[外语类试卷]GRE（VERBAL）模拟试卷21及答案与解析.doc

1、GRE（ VERBAL）模拟试卷 21及答案与解析 SECTION 1 Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a wh

2、ole. 1 Despite the_her work received, her particular emphasis did not gain many adherents for more than a generation. （ A） tolerance （ B） plaudits （ C） dismissal （ D） criticism （ E） sinecures 2 When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we_the man as if he were the great

3、est athlete we had ever seen: a superman, _ , a demigod walking the earth. （ A） hymned a nonpareil （ B） exasperated a dabbler （ C） inveighed a genius （ D） lauded an obscurantist （ E） apostatized a commoner 3 There was an oddly_inflection to his speech, some said, a sense of merely going through the

4、motions. （ A） roguish （ B） lackadaisical （ C） mellifluous （ D） acerbic （ E） reserved 4 Unfortunately, zealots not only fight with members of other faiths who challenge their claim to a monopoly of absolute truth, but they also_their co-religionists for interpreting a tradition differently or for hol

5、ding_beliefs. （ A） persecute heterodox （ B） honor heretical （ C） restitute parochial （ D） lambaste perfidious （ E） defend secular 5 Reading the epic known to us as the Iliad is vastly different from the_experience of hearing and seeing it performed, for in place of the bards_flow of sound and image,

6、 the reader beholds a mute tome, the size of longish novel. （ A） apocryphal prehistoric （ B） preliterate galvanic （ C） auditory insipid （ D） succinct abrupt （ E） scholarly abstract 6 Supporters praised the governors action as a speedy and judicious solution, but critics condemned it by the same toke

7、n as_and unfairly influenced by recent events. （ A） indisposed （ B） verbose （ C） irrelevant （ D） hasty （ E） imperious 7 To implausibly suggest that this erstwhile_of financial_was enriching himself at public expense is to shake the very foundations of the new Republic. （ A） victor legerdemain （ B） e

8、xemplar probity （ C） font calumny （ D） enemy cunning （ E） apprentice reproach SECTION 2 Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to th

9、at expressed in the original pair. 8 ASETI: SELF-DENIAL: （ A） pacifist : amicability （ B） reactionary : vehemence （ C） busybody : intrusiveness （ D） purist : transcendence （ E） bohemian: orthodoxy 9 POSEUR: UNAFFECTED: （ A） interlocutor : accessible （ B） teetotaler: abstemious （ C） soprano : pretent

10、ious （ D） provincial : cosmopolitan （ E） prig : amenable 10 DILETTANTE : COMMITMENT: （ A） nonentity : consequence （ B） gourmand : self-restraint （ C） minimalist : elegance （ D） authoritarian : disregard （ E） malingerer : cunning 11 DITCH: CANYON : （ A） geyser : spring （ B） burrow: cavern （ C） penins

11、ula : estuary （ D） archipelago : island （ E） ridge : furrow 12 MAWKISH: SENTIMENTAL: （ A） noisy : cacophonous （ B） convivial : undemonstrative （ C） acerbic : piquant （ D） abundant: fulsome （ E） cloying : sweet 13 RICKETY : FURNITURE: （ A） petrified : forest （ B） alloyed : metal （ C） ragged : clothin

12、g （ D） speckled : egg （ E） spavined : insect 14 KNEAD : MALLEABLE : （ A） vent : respiratory （ B） circumscribe : visible （ C） brook : unique （ D） penetrate : permeable （ E） muster : tenacious 15 NEFARIOUS : WICKEDNESS: （ A） sprightly : fastidiousness （ B） conspicuous: stealth （ C） foolhardy : heterod

13、oxy （ D） generous : liberality （ E） inflammatory: acidity 16 CORRECTIVE : AMEND : （ A） emollient : ameliorate （ B） tautology: vindicate （ C） paradigm : exemplify （ D） anthology : diversify （ E） appendage : concatenate SECTION 3 Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on

14、 its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 16 Trends toward reform highlight the international appeal of decentralization, but the realities of educational and soci

15、al inequity remain the same or worsen even when such reforms are put into place, especially in the ways in which Line educational quality is being defined. A major question remains: if education (5) continues to be ineffective in achieving greater social good, what role has the dialectic between glo

