2011年GRE北美模拟试题(1)

1. When an oppressed group revolts against a society, one must look for the ---forces that led to the group's ---that society.

(A) disparate .. acknowledgment of

(B) specific .. dependence on

(C) altered .. redistribution within

(D) focused .. interference with

(E) underlying .. alienation from

2. Every novel invites us to enter a world that is initially strange; our gradual and selective orientation to its manners---infants' ---to their environment.

(A) imitates.. welcome

(B) completes .. introduction

(C) resembles .. adjustment

(D) alters .. blindness

(E) reinforces .. resistance

3. Superficial differences between the special problems and techniques of the physical sciences and those of the biological sciences are sometimes cited as evidence for the ---of biology and for the claim that the methods of physics are therefore not adequate to biological inquiry.

(A) autonomy

(B) vitalism

(C) purposiveness

(D) obsolescence

(E) irrelevance

4. As the creation of new knowledge through science has become ---resistance to innovation has become less ---taking the form of inertia rather than direct attack.

(A) controversial .. sporadic

(B) institutionalized .. aggressive

(C) essential .. effective

(D) public .. circumspect

(E) suspect .. lively

5. Lizzie was a brave woman who could dare to incur a great danger for an adequate ----.

(A) risk

(B) combat

(C) object

(D) event

(E) encounter

6. Rousseau's short discourse, a work that was generally ---the cautious, unadorned prose of the day, deviated from that prose style in its

---discussion of the physical sciences.

(A) critical of .. lengthy

(B) superior to .. austere

(C) bolder than .. intelligent

(D) consistent with .. unrestrained

(E) influenced by .. uninspired

7. Certainly Murray's preoccupation with the task of editing the Oxford English Dictionary begot a kind of monomania, but it must be regarded as a ---or at least an innocuous one.

(A) tame

(B) tendentious

(C) meretricious

(D) beneficent

(E) sincere

8. GARBLED: COMPREHEND::

(A) convoluted : tangle

(B) obscured : recognize

(C) emancipated : free

(D) expunged : excite

(E) determined : placate

9. HEAT : CALORIMETER::

(A) distance : odometer

(B) gasoline : tachometer

(C) wind : velocity

(D) rain : humidity

(E) ocean : tide

10. ALLY : WAY ::

(A) patriot: brawl

(B) crew: ship

(C) spouse : marriage

(D) peer : class

(E) teammate : game
11. EAVESDROP: CONVERSATION::

(A) shoplift: customer

(B) trespass: property

(C) gossip: discussion

(D) arrest: suspect

(E) subpoena: witness

12. PALPABLE: TOUCH::

(A) malleable: gild

(B) palatable: ingest

(C) pliable: mold

(D) edible: cook

(E) appreciable: please

13. SUBMERGE: WATER::

(A) imprison : walls

(B) immolate: fire

(C) inter: earth

(D) freeze: ice

(E) besiege: army

14. RUTHLESS: MERCY::

(A) careless: duty

(B) pallid: subtlety

(C) insipid: flavor

(D) onerous: difficulty

(E) assiduous: energy

15. MINION: DEPENDENY::

(A) dilettante: artist

(B) groveler: petitioner

(C) coward: criminal

(D) consul: emissary

(E) vicar: curate
16. PANEGRYIC: PRAISE::

(A) oration: prediction

(B) fiat: condescension

(C) manifesto: indecision

(D) stutter: hesitation

(E) valediction: farewell

Extended debate concerning the exact point of origin of individual folktales told by Afro-American slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analysis of the tales meaning and function. Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found. Afro-American slaves did not borrow tales indiscriminately from the Whites among whom they lived. Black people were most influenced by those Euro-American tales whose functional meaning and aesthetic appeal had the greatest similarity to the tales with deep roots in their ancestral homeland. Regardless of where slave tales came from, the essential point is that, with respect to language, delivery, details of characterization, and plot, slaves quickly made them their own.

17. The author claims that most studies of folktales told by Afro-American slaves are inadequate because the studies

(A) fail to recognize any possible EuroAmerican influence on the folktales

(B) do not pay enough attention to the features of a folktale that best reveal an African influence

(C) overestimate the number of folktales brought from Africa by the slaves

(D) do not consider the fact that a folktale can be changed as it is retold many times

(E) oversimplify the diverse and complex traditions of the slaves ancestral homeland

18. The author's main purpose is to

(A) create a new field of study

(B) discredit an existing field of study

(C) change the focus of a field of study

(D) transplant scholarly techniques from one field of study to another

(E) restrict the scope of a burgeoning new field of study

19. The passage suggests that the author would regard which of the following areas of inquiry as most likely to reveal the slaves' cultural continuities with Africa?

(A) The means by which Blacks disseminated their folktales in nineteenth-century America

(B) Specific regional differences in the styles of delivery used by the slaves in telling folktales

(C) The functional meaning of Black folktales in the lives of White children raised by slaves

(D) The specific way the slaves used folktales to impart moral teachings to their children

(E) The complexities of plot that appear most frequently in the slaves' tales