美国GRE模拟试题:美国研究生入学考试试题（三）
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　　美国GRE模拟试题：美国研究生入学考试试题（三）

　　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