GRE填空练习1

1. Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ----signs of adolescent anxiety.
(A) prophetic
(B) normal
(C) monotonous
(D) virtual
(E) typical

2.The spellings of many Old English words have been----in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.
(A) preserved
(B) shortened
(C) preempted
(D) revised
(E) improved

3. Although Johnson ____great enthusiasm for his employees' project, in reality his interest in the project was so ____as to be almost nonexistent.
(A)generated…redundant
(B)displayed…preemptive
(C) expected…indiscriminate
(D)feigned…perfunctory
(E)demanded…dispassionate

4. However _____ they might be, Roman poets were bound to have some favorite earlier author whom they would ___.
(A)subservient…imitate
(B)independent…inspire
(C) original…emulate
(D)creative…admire
(E) talented…neglect

5. The "imposter syndrome" often afflicts those who fear that true self-disclosure will lower them in others' esteem; rightly handled, however, _____may actually _____one's standing.
(A) willfulness…consolidate
(B) imposture…undermine
(C)affectation…jeopardize
(D) candor…enhance
(E) mimicry…efface

6. The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and----such illnesses.
(A)disguise
(B)impede
(C)constrain
(D)precipitate
(E)consummate

7. In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values was regarded as----, even as a sign of madness.
(A) adventurous
(B) frivolous
(C) willful
(D) impermissible
(E) irrational

8. Literature is inevitably a ------ rather than -------medium for the simple reason that writers interpose their own vision between the reader and reality.
(A)distorting.. a neutral
(B)transparent.. an opaque
(C)colorful.. a drab
(D)flawless. .an inexact
(E)flexible. a rigid

9. The proponents of recombinant DNA research have decided to----federal regulation of their work; they hope that by making this compromise they can forestall proposed state and local controls that might be even stiffer.
(A) protest
(B)institute
(C)deny

(D) encourage
(E)disregard


10. Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still -----on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a------
enterprise.
(A)scarce. . common
(B)accessible.. marginal
(C)unidentified.. subsidized
(D)conserved . . public
(E)plentiful.. profitable

11. Clearly refuting skeptic, researchers have----not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what theory----it should do.
(A) doubted.. warranted
(B) estimated.. accepted
(C) demonstrated.. predicted
(D) assumed.. deduced
(E) supposed.. asserted

12. During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, _____ both the strength to work and many of the specific skills they once possessed.
(A) regaining
(B) denying
(C) pursuing
(D) insuring
(E) losing

13.It is to the novelist's credit that all of the episodes in her novel are presented realistically, without any ______ or playful super-natural tricks.
(A) elucidation
(B)discrimination
(C) artlessness
(D) authenticity
(E) whimsy

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