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
' `  x7 c# i% ]' ?. \" j   (B) fiction
   (C) inventiveness
   (D) art
   (E) brilliance
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2. 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.
  U8 ^  w! ^& o: _   (A) generality
   (B) fusion
   (C) congruity
   (D) dichotomy
   (E) reciprocity
  
, Q" `- D0 U- ]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.
   (A) negates ... temptation
5 J7 k! Y- X! ~  S: B* D3 ^   (B) controls ... resolution
   (C) engenders ... propensity
   (D) tempers ... proclivity
   (E) obviates ... inclination
  
' J3 Z$ j6 v4 j  _* Y# o+ y: l4. 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.
* m- @- _4 f( W0 {   (A) vague
   (B) assertive
   (C) casual
$ E' C* s2 i% H2 p5 f* U   (D) vicious
' E+ @7 a* m8 U- e+ ?) z; v' \   (E) tidy
  
5. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
" }+ \. ^7 }2 O+ C   (A) segregated from
- x# C- _7 n' J1 {   (B) parallel to
1 K7 D& z; }* x# H8 T' \   (C) dependent on
& U3 v% D& i7 M   (D) overshadowed by
2 E6 X8 ^8 @9 k# X# \! P1 s8 B   (E) mimicked by
  
2 g5 i3 j) t% k+ G2 Q6. For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.
   (A) rationality
' m1 F* H3 L% z6 {. U& A2 j   (B) flexibility
- W) L& j& d0 g4 e" ?   (C) diffidence
6 v' L# {! ]7 y' _4 S9 [   (D) disinterestedness
+ t& H+ k/ X5 e1 L   (E) insincerity
  
% N5 i3 f9 r* g7. 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.
- d0 T7 K  R0 |, n0 K  }# X! j   (A) beautiful ... immutability
' a/ P8 u# W* K; \3 V- e   (B) cheerful ... transitoriness
; g- P+ U7 Z2 W8 p2 D0 S3 }   (C) colorful ... abstractness
   (D) luxuriant ... simplicity
6 H; \, E2 G0 m, a   (E) conventional ... wildness
/ ]: n9 ~' l' l2 d4 m8 x9 E2 F; r) t 1.  dubious 令人怀疑的；
6 o$ O" Q1 [% }+ V! l  t    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
. E- z# `# o) u; I- _( R" B9 c6 h    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；  
. F7 Y5 ?& N' C, \' b* G( `4 {his 指代的是这道题没有出现的某一位评论家。
! v/ e0 f) C; k/ y6 A; I) v 2.  assorted = various 多种多样的，形形色色的；
4 e' }* A5 ~, o% }5 ^    effusion 热情洋溢的情感或者支持性的情感；
1 D4 H& i: v9 }# i3 J4 L1 `    题目结构：在句首用 despite 作转折，在之后有两个 there be 句型作了
              一个并列，即转折里有并列。
6 ^8 [! I( E5 t2 I. u    generality 共性；fusion  融合；congruity 和谐，一致；
    dichotomy  两分，对立；
    答案 D
4 v3 c' Q: z8 A8 s5 F7 N% s    reciprocity 互惠互利；
支持性的情感流向了对方。
    社会背景。
5 d/ y5 Y) M  c& t1 f4 G5 A; f/ f8 s3. 在GRE中找指代是最容易的方法是用单复数找指代。
1 Q+ U8 Q$ q, v: q; _" I   negate 否认；control 控制；engender 产生；
   temper 减轻，缓和；obviate 排除；
   答案 C
, h$ m; H, g- E& ]% C5 ^, `   propensity 倾向；