新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导二十二

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1. Agronomists are increasingly worried about "desertification," the phenomenon that is turning many of the world’s ________ fields and pastures into ________ wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.
   (A) fertile ... barren
   (B) productive ... blooming
! x6 l" E2 f" ?1 Q' |. L   (C) arid ... thriving
   (D) poorest ... marginal
   (E) largest ... saturated
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2. Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to ________; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight ________ what is hidden.
: w, \( H& `9 p9 \2 D( l: S   (A) condemn ... distorts
   (B) monitor ... signals
& M& L- y3 S4 w, G1 \/ i   (C) repress ... dramatizes
   (D) obviate ... fosters
4 G5 o. E" W0 [, d9 n$ l4 X2 v8 C   (E) divulge ... conceals
  
3. Because they had various meanings in nineteenth century biological thought, "mechanism" and "vitalism" ought not to be considered ________ terms; thus, I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely ________.
  x. {' B! e! B' _   (A) univocal ... erroneous
   (B) problematic ... anachronistic
% X* h% y! i8 @3 t# t! o  N   (C) intractable ... obtuse
   (D) congruent ... suspect
   (E) multifaceted ... vapid
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4. Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ________ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than ________ it.
* n: y3 D& v7 O1 Y/ c* R  S) }   (A) ensure ... promoting
   (B) inhibit ... perpetuating
1 a, v& L' t, n& n' w( d( k   (C) undermine ... resurrecting
  T  y0 N' g9 B' S: |   (D) modify ... appreciating
+ X$ T  d# A5 K) e# y   (E) supplement ... confining
  
5. As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either ________, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action ________.
$ N- `- l$ \* F0 ]+ r3 [$ H# o+ B   (A) irresolute ... unlikely
   (B) corroborative ... redundant
   (C) platitudinous ... justifiable
' R0 X& X* ?3 m4 O: B& u5 W- G* B   (D) homogeneous ... impartial
   (E) labyrinthine ... unacceptable
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6. Histocompatibility antigens that attack foreign tissue in the body cannot have been ________ through evolution expressly to ________ organ transplantation; on the contrary, they have been found to facilitate many essential biological functions.
   (A) designed ... retain
. {, o3 r* x7 |# |1 r5 l   (B) produced ... aid
   (C) developed ... enhance
' ?- L" U+ N4 y4 o( v   (D) selected ... promote
' ]. t3 [) d' Z$ _* Y   (E) conserved ... foil
  
7. It is almost always desirable to increase the yield of a crop if ________ increases are not also necessary in energy, labor, and other inputs of crop production.
. ^. Y) u6 S! a$ o   (A) predetermined
   (B) commensurate
   (C) compatible
- x6 S$ t% T, e: j$ b   (D) measured
% \- g7 d1 I+ N9 P6 Q   (E) equivocal
2.  prudery 假正经，过分守礼；  
  
3 D* o+ y- n  f     distorts 扭曲，歪曲；signals 发信号；  
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0 D' ]( i' w# ~0 T2 l! R' |; K* I     gemotyze 使戏剧化，使惹人注目；fosters 抚育，促进；  
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9 C7 @9 H: q9 Q- Y. D7 M5 ]4 W     答案 C       repress 压制；  
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     两句话的并列，即双句并列，这里指特殊并列句。它的特点：两句话有相同或者相似的先行词来引导，                                                                                    或者两句话起到相同的语法作用。  
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% ]# D3 L+ d6 n2 D2 x0 Z    特殊并列句解题的基本思路是：当两句话先行词基本一致，语法作用也基本相同，那么就意味着两句话内容一致。如果上句有空格，那它的线索必然来自下面一个分句。如果下句也有空格，它的线索必然来自上面一个分句。两句话内部是进行相互的推导的。