at themselves, although a hint of----can
boost sales of video clips very nicely.
(A) self-deprecation (B) congeniality
(C) cynicism (D) embarrassment
(E) self-doubt
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