GRE经典题库：GRE试题8

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-15 12:40:43

22. lt can be inferred from the passage that Chinese observations of the Sun

　　during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

　　(A) are ambiguous BECause most sunspots cannot be seen with the naked eye

　　(B) probably were made under the same weather conditions as those made in Europe

　　(C) are more reliable than European observations . made during this period

　　(D) record some sunspot activity during this period

　　(E) have been employed by scientists seeking to argue that a change in solar

　　activity occurred during this period.

　　23. It can be inferred from the passage that studies attempting to use tree-ring

　　thickness to locate possi- ble links between solar periodicity and terrestrial

　　climate are based on which of the following assump- tions?

　　(A) The solar-activity cycle existed in its present form during the time period

　　in which the tree rings erew.

　　(B) The biological mechanisms causing tree growth are unaffected by short-term

　　weather pat- terns.

　　(C) Average tree-ring thickness varies from species to species.

　　(D) Tree-ring thicknesses reflecr changes in terres- trial climate.

　　(E) Both terrestrial climate and the solar-activity cycle randomly af~ct tree-ring

　　thickness.

　　The common belief of some linguists that each

　　language is a perfect vehicle for the thoughts of the

　　nation speaking it is in some ways the exact counterpart

　　of the conviction of the Manchester school of economics

　　that supply and demand will regulate everything for the(5)

　　best. Just as economists were blind to the numerous

　　cases in which the law of supply and demand left actual

　　wants unsatisfied, so also many linguists are deaf to

　　those instances in which the very nature of a ianguage

　　calls forth misunderstandings in everyday conversation,(10)

　　and in which, consequently, a word has to be modified

　　or defined in order to present the idea intended by the

　　speaker: "He took his stick,no, not John's, but his

　　own." No language is perfec't, and if we admit this truth,

　　we must also admit that it is not unreasonable to investi-(15)

　　gate the relative merits of different languages or of

　　different details in languages.

　　24. The primary purpose ofthe passage is to

　　(A) analyze an interesting feature of the English language

　　(B) refute a belief held by some linguists

　　(C) show that economic theory is relevant to linguistic study

　　(D) iilustrate the confusion that can result from the improper use of

　　language

　　(E) suggest a way in which languages can be made more nearly perfect.

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