GRE填空练习2

1 The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly----source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.
(A)Exploited
(B)quantifiable
(C)controversial
(D)inexhaustible
(E)remarkable

2 A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling _____ the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
(A) facilitates
(B) averts
(C) neutralize
(D) implies
(E) represses

3 It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever----others, in the end, all his----has only worked against him.
(A) dedicating.. self-procession
(B) leading.. self-righteousness
(C) consigning.. self-adulation
(D) relegating.. self-sacrifice
(E) condemning.. self-analysis

4 The hierarchy of medical occupations is in many ways a----system; its strata remain----and the practitioners in them have very little vertical mobility.
(A) health.. skilled
(B) delivery.. basic
(C) regimental.. flexible
(D) training.. inferior
(E) cast.. intact

5 Although ancient tools were----preserved, enough have survived to allow us to demonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally----progress through prehistory.

(A) partially.. noticeable
(B) superficially.. necessary
(C) unwittingly.. documented
(D) rarely.. continual
(E) needlessly.. incessant


6 It is puzzling to observe that Jones's novel has recently been criticized for its______structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious_______is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework..
(A) attention to.. preoccupation
(B) speculation about.. characteristic
(C) parody of.. disparity
(D) violation of.. contradiction
(E) lack of.. flaw

7 Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater----their efforts to build a progressive party than the----of the progressives already elected to the legislature.
(A) support for.. advocacy
(B) threat to.. promise
(C) benefit from.. success
(D) obstacle to.. resistance
(E) praise for.. reputation

8 During the 1960's assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread----it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose----was both imminent and welcome.
(A) flight from.. restitution
(B) fascination with.. corruption
(C) rejection of.. vogue
(D) censure of.. dissolution
(E) relinquishment of.. ascent

9 Until the current warming trend exceeds the range of normal climatic fluctuations, there will be, among scientists, considerable----the possibility that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 can cause long-term warming effects.
(A) interest in
(B) uncertainty about
(C) enthusiasm for
(D) worry about
(E) experimentation on

10 The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are evidence that the medieval -------natural settings had been ----- and that the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.
(A)fear of.. exorcised
(B)concerns about..regained
(C)affection for.. surmounted
(D)disinterest in.. alleviated
(E)enthusiasm for.. confronted
11 Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great advances in clinical practice, it did not represent a----- bacterial illness, for there are some bacteria that cannot be ------- treated with antibiotics.
(A)breakthrough in.. consistently
(B)panacea for.. effectively
(C)neglect of.. efficiently
(D)reexamination of.. conventionally
(E)resurgence of.. entirely

12 Eric was frustrated because, although he was adept at making lies sound ----- when telling the truth, he ----- the power to make himself believed.

(A) plausible.. lacked
(B) convincing.. held
(C) honest.. found
(D) true.. acquired
(E) logical.. claimed


13 As the first streamlined car. the Airflow represented a ------- in automotive development, and although its sales were -------, it had an immense influence on automobile design.
(A)milestone.. disappointing
(B)breakthrough.. significant
(C)regression.. unimportant
(D)misjudgment..calculable
(E)revolution. tolerable

14 The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received----by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with----orders of experience.
(A) quietly.. significant
(B) enthusiastically.. shifting
(C) passively.. unusual
(D) sympathetically.. distinct
(E) contentiously.. realistic


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