GRE考试考前冲刺试卷
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一、单项选择题(共50题,每题2分。每题的备选项中,只有一个最符合题意)
1、The articles that he wrote ran the gamut from the serious to the lighthearted, from objective to the________ , from the innocuous to the________ .
    A:constant ...evil
    B:casual ... realistic
    C:ridiculous ... remote
    D:argumentative ... hostile
    E:incapacitated … conditioned
2、The artists of the Chinese avant-garde have used Western styles________ and meaningfully to accomplish artistic ends of their own.
    A:obsequiously
    B:shamefully
    C:cannily
    D:fortuitously
    E:problematically
3、The attorney’s vibrant voice and________ sense of timing were as useful to him as his prodigious preparation, attention to detail, and________ of the law.
    A:deficient ... conception
    B:excellent ... ignorance
    C:shaky ... command
    D:outstanding ... mastery
    E:impeccable ... deprecation
4、The audience failed to warm to the candidate, whose speech contained nothing but empty promises,________ , and clichés.
    A:candor
    B:platitudes
    C:nuances
    D:ingenuity
    E:threats
5、The bank teller’s________ of the funds was not discovered until the auditors examined the accounts.
    A:extradition
    B:embezzlement
    C:patronage
    D:subordination
    E:verification
6、The benefits of telecommuting-working at home by means of various electronic communication devices rather than________ commuting to an office-have been so clearly and consistently________ that telework is on the rise in virtually every country with a functioning telephone system.
    A:personally ... forgotten
    B:instantly ... underrated
    C:physically ... demonstrated
    D:painfully ... denounced
    E:intermittently ... discredited
7、The best Eskimo carvings of all ages seem to possess a powerful ability to________ the great barriers of language and time and communicate________ with us.
    A:leap over ... temporarily
    B:reach across ... directly
    C:rise above ... verbally
    D:pass through ... infrequently
    E:leave behind ... anonymously
8、The biochemistry instructor urged that we take particular care of the________ chemicals to prevent their evaporation.
    A:insoluble
    B:superficial
    C:extraneous
    D:volatile
    E:insipid
9、The biographer may not have________ the depths of her subject’s self-contradictory character, but she has traced its intriguingly complex________ .
    A:plumbed ... tedium
    B:sounded ... surface
    C:thwarted ... background
    D:reached ... insipidity
    E:disregarded ... psyche
10、The biographer of Tennyson is confronted with the problem, rarely solved, of how to make a basically________ life interesting.
    A:dramatic
    B:bewildering
    C:intriguing
    D:controversial
    E:uneventful
11、The Apache are a________ society, where husbands typically move into wives’ dwellings and women take the leadership role in family affairs.
    A:sedentary
    B:defunct
    C:fragmented
    D:matrilineal
    E:xenophobic
12、The Battle of Lexington was not, as most of us have been taught, a________ rising of individual fanners, but was instead a tightly organized, well-planned event.
    A:premeditated
    B:cautionary
    C:spontaneous
    D:coordinated
    E:theoretical
13、The Cabinet member’s resignation was not a total________ : rumors of his imminent departure had been making the rounds in Washington for a week.
    A:withdrawal
    B:success
    C:shock
    D:eclipse
    E:pretense
14、The TV news magazine sits precisely at the________ of information and entertainmen
t, for while it is not a silly sitcom, it is not a documentary either.
    A:foundation
    B:juncture
    C:cessation
    D:institution
    E:eclipse
15、The Turner Network’s new production is an absorbing Heart of Darkness, watchful, surreptitious, almost________ as it waits to________ our emotions.
    A:lighthearted ... cater to
    B:melancholy ... cheer up
    C:mercenary ... pay for
    D:predatory ... pounce on
    E:furtive ... figure out
16、The abundance and diversity of insects is the cumulative effect of an extraordinarily low________ rate: bugs endure.