新GRE考试填空模拟练习题八十

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396. The benefits of telecommuting-working at home by means of various electronic communication devices rather than ________ commuting to an office-have been so clearly and consistently ________ that telework is on the rise in virtually every country with a functioning telephone system.
    (A) personally ... forgotten
    (B) instantly ... underrated
    (C) physically ... demonstrated
% b( r% D2 e9 Z, d2 G    (D) painfully ...  denounced
( u/ i6 b: v! R; Y$ @/ R% t8 k    (E) intermittently ... discredited
  
397. The best Eskimo carvings of all ages seem to possess a powerful ability to ________ the great barriers of language and time and communicate ________ with us.
    (A) leap over ... temporarily
    (B) reach across ... directly
* B) o4 @  Q9 {! I    (C) rise above ... verbally
9 T* G: t0 Z+ y; O& N! Q    (D) pass through ... infrequently
: p5 J2 t3 j; ]: Y& r    (E) leave behind ... anonymously
  
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+ F+ M3 D, ^; u8 U- m1 L    (A) insoluble
, v- }4 k; @/ w' `    (B) superficial
$ A# V7 U" g, ?) t0 o( o    (C) extraneous
8 j2 F& Q2 K/ R- e    (D) volatile
    (E) insipid
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399. The biographer may not have ________ the depths of her subject’s self-contradictory character, but she has traced its intriguingly complex ________ .
    (A) plumbed ... tedium
    (B) sounded ... surface
% Z1 Z2 T7 y; `3 @$ ^, X8 A. Z; o    (C) thwarted ... background
+ e; V5 A) N$ s, R) _3 [    (D) reached ... insipidity
; O. A3 T5 c% U2 ]7 z    (E) disregarded ... psyche
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2 p; m) T: Q$ x+ D8 I7 F3 c400. The biographer of Tennyson is confronted with the problem, rarely solved, of how to make a basically ________ life interesting.
    (A) dramatic
1 \" X1 q5 b6 V" l1 y2 j5 b, X    (B) bewildering
    (C) intriguing
    (D) controversial
    (E) uneventful
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