1、GRE（ VERBAL）基础填空模拟试卷 39及答案与解析 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 that expressed in the original pair. 1 The reclusi
2、ve clergyman may have lived and died in melancholy, but this doesnt seem to have (i)_ his genius in any way. On the contrary, we find ourselves wondering whether his genius wasnt (ii)_ in some mysterious way by his mood. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. influenced D. served B. hampered E. controlled C. trigg
3、ered F. identified 2 As Ellen Donkin explains, in eighteenth-century England, writing plays (i)_ women. Even when the (ii)_ meant that playwriting did not bring personal fame, the work nevertheless enabled them to present their own views to the public and offered the possibility of acquiring capital
4、. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. empowered D. use of a pseudonym B. overextended E. lack of a producer C. impressed F. poor remuneration 3 Many of the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the countys solid waste plan have done so not because they necessarily (i)_ incinerators, but because they are
5、 (ii)_to narrow their waste-disposal options. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. question D. willing B. favor E. eager C. oppose F. loath 4 Although movie critic Pauline Kael had a distaste for sycophancy, she also had a need for (i)_, as a consequence of these competing feeling, she sent very (ii)_ signals to
6、 friends and colleagues. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. solitude D. direct B. obeisance E. subtle C. clarity F. mixed 5 The museums compelling new architectural exhibition looks at eleven projects around the world that have had major (i)_ impacts despite modest budgets. It is part of (ii)_ in the museums a
7、rchitecture and design department, which in the past has championed architectures artistic value over its real-world consequences. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. social D. an emphasis on theory B. aesthetic E. a shift in philosophy C. critical F. a rejection of pragmatism 6 Nordhaus predict that in the fut
8、ure we will increasingly be (i)_ ecological problems like global warming rather than (ii)_ them. We may, for example, make some headway in limiting emissions that contribute to warming, but much of our work will be in adapting to ecological problems and alleviating their effects. Blank (i) Blank (ii
9、) A. managing D. solving B. analyzing E. declining C. transcending F. mitigating 7 Despite having only recently learned to walk, toddlers make the most (i) _ dance students. Their joy in movement is so pure, so complete, and so (ii)_. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. skilled D. futile B. inattentive E. irrel
10、evant C. delightful F. contagious 8 Tagore had a sharply defined sense of the (i)_ of scientific inquiry. The fact that science dealt in statistics and numbers, that its logic was probabilistic, meant that the domain of moral questions (ii)_ it: moral questions, for Tagore, required certainties, not
11、 probabilities. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. irrationality D. guarded over B. limit E. lay outside C. futility F. was subject to 9 Many of the unusual behaviors attributed to crows such as drinking coffee or presenting gifts to people who feed them are based on (i) _ and therefore fall into the category
12、of (ii) _ rather than science. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. long-term observations D. anecdote B. controlled experiments E. speculation C. secondhand testimony F. hypothesis 10 Recent scholarship has questioned the (i)_ of tropical forests around the world. Archaeologists have shown, for example, that th
13、e largest contiguous tract of what was thought to be virgin rain forest in the southern Amazon had been transformed into a cultural parkland before European contact, and many of the forest islands in West Africas savanna forest transition zone are (ii)_ as well. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. diversity D.
