GRE考试试题（三）
SECTION 7
Time –30 minutes
38 Questions
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1. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic
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travelers portrayed the American West as a land of
---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists
created ---- image of a land of infinite promise.
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(A) lurid.. a mundane #
(B) incredible.. an underplayed #
(C) dispiriting.. an identical #
(D) intriguing.. a luxuriant
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(E) unremitting.. a compelling
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2. Honeybees tend to be more ---- than earth bees:
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the former, unlike the latter, search for food together #
and signal their individual findings to one another.
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(A) insular
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(B) aggressive #
(C) differentiated
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(D) mobile #
(E) social
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3. Joe spoke of superfluous and ---- matters with
exactly the same degree of intensity, as though for
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him serious issues mattered neither more nor less
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than did ----.
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(A) vital.. trivialities #
(B) redundant.. superficialities #
(C) important.. necessities
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(D) impractical.. outcomes
(E) humdrum.. essentials
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4. The value of Davis’ sociological research is com-
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promised by his unscrupulous tendency to use
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materials---- in order to substantiate his own
claims, while ---- information that points to other
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possible conclusions. #
(A) haphazardly.. deploying #
(B) selectively.. disregarding
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(C) cleverly.. weighing #
(D) modestly.. refuting
(E) arbitrarily.. emphasizing
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5. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to ----
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volume and depth, they were able to replace the
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medieval convention of symbolic, two-dimensional #
space with the more ---- illusion of actual space. #
(A) reverse.. conventional #
(B) portray.. abstract #
(C) deny.. concrete #
(D) adumbrate.. fragmented #
(E) render.. realistic #
6. He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but
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instead he encountered ---- bordering on hostility. #
(A) patience #
(B) discretion
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(C) openness #
(D) ineptitude
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(E) indifference
7. The diplomat, selected for her demonstrated patience #
and skill in conducting such delicate negotiations, #
---- to make a decision during the talks because any
sudden commitment at that time would have been ----. #
(A) resolved.. detrimental
(B) refused.. apropos
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(C) declined.. inopportune #
(D) struggled.. unconscionable
(E) hesitated.. warranted #
8. CONDUCTOR: INSTRUMENTALIST:: #
(A) director: actor #
(B) sculptor: painter
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(C) choreographer: composer
(D) virtuoso: amateur
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(E) poet: listener #
9. QUARRY: ROCK #
(A) silt: gravel
(B) sky: rain #
(C) cold: ice #
(D) mine: ore
(E) jewel: diamond #
10. STICKLER: EXACTING:: #
(A) charlatan: forthright #
(B) malcontent: solicitous
(C) misanthrope: expressive #
(D) defeatist: resigned
(E) braggart: unassuming
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11. WALK: AMBLE::
(A) dream: imagine #
(B) talk: chat #
(C) swim: float
(D) look: stare #
(E) speak: whisper #
12. JAZZ: MUSIC:: #
(A) act: play #
(B) variety: vaudeville #
(C) portraiture: painting #
(D) menu: restaurant #
(E) species: biology #
13. REPATRIATE: EMIGRATION::
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(A) reinstate: election
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(B) recall: impeachment
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(C) appropriate: taxation #
(D) repeal: ratification #
(E) appeal: adjudication #
14. PLACEBO: INNOCUOUS:: #
(A) antibiotic: viral
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(B) vapor: opaque
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(C) salve: unctuous
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(D) anesthetic: astringent #
(E) vitamin: synthetic
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15. DISSEMINATE: INFORMATION::
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(A) amend: testimony
(B) analyze: evidence #
(C) investigate: crime #
(D) prevaricate: confirmation #
(E) foment: discontentment
16. VOICE: QUAVER:: #
(A) pace: quicken
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(B) cheeks: dimple
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(C) concentration: focus #
(D) hand: tremble #
(E) eye: blink #
Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a #
moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker #
in the England of the 1840’s. What is most impressive #
about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made
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(5) by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experi- #
ence of everyday life in working-class homes. Her method
is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes such
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features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect,
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the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea #
(10)party, an itemized description of the furniture of the
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Bartons’ living room, and a transcription (again anno- #
tated) of the ballad "The Oldham Weaver." The interest
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of this record is considerable, even though the method
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has a slightly distancing effect.
