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.
# S+ b: I/ O( E& i' v* a    (A) romance
: ^% I' S4 b9 A0 m' A. v    (B) premonition
* N) L4 Y0 E  S& u; H, H& n% ~    (C) mysticism
    (D) invisibility
    (E) history
  
3 o5 ]4 S, {* j: K/ S317. 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.
0 C4 x9 Z' f0 ]( v  [( I    (A) plague ... chronic
0 A- V- p' d- i- p) U/ C' s; _    (B) detriment ... ominous
    (C) antiseptic ... prevalent
    (D) vestige ... contemporary
    (E) epidemic ... salutary
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6 B" s3 j# b, L8 X- y" ]318. Only the fear of immediate ________ prevents that country from launching an attack.
9 u" D5 O, z" M8 U; z0 h    (A) reprisal
7 i7 B7 @- x' A1 Q8 r8 w; j    (B) surrender
    (C) truce
* z8 n  r' H& V& D    (D) surveillance
    (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
    (B) euphoric ... gloom
    (C) prudent ... benevolence
    (D) ascetic ... misery
- y1 w/ j$ B3 ?$ k( V  N    (E) ambivalence ... optimism
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- Y0 a9 Y% ?1 p% v" o5 A. K320. Pain is the body’s early warning system: loss of ________ in the extremities leaves a person ________ injuring himself unwittingly.
    (A) agony ... in capable of
: T* k% ~4 O% `6 d    (B) sensation ... vulnerable to
0 x; |" g- `* q, X8 \' h! U    (C) consciousness ... desirous of
    (D) feeling ... habituated to
    (E) movement ... prone to
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