老GRE填空题目（一）_GRE

老GRE填空题目（一）　　Section 1

　　1. Hydrogen is the _____ element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

　　(A) steadiest

　　(B) expendable

　　(D) final

　　(E) fundamental

　　2. Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural _____ doing so.

　　(A) aptitude for

　　(B) repugnance to

　　(D) ignorance of

　　(E) reaction after

　　3. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of _____.

　　(A) maturity

　　(B) fiction

　　(D) art

　　(E) brilliance

　　4. The primary criterion for _____ a school is its recent performance: critics are _____ to extend credit for earlier victories.

　　(A) evaluating .. prone

　　(B) investigating .. hesitant

　　(D) improving .. eager

　　(E) administering .. persuaded

　　5. Number theory is rich in problems of an especially _____ sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but _____ difficult to solve.

　　(A) cryptic.. deceptively

　　(B) spurious.. equally

　　(D) elegant.. rarely

　　(E) vexing ..notoriously

　　6. In failing to see that the justice's pronouncement merely _____ previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk _____ the scope of the justice's judgment.

　　(A) synthesized.. limited

　　(B) overturned.. misunderstood

　　(D) qualified.. overemphasized

　　(E) recapitulated.. defined

　　7. When theories formerly considered to be _____ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human _____.

　　(A) disinterested.. constructions

　　(B) callous.. errors

　　(D) convincing.. imperatives

　　(E) unassailable.. fantasies

　　Section 2

　　1. Although the minuet appeared simple, its ______ steps had to be studied very carefully beforethey could be gracefully ______ in public.

　　(A) progressive.. revealed

　　(B) intricate.. executed

　　(D) minute.. discussed

　　(E) entertaining.. stylized

　　2. The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown were ______not only because these results challenged old assumptions but also because they called the______ methodology into question.

　　(A) provocative.. prevailing

　　(B) predictable.. contemporary

　　(D) intriguing.. projected

　　(E) specious.. original

　　3. Despite the ______ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize "popculture" as a key for ______ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.

　　(A) antipathy.. entangling

　　(B) discernment.. evaluating

　　(D) skepticism.. deciphering

　　(E) enthusiasm.. symbolizing

　　4. In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values wasregarded as ______, even as a sign of madness.

　　(A) adventurous

　　(B) frivolous

　　(D) impermissible

　　(E) irrational

　　5. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many youngartists received her patronage.

　　(A) connoisseur

　　(B) critic

　　(D) scourge

　　(E) judge

　　6. Because outlaws were denied ______ under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand againstthem with legal _____.

　　(A) propriety.. authority

　　(B) protection.. impunity

　　(D) rights.. collaboration

　　(E) provisions.. validity

　　7. Rather than enhancing a country's security, the successful development of nuclear weaponscould serve at first to increase that country’s ______.

　　(A) boldness

　　(B) influence

　　(D) moderation

　　(E) vulnerability

　　Section 3

　　1. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it _____ someproblems, it also produced new _____.

　　(A) clarified.. data

　　(B) eased.. interpretations

　　(D) caused.. hypotheses

　　(E) revealed.. inconsistencies

　　2. During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, ______ both the strength towork and many of the specific skills they once possessed.

　　(A) regaining

　　(B) denying

　　(D) insuring

　　(E) losing

　　3. The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history;

　　consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of ____ facts is _____ flawed.

　　(A) demographic.. intrinsically

　　(B) ecological.. marginally

　　(D) psychological.. philosophically

　　(E) political.. demonstratively

　　4. It is puzzling to observe that Jones's novel has recently been criticized for its _____ structure,since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious _____ is its relentlesslyrigid,indeed schematic, framework.

　　(A) attention to.. preoccupation

　　(B) speculation about.. characteristic

　　(D) violation of.. contradiction

　　(E) lack of.. flaw

　　5. It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the character of the codes, onthe other hand, can often be _____ .

　　(A) predictable

　　(B) unexpected

　　(D) explicit

　　(E) confusing

　　6. The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received_____by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with _____ orders ofexperience.

　　(A) quietly.. significant

　　(B) enthusiastically.. shifting

　　(D) sympathetically.. distinct

　　(E) contentiously.. realistic

　　7. For some time now, _____ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction thateverybody has an angle is considered wisdom.

　　(A) rationality

　　(B) flexibility

　　(D) disinterestedness

　　(E) insincerity

　　Section 4

　　1. The _______ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the newexpansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing, helped to nurture the ______ of popularliterature.

　　(A) building.. mistrust

　　(B) reappearance.. display

　　(D) selection.. influence

　　(E) emergence.. rise

　　2. Although ancient tools were ______ preserved, enough have survived to allow us todemonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally ______ progress through prehistory.

　　(A) partially.. noticeable

　　(B) superficially.. necessary

　　(D) rarely.. continual

　　(E) needlessly.. incessant

　　3. In part of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so ______ that you can walk off thecoast and not know you are over the hidden sea.

　　(A) permanently

　　(B) imperceptibly

　　(D) precariously

　　(E) slightly

　　4. Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a naturalprocess of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ______ signs of adolescentanxiety.

　　(A) prophetic

　　(B) normal

　　(D) virtual

　　(E) typica

　　5. An investigation that is ______ can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, buttypically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.

　　(A) timely

　　(B) unguided

　　(D) uncomplicated

　　(E) subjective

　　6. Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmannneglected to neutralize, by some ______ gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers werebound to feel because of his ______ the high and mighty.

　　(A) quixotic.. intrigue with

　　(B) enigmatic.. familiarity with

　　(D) salutary.. questioning of

　　(E) unfeigned.. sympathy for

　　7. In a ______ society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a sensitive and idealistic person tomake the kinds of ______ decisions that alone spell success as it is defined by such a society.

　　(A) bureaucratic.. edifying

　　(B) pragmatic.. hardheaded

　　(D) competitive.. evenhanded

　　(E) modern.. dysfunctional

　　Section 5

　　1. Her ______ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she hasalways been willing to assist those who are in need.

　　(A) intemperance

　　(B) intolerance

　　(D) diffidence

　　(E) frugality

　　2. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most stronglyagainst the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are ______ would beexpected to be very ______, but, surprisingly, they are not.

　　(A) lethal.. rare

　　(B) untreated.. dangerous

　　(D) new.. perplexing

　　(E) widespread.. acute

　　3. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been______ by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy's underlying assumptions.

　　(A) supplemented

　　(B) undermined

　　(D) diverted

　　(E) redeemed

　　4. During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed______, without necessary relation to what had gone before.

　　(A) tedious

　　(B) melodious

　　(D) compelling

　　(E) cautious

　　5. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears ______, since themechanical nature of classical physics does not ______ creative reasoning, the very ability thathad made the formulation of classical principles possible.

　　(A) anomalous.. allow for

　　(B) abstract.. speak to

　　(D) enduring.. value

　　(E) contradictory.. exclude

　　6. During the 1960's assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of itas a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread ______ it as an oppressive and bankrupt onewhose ______ was both imminent and welcome.

　　(A) flight from.. restitution

　　(B) fascination with.. corruption

　　(D) censure of.. dissolution

　　(E) relinquishment of.. ascent

　　7. Documenting science’s ______ philosophy would be ______, since it is almost axiomatic thatmany philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.

　　(A) distrust of.. elementary

　　(B) influence on.. superfluous

　　(D) dependence on.. difficult

　　(E) differences from.. impossible

老GRE填空题目（一）

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