14、isolated B. naturalness E. endangered C. sustainability F. anthropogenic 11 The research found that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view that competence and warmth are (i) _: when they perceive a person to be highly capable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be (
15、ii) _. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. equally important D. ambitious B. mutually reinforcing E. unfeeling C. inversely related F. disingenuous 12 Mr. Stevens found that home schooling, far from representing (i)_ philosophy, (ii)_ some of the most widely accepted education ideas: that children should be tre
16、ated as individuals, taught in small numbers, and given a measure of discretion over their own learning. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. a benign D. overcomes B. an orthodox E. embodies C. an anomalous F. anticipates 13 So, perhaps the lesson is that rather than wanting their monarchy to (i) _ its modernize
17、d Scandinavian counterparts, the British public cherishes it most when it is most (ii) _. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. commend D. egalitarian B. discount E. anachronistic C. emulate F. regal 14 He was never (i) _: he was nothing if not (ii) _, so he forbore for the present to declare his passion. Blank (
18、i) Blank (ii) A. chivalrous D. boorish B. impetuous E. circumspect C. thoughtful F. spontaneous 15 One way to predict the effects of global climate change on an ecosystem is to extrapolate current trend in global change factors into the future. A (i) _of this method is that its predictions (ii) _ ac
19、tual observation, but the method also makes the questionable assumption that the future will resemble the present. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. virtue D. dispense with B. drawback E. derive from C. peculiarity F. improve upon 16 A (i)_ to disseminate the vast scientific knowledge of our time to nonscient
20、ists shows real (ii) _ the magnificent achievement humanity is capable of, like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse. Blank(i) Blank (ii) A. plan D. indifference to B. failure E. pretentious regarding C. willingness F. sympathy toward 17 So (i)_ is the reputation of the citys police
21、 force for (ii)_ that whenever a new police chief take office, he or she routinely promises to clean up the force. Blank(i) Blank (ii) A. persistent D. corruption B. recent E. efficiency C. discouraging F. inexperience 18 The (i)_ of molecular oxygen on Earth-sized planets around other stars in the
22、universe would not be (ii)_ sign of life: molecular oxygen can be a signature of photosynthesis (a biotic process) or merely of the rapid escape of water from the upper reaches of a planetary atmosphere (an abiotic process). Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. dearth D. a controversial B. presumption E. an unam
23、biguous C. detection F. a possible 19 Scientists said that cosmology was the field where the ratio of theory to data was (i)_: there was an abundance of theories, but almost no data. Recently, however, that ratio has flipped. A huge and ever-increasing amount of data has (ii)_ all theories but one.
24、Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. completely unknown D. eliminated B. nearly infinite E. supported C. always variable F. clarified 20 Invention was (i)_ the work of the ancient Greek historians, whose writings were filled with long and often purely fictitious speeches by great historical figures. The animatin
25、g force in historical writing was rhetoric rather than (ii)_. Even well into the eighteenth century, not a few historians continued to understand themselves as artists, given a license to invent. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. discouraged in D. eloquence B. a hallmark of E. evidence C. exceptional in F. im
26、agination 21 In aquatic environments, the herbicide atrazine is more likely to (i)_ developing amphibians when it is highly diluted than when it is much more concentrated, a new study suggests. Although counterintuitive, the finding is (ii)_ some past research on atrazine and studies show that other
27、 hormonally active compounds are most damaging at trace concentrations. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. supplant D. unanticipated given B. kill E. consistent with C. circumvent F. undiminished by 22 Mr. Billington, at times, can be a (i)_. For instance, he deplores the Royal Shakespeare Companys eight-and-a
28、-half-hour version of Nicholas Nickelby, which many found (ii)_. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. naysayer D. perplexing B. pushover E. unpredictable C. braggart F. absorbing 23 The history of the regions natural resources has been one of initial (i) _followed by (ii)_; as such the region has over time gone
29、from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. disappointment D. growing interdependence B. abundance E. draconian regulation C. conservation F. rapacious depletion 24 The author paints a rather dark picture of book publishing as a hidebound industry, one that is facin
30、g a profound change in its mode of production but is so (i) _ its past as to be (ii)_ opportunities offered by technological change. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. alienated from D. eager to exploit B. emboldened by E. unable to seize C. encumbered by F. forced to reconsider 25 It would be naive to treat r
31、emarks made in diaries or personal letters as giving especially candid access to historical truth or even as being expressions of the writers true state of mind, since the (i)_ for exaggeration and deception in those forms is virtually nonexistent. Diaries and letters are rarely sites for (ii)_. Bla
32、nk (i) Blank (ii) A. motivation D. premeditated manipulation B. penalty E. childish theatrics C. tendency F. balanced reflection GRE（ VERBAL）基础填空模拟试卷 39答案与解析 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 ph
33、rases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair. 1 【正确答案】 B， D 【试题解析】 空格 (i)： - 方程等号： but但是，反义重复； not，取反。 - 强词和对应： but前面说这个隐居的牧师忧伤地生，忧伤地死； but后面说这一点 (忧伤地生，忧伤地死 )不能以任何方式空格 (i)他的天赋， but前面说的是不好的事， but后面应该是好事，但是因为 not取反，所以空格 (i)应该填入一个负向词。
34、influence影响， hamper阻碍， trigger引发，答案选 B。 空格 (ii)： - 方 程等号：句号，同义重复。 - 强词和对应： whether not=whether，所以空格 (ii)之前的 not是可以忽略不看的。句号前说牧师的情绪没有阻碍他的天赋，句号后面应该表达同样的含义，而句号后面的 genius和句号前的 genius同义重复，句号后面的 his mood和句号前面的melancholy同义重复，所以空格 (ii)应填入含义为 not hamper的一个正向词。serve服务于， control控制， identify识别，答案选 D。 【知识模块】 填空双空
35、题 2 【正确答案】 A， D 【试题解析】 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号： meant意味着，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：空格 (ii)意味着编写剧本不能带来个人的名声，所以空格 (ii)是不能带来个人名声的一种方式。 use of a pseudonym使用假名， lack of a producer缺乏制作人， poor remuneration报酬匮乏，只有 D和名誉有关，所以答案选 D。 空格 (i)： - 方程等号：句号，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：第一句话和第二句话中间是句号连接，所以句间关系顺承。第二句的主句部分说：但是作品使得女性可 以向大众展示自己的观点，而且提供了获取收
36、益的可能性，说明写剧本让女性拥有了权力。所以空格 (i)应该填入一个让女性有权力的词。 empower赋予权力， overextend过度扩展， impress留下深刻印象。答案选 A。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 3 【正确答案】 B， F 【试题解析】 空格 (i)+空格 (ii)： - 方程等号： not because but because不是因为 而是因为 ，反义重复。 - 强词和对应：镇上的许多在县里固体废弃物计划中投票保留焚化炉的居民，之所以这么做，不 是因为他们必然空格 (i)焚化炉，而是因为他们空格 (ii)减少废弃物处理的选项。好人不是必然做好事，坏人不是必然做坏事，所以空
37、格 (i)和 keep是同义词，选择一个正向词。 question质疑， favor支持， oppose反对，答案选 B。空格 (ii)和空格 (i)根据 notbut 取反，所以空格 (ii)填入一个负向词， willing乐意，eager乐意， loath不情愿的，答案选 F。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 4 【正确答案】 B， F 【试题解析】 空格 (i)： - 方程等号： although尽 管，反义重复； distaste厌恶，取反；两次取反后取同。 - 强词和对应：尽管电影评论家 Pauline Kael厌恶拍马屁，但是她也同样需要空格(i)。 sycophancy根据 altho
38、ugh和 distaste两次取反后取同，空格 (i)应填入一个和sycophancy同方向的词。 solitude孤独， obeisance尊敬， clarity清晰，答案选B。 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号： as a consequence of由于，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：由于这些相互冲突的情感 (competing feeling)，所以她发出的信号都是空格 (ii)的，因此空格 (ii)和 competing取同，应填入一个表示 “矛盾 ”含义的词，direct直接的， subtle不直接的， mixed混合的。答案选 F。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 5 【正确答案】 A，
39、E 【试题解析】 空格 (i)： - 方程等号： new新， in the past过去，构成时间对比，反义重复。 - 强词和对应：在过去，博物馆的建筑和设计部门支持的建筑的艺术价值高于它的现实影响。因为 new和 in the past构成时间对比，取反，所以现 在的状态是建筑的现实影响更重要，空格 (i)应该和 real-world取同。 social社会的， aesthetic美学的， critical关键的。答案选 A。 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号：句号，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：第一句话说新的建筑展览关注十一个在世界各地的项目，这些项目有着重要的社会影响力。第二句话说过去博物馆
40、的建筑和设计部门支持的建筑的艺术价值高于它的现实影响。说明这个部门发生了变化，所以空格 (ii)应填入 “变了 ”。 an emphasis on theory强调理论， a shift in philosophy思想发生变化， a rejection of pragmatism拒绝实用。答案选 E。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 6 【正确答案】 A， D 【试题解析】 空格 (i)+空格 (ii)： - 方程等号：句号，两句话顺承，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：第一句话的结构是 A rather than B，而第二句话的结构是 C but D。因为两句话顺承，所以 A=D， B=C。 -对应到
41、题目中，空格 (i)对应的部分是 adapting to ecological problems and alleviating their effects适应生态问题并且减轻它们的影响。 manage管理， analyze分析， transcend超越。答案选 A。 - 同理，空格 (ii)对应的部分是 make some headway in limiting emissions在限制排放方面做出一些努力，限制排放温室气体应该是用来解决问题的。 solve解决，decline下降， mitigate减轻缓和，答案选 D。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 7 【正确答案】 C， F 【试题解析】
42、空格 (i)： - 方程等号： their他们，指示代词，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：指示代词所指代的对象在前文一定会出现，所以 joy一定在前文出现过，这里的 their指代前文的 toddlers，所以空格 (i)是 joy的同义词。 skilled娴熟的， inattentive不关注的， delightful欢乐的。答案选 C。 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号： and引导平行结构，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：这些孩子在运动中的欢乐是如此的纯粹，如此的彻底而且如此的空格 (ii)。所以空格 (ii)应该和 pure， complete同义重复，填入一个正向词。 futile无效的， i
43、rrelevant不重要的， contagious有感染力的。答案选 F。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 8 【正确答案】 B， E 【试题解析】 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号：冒号，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：冒号后面说道德问题，需要的是确定性，不是概率性。冒号前面说，科学的逻辑是概率性的，所以道德问题的领域就不能用科学来解决。空格 (ii)应填入一个负向词。 guard over看守， lay outside在 之外， was subject to臣服于。答案选 E。 空格 (i)： - 方程等 号：句号，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：第二句说科学处理的是统计和数字，不能解决道德问题，所以Ta
44、gore意识到科学调查应该是有局限性的，所以空格 (i)应该填入一个表示 “狭隘 ”含义的单词。 irrationality不理智， limit界限范围， futility无效。答案选 B。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 9 【正确答案】 C， D 【试题解析】 空格 (i)： - 方程等号： and并列，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：很多属于乌鸦的异常行为是基于空格 (i)因此落入空格 (ii)的范畴而非科学。由 and并列结 构可知两个空格是同方向的，又依据 rather than可知空格 (i)与 science是反义重复，应填入表示 “非科学的 ”。 long-term observatio
45、n长期观测， controlled experiment控制实验， secondhand testimony二手证词，答案选C。 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号： rather than=not，前后取反。 - 强词和对应： 因此这些东西属于空格 (ii)的范畴而非科学。本题的强词是 science指向空格 (ii)，依据 rather than取反，可知空格 (ii)应填入一个表示 “不科学 ”的词。anecdote奇闻轶事， speculation猜测， hypothesis理论假说，此时只能排除 F。再由 and可知两个空格同方向，答案选 D。 【知识模块】 填空双空题 10 【正确答案
46、】 B， F 【试题解析】 空格 (i)： - 方程等号： question质疑，反义重复；句号，同义重复；本空反义重复。 - 强词和对应：最近的科学研究质疑了全球热带雨林空格 (i)的特征。句号后没有but， yet， however， nevertheless因此可知两句话是同向。第二句话 逗号前的 3s版本是大片地从原始森林变成人工绿地。强词是 cultural，依据方程等号 question可知，空格 (i)应填入表示 “原始自然 ”的词。 diversity多样， naturalness自然，sustainability可持续性，答案选 B。 空格 (ii)： - 方程等号： andas well 也 ，同义重复。 - 强词和对应：原始森林变成人工绿地，并且非洲大草原也空格 (ii)了。强词是cultural指向空格，这个词在这里不仅仅表示文化，它的考法含义是 “有
