新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导四十七

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1. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ________ during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ________ its violent nature.
7 }) Z$ W- v( T$ L* ~4 J   (A) awe-inspiring ... restrained
- [: O9 x8 e8 U& B1 S5 i   (B) gaseous ... confirmed
   (C) explosive ... belied
+ u+ Z4 d7 t0 B   (D) familiar ... moderated
   (E) volatile ... suggested
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% `/ I$ T. Q: v# t; F2. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ________ than a similar article intended for ________ use.
   (A) delicately ... vocational
   (B) colorfully ... festive
* X6 b# b" @1 S* Q4 b" y/ @! E; E   (C) creatively ... religious
   (D) subtly ... commercial
8 r  W6 x6 r- m   (E) lavishly ... everyday
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3. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current ________ of Smith’s valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ________ of present-day economics.
& b  f6 K" A5 C) ]  p" f% Y  W, l   (A) disregard ... outgrowths
2 n$ R# H' c. Y3 S, }   (B) reaffirmation ... concerns
   (C) relevance ... precursors
   (D) acceptance ... byproducts
   (E) importance ... vestiges
  
1 r% U1 c# p* }4. The reduction of noise has been ________ in terms of ________ its sources, but the alternative of canceling noise out by adding sound with the opposite wave pattern may be more useful in practice.
   (A) justified ... diffusing
2 B* f3 v5 R  \& c1 ~   (B) accomplished ... tracking
   (C) conceived ... concealing
   (D) explained ... isolating
: m2 }3 Q: `# V. P6 V- a   (E) approached ... eliminating
6 B  A; v7 Y7 d2 T/ @) H  
3 z- F( l  F$ u7 p( S5. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can ________ the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more ________ than we had thought.
   (A) adapt ... pressing
   (B) dismiss ... relevant
( W$ C$ N- e6 N   (C) rediscover ... unconventional
   (D) admire ... elusive
   (E) appreciate ... interesting
  
6. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable ________ through a complex network of producers and consumers.
   (A) commodities
   (B) dividends
   (C) communications
   (D) nutrients
! K& j9 p$ s0 C+ ]5 l2 n* F   (E) artifacts
  
$ A" ~3 R) h' P! S: F7. Although scientists claim that the seemingly ________ language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently ________.
   (A) ornamental ... subtle
" n) C. ]& H4 c& b9 V   (B) unidimensional ... unintelligible
   (C) symbolic ... complex
0 y, M3 }2 Y) ?! [5 Z   (D) literal ... allusive
   (E) subjective ... metaphorical
8 ?0 j9 Y9 s# a& C3. outgrowths  结果
( R; `) p, E/ |3 Z5 s$ R  concerns  关注
  precursors  前辈    relevance... to...
  答案：C
, J* P9 c4 X+ F; m  byproducts  副产品
; n! X% y4 n8 @1 o8 m0 V  vestiges  遗迹
4 e: ]* |( J- b- k. A8 s6 w1 A  q4. 第二个空格的动作与by所引导的手段相反。
  diffusing  传播，散开
' M6 {# f  t6 t3 L1 _! ?# d8 ^  tracking  跟踪
  concealing  掩盖
  isolating  隔离
" _$ y+ B2 @, H' V) ~+ G  eliminating  消除
  答案：E
/ n1 [% ]9 ]0 b  \7 _0 F0 N8 |  approach  途径，方法，渠道，接近，看待，讨论，采纳
5. far from引导一个转折。词性不同的概念找反义词应先把动词或名词转化为
  形容词或者副词再与已知的形容词或者副词比较。
2 \. I! p% C+ N. m* m% t2 r  adapt→可适应的    pressing  急迫的，紧迫的
2 I- y$ Q  ]3 h' g  dismiss→忽略的，不重要的    relevant  相关的，重要的
1 M1 _4 M$ g7 f$ d: `/ d6 \  答案：B
6. 7.  
' `6 {8 }, {" y: n$ V, S重点：like unlike
相同点：从语法角度两者是一致的；
不同点：A like B 后面空格填B的特点；
4 |, S( C+ e4 W/ w7 Q4 G        A unlike B 后面空格填A的特点。
! x& t. m# `) R0 J" s6. 动作的对象不是ecology而是economics。
   答案：A  commodities  商品
   communication  交流
7. 第二个空格填所有语言的特点。
   ornamental  装饰性的
   unidimensional  一维的
   symbolic  象征的
   literal  非比喻性的    allusive  暗指的，暗示的
   答案：D