新GRE考试填空模拟练习题六十四

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316. One of photography’s most basic and powerful traits is its ability to give substance to ________ , to present precise visual details of a time gone by.
3 \$ M; k& \# N8 ]4 K    (A) romance
    (B) premonition
; w' E' ~$ q; S3 a( T" L    (C) mysticism
    (D) invisibility
: l$ O# ^9 d8 h. A3 ?    (E) history
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317. One of the great killers until barely 50 years ago, tuberculosis ("consumption" as it was then named) seemed a scourge or ________ rather than the long-term ________ illness it was.
    (A) plague ... chronic
    (B) detriment ... ominous
    (C) antiseptic ... prevalent
    (D) vestige ... contemporary
! r2 J/ V% A) s  t8 p    (E) epidemic ... salutary
  
318. Only the fear of immediate ________ prevents that country from launching an attack.
    (A) reprisal
    (B) surrender
5 M3 R8 Z" H: {! M/ v2 J0 d    (C) truce
5 J0 P1 e4 P5 M% e8 y    (D) surveillance
/ S( y7 [! @1 q0 P0 K7 y    (E) rebuke
  
319. Our mood swings about the economy grow more extreme: when things go well, we become ________ ; when things go poorly,  ________ descends.
    (A) restive ... anxiety
, y* e" \+ ?3 z$ m2 w0 c# ^9 J8 V1 B    (B) euphoric ... gloom
    (C) prudent ... benevolence
    (D) ascetic ... misery
' U% Z; ^# c: V9 R. ]. H2 @    (E) ambivalence ... optimism
  
% l. r! t8 [; ^320. Pain is the body’s early warning system: loss of ________ in the extremities leaves a person ________ injuring himself unwittingly.
    (A) agony ... in capable of
+ u% `! l. M8 |5 Y    (B) sensation ... vulnerable to
    (C) consciousness ... desirous of
    (D) feeling ... habituated to
$ X# y0 W3 \( `% I/ ~    (E) movement ... prone to
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