16、bal and local to play in the eminent failure of education for social transformation? All too often the work of sociologists criticizes the hegemony of the globalizing idea and its relationship to local forms of belief and practice, while blithely assuming that the indigenous challenge and respond to

17、 (10) the external meta-narrative but retain a fundamental innocence with respect to that narrative. I argue that instead cultures, nations, and societies utilize the global theme to further reinforce and create new categories of the exotic and the other-even within their own borders-to support inte

18、rnally generated and maintained inequities. 17 The primary purpose of the passage is to （ A） build a case for increasing efforts to improve educational quality in indigenous societies （ B） advocate an alternative to the explanation that the inequity of indigenous societies has resulted from outside

19、forces （ C） explain the failure of educational reforms in increasing the international appeal of decentralization of global authority （ D） suggest the type of response to globalization that would help create social equity in indigenous societies （ E） argue against the definition of globalization cur

20、rently advocated by sociologists 18 According to the passage, which of the following is an assumption that underpins most sociological theories on globalization? （ A） Indigenous societies reject the process of globalization and do not perpetuate it on a smaller scale. （ B） Existing systems of social

21、 transformation are ill-equipped to deal with the effects of globalization. （ C） The beliefs and practices of indigenous cultures often involve the category of the other. （ D） Globalization is the primary cause of social inequity in indigenous societies. （ E） Education in indigenous societies is usu

22、ally ineffective in achieving greater social good. 19 According to the passage, which of the following is true about the way globalization has influenced indigenous cultures? （ A） It has created nearly unanimous support for the concept of decentralization. （ B） It has maintained the innocence of ind

23、igenous societies, by isolating them from societies considered less egalitarian. （ C） It has caused indigenous cultures to bolster the category of the exotic within their own societies. （ D） It has inspired optimism about the prospects of greater social equity in the future. （ E） It has led to the f

24、ailure of education to challenge globalizations meta- narrative. 20 The passage suggests that which of the following had occurred as a result of educations failure to diminish social inequity? （ A） Local forms of belief and practice have begun to erode and disappear in indigenous societies where dec

25、entralization has not taken place. （ B） The appeal of globalization has recently begun to wane among certain factions of indigenous societies. （ C） Sociologists have interpreted the failure as a sign of the globalizing ideas domination over indigenous societies. （ D） The hegemony of the globalizing

26、idea has spread from societies with fewer social inequities to societies with greater social inequities. （ E） Educational quality has diminished in all societies, including those which support the notion of globalization. 20 Feminist critics have long debated the extent to which gender plays a role

27、in the creation and interpretation of texts. Androgynist poetics, rooted in mid-Victorian womens writing, contends that the creative mind is sexless, but Line from the 1970s on, many feminist critics rejected the idea of the genderless (5) mind, finding that the imagination cannot evade conscious or

28、 unconscious structures of gender which is part of culture-determination where separating imagination from the self is impossible. The Female Aesthetic, expressing a unique female consciousness in literature, spoke of the “female vernacular, the Mother Tongue, a powerful but (10) neglected womens cu

29、lture. “Virginia Woolf discusses how a woman writer seeks within herself “the pools, the depths, the dark places where the largest fish slumber,“ inevitably colliding against her own sexuality to confront “something about the body, about the passions. “ Accessible to men and women alike, but represe

30、nting female sexual morphology, this method sought a way of (15) writing which literally embodied the female, thereby fighting the subordinating, linear style of classification or distinction. It must be admitted that there are problems with the Female Aesthetic that feminist critics themselves reco

31、gnized. For instance, they avoided defining exactly what constituted their writing style, as any definition would then (20) categorize it and safely subsume it as a genre under the linear patriarchal structure-its very restlessness and ambiguity defied identification as part of its identity. Some fe

32、minists and women writers could feel excluded by the surreality of the Female Aesthetic and its stress on the biological forms of female experience, which also bear close resemblance to essentialism. Men may (25) try their hand at writing womans bodies, but according to the feminist critique, only a