(15) As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could
hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside
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observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is
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always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imag-
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inative re-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green #
(20)Heys Fields, of tea at the Bartons’ house, and of John #
Barton and his friend’s discovery of the starving family #
in the cellar in the chapter "Poverty and Death." Indeed, #
for a similarly convincing re-creation of such families’
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emotions and responses (which are more crucial than the
(25)material details on which the mere reporter is apt to con-
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centrate), the English novel had to wait 60 years for the #
early writing of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite来源：第一考试网 #
conveys the sense of full participation that would
completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton, she
(30)still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition of #
feelings that has its own sufficient conviction. #
The chapter "Old Alice’s History " brilliantly drama- #
tizes the situation of that early generation of workers
brought from the villages and the countryside to the #
(35)urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the #
weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of
biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an #
urban industrial environment: an affinity for living #
things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environ- #
(40)ment,into a kind of crankiness. The early chapters―
about factory workers walking out in spring into Green
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Heys Fields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her
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cellar the twig- gathering for brooms in the native village
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that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on #
(45)his impaled insects― capture the characteristic responses #
of a generation to the new and crushing experience of
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industrialism. The other early chapters eloquently por- #
tray the development of the instinctive cooperation with
each other that was already becoming an important #
tradition among workers.
17.Which of the following best describes the author’s #
attitude toward Gaskell’s use of the method of
documentary record in Mary Barton?
(A) Uncritical enthusiasm #
(B) Unresolved ambivalence
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(C) Qualified approval #
(D) Resigned acceptance #
(E) Mild irritation #
18. According to the passage, Mary Barton and the #
early novels of D. H. Lawrence share which of the #
following? #
(A) Depiction of the feelings of working-class families
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(B) Documentary objectivity about working-class
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circumstances #
(C) Richly detailed description of working-class #
adjustment to urban life
(D) Imaginatively structured plots about working- #
class characters
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(E) Experimental prose style based on working-
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class dialect #
19. Which of the following is most closely analogous to #
Job Legh in Mary Barton, as that character is
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described in the passage? #
(A) An entomologist who collected butterflies as a
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child
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(B) A small-town attorney whose hobby is nature #
photography #
(C) A young man who leaves his family’s dairy
farm to start his own business #
(D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the
roof of his apartment building #
(E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill
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under dangerous conditions
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20. It can be inferred from examples given in the last
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paragraph of the passage that which of the following #
was part of "the new and crushing experience of
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industrialism" (lines 46-47) for many members of #
the English working class in the nineteenth century? #
(A) Extortionate food prices #
(B) Geographical displacement
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(C) Hazardous working conditions
(D) Alienation from fellow workers
(E) Dissolution of family ties
21. It can be inferred that the author of the passage
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believes that Mary Barton might have been an
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even better novel if Gaskell had #
(A) concentrated on the emotions of a single #
character #
(B) made no attempt to re-create experiences of #
which she had no firsthand knowledge
(C) made no attempt to reproduce working-class #
dialects #
(D) grown up in an industrial city #
(E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider
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22. Which of the following phrases could best be
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substituted for the phrase "this aspect of Mary
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Barton" in line 29 without changing the meaning #
of the passage as a whole? #
(A) the material details in an urban working-class
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environment
(B) the influence of Mary Barton on lawrence’s
early work #
(C) the place of Mary Barton in the development
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of the English novel
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(D) the extent of the poverty and physical
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suffering among England’s industrial #
workers in the 1840’s.
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(E) the portrayal of the particular feelings and
responses of working-class characters #
23. The author of the passage describes Mary Barton
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as each of the following EXCEPT #
(A) insightful
(B) meticulous
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(C) vivid
(D) poignant #
(E) lyrical #
As of the late 1980’s. neither theorists nor large-
scale computer climate models could accurately predict #
whether cloud systems would help or hurt a warming #
globe. Some studies suggested that a four percent #
(5)increase in stratocumulus clouds over the ocean could #
compensate for a doubling in atmospheric carbon diox- #
ide, preventing a potentially disastrous planetwide temp-
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erature increase. On the other hand, an increase in cirrus #
clouds could increase global warming.
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(10) That clouds represented the weakest element in cli- #
mate models was illustrated by a study of fourteen such
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models. Comparing climate forecasts for a world with
double the current amount of carbon dioxide, researchers
found that the models agreed quite well if clouds were
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(15)not included. But when clouds were incorporated, a wide #
range of forecasts was produced. With such discrepancies #
plaguing the models, scientists could not easily predict
how quickly the world’s climate would change, nor could
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they tell which regions would face dustier droughts or
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deadlier monsoons.
24.The author of the passage is primarily concerned #
with #
(A) confirming a theory
(B) supporting a statement #
(C) presenting new information
(D) predicting future discoveries
(E) reconciling discrepant findings
25. It can be inferred that one reason the fourteen models #
described in the passage failed to agree was that
(A) they failed to incorporate the most up-to-date
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information about the effect of clouds on
climate
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(B) they were based on faulty information about #
factors other than clouds that affect climate. #
(C) they were based on different assumptions about
the overall effects of clouds on climate #
(D) their originators disagreed about the kinds of第一考试网整理 #
forecasts the models should provide #
(E) their originators disagreed about the factors
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other than clouds that should be included in #
the models
26. It can be inferred that the primary purpose of the #
models included in the study discussed in the second #
paragraph of the passage was to #
(A) predict future changes in the world’s climate
(B) predict the effects of cloud systems on the #
world’s climate #
(C) find a way to prevent a disastrous planetwide
temperature increase #
(D) assess the percentage of the Earth’s surface
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covered by cloud systems
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(E) estimate by how much the amount of carbon #
dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere will #
increase #
27. The information in the passage suggests that sci-
entists would have to answer which of the following
questions in order to predict the effect of clouds on #
the warming of the globe?
(A) What kinds of cloud systems will form over the
Earth?
(B) How can cloud systems be encouraged to form #
over the ocean? #
(C) What are the causes of the projected planetwide
temperature increase? #
(D) What proportion of cloud systems are currently #
composed of cirrus of clouds? #
(E) What proportion of the clouds in the atmosphere #
form over land masses? #
28. SUSPEND:
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(A) force
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(B) split #
(C) tilt
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(D) slide down #
(E) let fall #
29. CREDULITY: #
(A) originality
(B) skepticism #
(C) diligence
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(D) animation #
(E) stoicism #
30. MILD: #
(A) toxic
(B) uniform
(C) maximal
(D) asymptomatic
(E) acute #
31. IMPLEMENT:
(A) distort #
(B) foil
(C) overlook
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(D) aggravate #
(E) misinterpret #
32. DIFFIDENCE:: #
(A) trustworthiness #
(B) assertiveness #
(C) lack of preparation #
(D) resistance to change
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(E) willingness to blame #
33. BYZANTINE:
(A) symmetrical
(B) variegated #
(C) discordant #
(D) straightforward
(E) unblemished
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34. PROCLIVITY: #
(A) confusion #
(B) deprivation #
(C) obstruction #
(D) aversion
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(E) hardship #
35. PROTRACT:
(A) treat fairly #
(B) request hesitantly
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(C) take back
(D) cut short
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(E) make accurate #
36. VAUNTING: #
(A) plucky #
(B) meek
(C) chaste
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(D) cowardly
(E) ardent #
37. HALE:
(A) unenthusiastic #
(B) staid #
(C) odious
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(D) infirm #
(E) uncharacteristic #
38. SEMINAL:
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(A) derivative
(B) substantiated #
(C) reductive
(D) ambiguous
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(E) extremist #
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