GRE考试试题（三）
SECTION 7
Time –30 minutes #
38 Questions #
1. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic #
travelers portrayed the American West as a land of
---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists
created ---- image of a land of infinite promise. #
(A) lurid.. a mundane #
(B) incredible.. an underplayed
(C) dispiriting.. an identical
(D) intriguing.. a luxuriant #
(E) unremitting.. a compelling
2. Honeybees tend to be more ---- than earth bees: #
the former, unlike the latter, search for food together #
and signal their individual findings to one another. #
(A) insular #
(B) aggressive #
(C) differentiated
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(D) mobile #
(E) social
3. Joe spoke of superfluous and ---- matters with
exactly the same degree of intensity, as though for #
him serious issues mattered neither more nor less
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than did ----.
(A) vital.. trivialities
(B) redundant.. superficialities
(C) important.. necessities #
(D) impractical.. outcomes
(E) humdrum.. essentials
4. The value of Davis’ sociological research is com- #
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 #
(C) cleverly.. weighing
(D) modestly.. refuting
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(E) arbitrarily.. emphasizing #
5. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to ---- #
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
instead he encountered ---- bordering on hostility. #
(A) patience #
(B) discretion
(C) openness
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(D) ineptitude #
(E) indifference
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7. The diplomat, selected for her demonstrated patience #
and skill in conducting such delicate negotiations, #
---- to make a decision during the talks because any
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sudden commitment at that time would have been ----. #
(A) resolved.. detrimental #
(B) refused.. apropos
(C) declined.. inopportune
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(D) struggled.. unconscionable
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(E) hesitated.. warranted #
8. CONDUCTOR: INSTRUMENTALIST:: #
(A) director: actor #
(B) sculptor: painter #
(C) choreographer: composer
(D) virtuoso: amateur #
(E) poet: listener #
9. QUARRY: ROCK
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(A) silt: gravel #
(B) sky: rain
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(C) cold: ice #
(D) mine: ore #
(E) jewel: diamond #
10. STICKLER: EXACTING:: #
(A) charlatan: forthright #
(B) malcontent: solicitous #
(C) misanthrope: expressive
(D) defeatist: resigned
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(E) braggart: unassuming #
11. WALK: AMBLE:: #
(A) dream: imagine
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(B) talk: chat #
(C) swim: float
(D) look: stare
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(E) speak: whisper #
12. JAZZ: MUSIC::
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(A) act: play
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(B) variety: vaudeville
(C) portraiture: painting #
(D) menu: restaurant
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(E) species: biology
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13. REPATRIATE: EMIGRATION::
(A) reinstate: election #
(B) recall: impeachment
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(C) appropriate: taxation
(D) repeal: ratification #
(E) appeal: adjudication #
14. PLACEBO: INNOCUOUS:: #
(A) antibiotic: viral #
(B) vapor: opaque #
(C) salve: unctuous
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(D) anesthetic: astringent #
(E) vitamin: synthetic #
15. DISSEMINATE: INFORMATION:: #
(A) amend: testimony
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(B) analyze: evidence #
(C) investigate: crime
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(D) prevaricate: confirmation #
(E) foment: discontentment #
16. VOICE: QUAVER:: #
(A) pace: quicken
(B) cheeks: dimple #
(C) concentration: focus
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(D) hand: tremble
(E) eye: blink #
Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a
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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 #
(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 #
features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, #
the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea #
(10)party, an itemized description of the furniture of the #
Bartons’ living room, and a transcription (again anno-
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tated) of the ballad "The Oldham Weaver." The interest
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of this record is considerable, even though the method #
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 #
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
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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’ #
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
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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 #
that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on
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(45)his impaled insects― capture the characteristic responses
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of a generation to the new and crushing experience of #
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 #
(C) Qualified approval #
(D) Resigned acceptance #
(E) Mild irritation
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18. According to the passage, Mary Barton and the #
early novels of D. H. Lawrence share which of the #
following?
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(A) Depiction of the feelings of working-class families #
(B) Documentary objectivity about working-class
circumstances
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(C) Richly detailed description of working-class #
adjustment to urban life #
(D) Imaginatively structured plots about working-
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class characters
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(E) Experimental prose style based on working-
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 #
(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
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(D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the #
roof of his apartment building
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(E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill
under dangerous conditions #
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?
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(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
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(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
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(E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider
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22. Which of the following phrases could best be #
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
environment #
(B) the influence of Mary Barton on lawrence’s #
early work #
(C) the place of Mary Barton in the development #
of the English novel
(D) the extent of the poverty and physical #
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
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(E) lyrical
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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
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compensate for a doubling in atmospheric carbon diox-
ide, preventing a potentially disastrous planetwide temp-
erature increase. On the other hand, an increase in cirrus
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clouds could increase global warming.
(10) That clouds represented the weakest element in cli- #
mate models was illustrated by a study of fourteen such #
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 #
(15)not included. But when clouds were incorporated, a wide
range of forecasts was produced. With such discrepancies
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plaguing the models, scientists could not easily predict
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how quickly the world’s climate would change, nor could
they tell which regions would face dustier droughts or
deadlier monsoons.
24.The author of the passage is primarily concerned
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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
information about the effect of clouds on #
climate #
(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
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(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 #
other than clouds that should be included in
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the models #
26. It can be inferred that the primary purpose of the
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models included in the study discussed in the second
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paragraph of the passage was to
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(A) predict future changes in the world’s climate
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(B) predict the effects of cloud systems on the
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world’s climate
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(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
(E) estimate by how much the amount of carbon #
dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere will #
increase
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27. The information in the passage suggests that sci-
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entists would have to answer which of the following
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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?
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(B) How can cloud systems be encouraged to form
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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?
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(E) What proportion of the clouds in the atmosphere #
form over land masses? #
28. SUSPEND:
(A) force #
(B) split #
(C) tilt
(D) slide down
(E) let fall #
29. CREDULITY: #
(A) originality #
(B) skepticism #
(C) diligence #
(D) animation
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(E) stoicism #
30. MILD:
(A) toxic
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(B) uniform #
(C) maximal
(D) asymptomatic #
(E) acute #
31. IMPLEMENT: #
(A) distort
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(B) foil
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(C) overlook
(D) aggravate
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(E) misinterpret #
32. DIFFIDENCE::
(A) trustworthiness
(B) assertiveness #
(C) lack of preparation #
(D) resistance to change #
(E) willingness to blame
33. BYZANTINE:
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(A) symmetrical #
(B) variegated #
(C) discordant #
(D) straightforward
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(E) unblemished
34. PROCLIVITY:
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(A) confusion #
(B) deprivation
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(C) obstruction
(D) aversion #
(E) hardship
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35. PROTRACT:
(A) treat fairly
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(B) request hesitantly
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(C) take back
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(D) cut short
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(E) make accurate #
36. VAUNTING: #
(A) plucky
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(B) meek #
(C) chaste
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(D) cowardly #
(E) ardent #
37. HALE:
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(A) unenthusiastic
(B) staid #
(C) odious
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(D) infirm
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(E) uncharacteristic #
38. SEMINAL:
(A) derivative
(B) substantiated
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(C) reductive #
(D) ambiguous
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(E) extremist
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