新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导二十三

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1. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________.
   (A) maturity
0 |) o1 N; E! u8 H1 b) u   (B) fiction
. H) s  ^9 G  e) n   (C) inventiveness
   (D) art
   (E) brilliance
  
% U7 S# \& u; R9 r6 p: r2. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ________ between them.
9 M/ K4 M5 l# K4 W   (A) generality
  {0 q$ T2 {: _6 {. U9 x   (B) fusion
6 |. y+ x& V& x: f6 c$ O   (C) congruity
& q  r- h$ ~0 c0 O+ [   (D) dichotomy
' \5 R/ g$ U5 g  ?+ V; u   (E) reciprocity
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# v0 n8 ~7 G8 V# g5 G- ~3. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ________ the ________ to abuse them.
6 \0 V" T4 V2 a/ X   (A) negates ... temptation
4 h  n" {& b9 |( Z" t7 v4 I7 \   (B) controls ... resolution
$ C( `6 S  Y* D4 q3 @$ t   (C) engenders ... propensity
* d4 W: U; K+ l   (D) tempers ... proclivity
   (E) obviates ... inclination
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8 f* p/ ^0 Z: N) x5 G. y4. Regardless of what ________ theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent — nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.
% K; P! m5 r$ x   (A) vague
   (B) assertive
   (C) casual
   (D) vicious
( g/ L$ h8 j$ v) P   (E) tidy
  
: o) {& f# z5 q7 U, x  m* R( J5. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
3 E5 n; @6 A' ]4 ~) U( L" l; ~   (A) segregated from
   (B) parallel to
   (C) dependent on
   (D) overshadowed by
7 ?$ H- K& o& u& g  f, E# \; e( N   (E) mimicked by
  
; K$ q( g! c6 x2 Q9 P6. For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.
9 L) f! w5 n7 G/ T$ y8 ^   (A) rationality
' V- y1 X7 r5 }; Z7 X   (B) flexibility
   (C) diffidence
, p$ F8 D1 i" \+ C* ?, s   (D) disinterestedness
   (E) insincerity
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! t5 Q  l. x& Z7 j5 A7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ________; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from asense of the ________ of natural beauty and human glory.
5 z& D  H% p) ]% }   (A) beautiful ... immutability
   (B) cheerful ... transitoriness
) ]$ `! O0 R3 r( q8 T   (C) colorful ... abstractness
   (D) luxuriant ... simplicity
   (E) conventional ... wildness
  A& C$ ^6 ~+ N 1.  dubious 令人怀疑的；
8 s9 K2 y( y0 C$ u0 K- A    what是proved的宾语，而that也是proved的宾语,两句话在句子里起到了相同的语法作用，意味着两     句话的内容是完全重复的。
    maturity 成熟；
答案 A
  ]- w0 C- P/ f& R4 `" X) Y    fiction 虚构；inventiveness 发明，创造；art 艺术；
    brilliance 才华横溢；
    distinction 不同点，区分点；荣誉，成就，贡献；  
his 指代的是这道题没有出现的某一位评论家。
2.  assorted = various 多种多样的，形形色色的；
0 I1 L6 @" c( l/ H    effusion 热情洋溢的情感或者支持性的情感；
    题目结构：在句首用 despite 作转折，在之后有两个 there be 句型作了
  ~- `' b1 Z0 g  N$ L/ z& X              一个并列，即转折里有并列。
    generality 共性；fusion  融合；congruity 和谐，一致；
    dichotomy  两分，对立；
& R. b" j, b! ^5 s& l    答案 D
; V- ~; Y4 t( h  u' ~, S    reciprocity 互惠互利；
支持性的情感流向了对方。
    社会背景。
4 J& o# P" M  h6 g/ y2 x3. 在GRE中找指代是最容易的方法是用单复数找指代。
   negate 否认；control 控制；engender 产生；
   temper 减轻，缓和；obviate 排除；
   答案 C
   propensity 倾向；