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2015年3月15日GRE填空机经
Text Completion
1. The often-cited parallels between human communities and insect colonies are______:the cooperation found among social insects is essentially due to the insects' genetic ties, while humans often collaborate with non一relatives. A. superficial; B. obvious; C. hackneyed; D. contradictory; E. uncanny
2. While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite______，Lytton Starchey’s irreverent 1918 eassage about her ushered in a new era, making it acceptable, even fashionable, to criticize her. A .unsympathetic B .unsentimental; C .sycophantic; D .pedantic; E. censorious
3. While in their consideration of the unique way athletics and academics are combined in United States universities, Markovits and Rensmann do not (i)______Gumbrecht's idealizing vision of the compatibility of college athletics with the intellectual missions of institutions of higher learning, neither do they regard college athletics as (ii)_:they believe that big-time sports have a rightful place in university life.
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intentionally recapitulate entirely misconstrue venal profitable 4. In science education, it is important to differentiate between inaccurate ideas that are conceptually (i)____and understandings that are inaccurate, and yet can (ii)_____learning of more sophisticated understandings. The former are simply wrong, the latter can be seen as incomplete, overly simplistic, or tied to only a few limited contexts.
Blank(i) unproductive distinct unproblematic Blank(ii) foster resemble delay 5. He was never (i)____: he was nothing if not(ii)_______so he forbore for the present to declare his passion.
Blank (i) impetuous chivalrous thoughtful Blank(ii) boorish spontaneous circumspect 6. A transformative scientific idea that emerged in the eighteenth century was the realization that slow, inexorable geological processes follow the basic laws of physics and chemistry. This seems (i)_____conclusion in hindsight, but its implication—that geological processes in the distant past must have (ii)- these very same laws--was(iii)_geologists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Blank(i) a significant a controversial an obvious Sentence Equivalence
Blank(ii) followed entailed preceded Blank(iii) revolutionary for overlooked by evident to 13. Origin, distribution, and habitat are included in the book for some but not all of the plants; offering this information for each species would have given readers a clearer appreciation of the differences between_____and introduced species. A. endemic; B. native;
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C. seasonal; D. rare; E. unusual; F. dominant
14. In Inuit culture, elaborate carving has often been used to enhance______ objects, such as harpoon heads and other tools. A. utilitarian B. functional C. domestic D. decorative E. manufactured F. ornamental
15. Although in the mid-1970s nuclear power seemed poised for a still greater role in energy supply, in fact the ____of its prestige had already begun. A. evaluation B. waning C. defense D. undermining E. ebbing F. vindication
16. As a critic, