历年试题:美国GRE试题(二)
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　　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) ag美国GREssive

　　(C) differentiated

　　(D) mobile

　　(E) social

　　3. Joe spoke of superfluous and ---- matters with

　　exactly the same de美国GREe of intensity, as though for

　　him serious issues mattered neither more nor less

　　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

　　materials---- in order to substantiate his own

　　claims, while ---- information that points to other

　　possible conclusions.

　　(A) haphazardly.. deploying

　　(B) selectively.. disregarding

　　(C) cleverly.. weighing

　　(D) modestly.. refuting

　　(E) arbitrarily.. emphasizing

　　5. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to ----

　　volume and depth, they were able to replace the

　　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

　　(D) ineptitude

　　(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

　　(C) declined.. inopportune

　　(D) struggled.. unconscionable

　　(E) hesitated.. warranted

　　8. CONDUCTOR: INSTRUMENTALIST::

　　(A) director: actor

　　(B) sculptor: painter

　　(C) choreographer: composer

　　(D) virtuoso: amateur