33、 woman whose very biology gave her an edge could read these texts successfully-a position which, worst of all, risked marginalization of womens literature and theory. Later, Gynocritics attempted to resolve some of these problems, by (30) agreeing that womens literature lay as the central concern fo

34、r feminist criticism but rejecting the concept of an essential female identity and style, while simultaneously seeking to revise Freudian structures by emphasizing a Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughters bond to her mother inscribes the key factor in gender identity. Matriarchal values dissolve in

35、tergenerational conflicts (35) and build upon a female tradition of literature rather than the struggle of Oedipus and Lais at the crossroads. Lastly and most promising in its achievement of a delicate balance are developments of an over-arching gender theory, which considers gender, both male and f

36、emale, as a social construction built on biological differences. Gender theory proposes to explore ideological (40) inscription and the literary effects of the sex/gender system, opening up the literary theory stage and bringing in questions of masculinity into feminist theory. Taking gender as a fu

37、ndamental analytic category brings feminist criticism from the margin to the center, though it risks depoliticizing the study of women. 21 Which of the following titles best summarizes the content of the passage? （ A） A Historical Overview of Feminist Literary Criticism （ B） Oedipus and Lais: The St

38、ruggle between Masculine and Feminine Texts （ C） The Precarious Feminist Compromise in Politics and Art （ D） A New Theory of Literary Criticism （ E） Establishing New Feminist Concepts of Gender 22 It can be inferred from the passage that the Female Aesthetic school of literary criticism espoused whi

39、ch of the following views? . The greatest womens and mens writing are indistinguishable in quality and style. . Womens writing is characterized by an essential style that male writers are unlikely to achieve. . A womens writing style is more likely to be politically effective if it is precisely defi

40、ned. （ A） only （ B） only （ C） and only （ D） and only （ E） , , and 23 The author specifically mentions all of the following as issues that have been considered in the evolution of feminist literary criticism EXCEPT （ A） The place of women in the literary canon （ B） The question of culture in determin

41、ing gender （ C） The role of Freud in theorizing gender identity （ D） The effect of biological differences on textual style （ E） The political dangers of isolating womens texts 24 The author refers to the “largest fish“ (lines 11-12) primarily in order to （ A） suggest a refuge from the long history o

42、f sexist literary criticism （ B） offer a sense of political purpose that can only be awakened through literature （ C） articulate the possibility for escape from the confines of gendered identity （ D） reference a unique feminist identity that must be extracted somehow from the body （ E） indicate a so

43、urce of the patriarchal identification traditionally suffered by women writers 25 According to the passage, the greatest risk posed by the feminist theories, like the Female Aesthetic, which posit the existence of an “essential“ or non-constructed gender is in （ A） creating a dead-end for feminist l

44、iterary criticism by attacking the notion of an androgynist poetics （ B） reinforcing sexist notions that women cannot emulate the literary style of men （ C） pushing feminist writing out of the mainstream by arguing that men are unable to full comprehend womens writing （ D） relying too heavily on the

45、 theories of Freud, under which identity is the product of biology （ E） escaping identification with the literary canon through the use of a fluid and protean literary style 26 It can be inferred that the author would define the “delicate balance“ mentioned in the last paragraph as the equilibrium b

46、etween （ A） establishing ties between generations of women writers and fighting patriarchal influence （ B） actively fighting and passively documenting the literary effects of the sex/gender system （ C） assigning the proper weight to the concept of gender as socially constructed and biologically inhe

47、rited （ D） avoiding marginalization on the political fringes and de-politicization in the political mainstream （ E） avoiding submitting the patriarchal system of criticism while also avoiding alienating the public 27 It can be inferred from the passage that the author would most likely describe the

48、evolution of feminist literary theory as （ A） a gradual movement from the idea of genderless writing to a writing that originates in the womans body （ B） a shift between adversarial criticism to more tolerant varieties of criticism （ C） a regular fluctuation between the idea of genderless and gender

49、ed writing that gradually settles on a compromise （ D） a more or less constant pursuit of the goal of establishing a unique niche for women s literature （ E） an initial vehement rejection of the notion of genderless writing, which has steadily attenuated SECTION 4 Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters followed by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase th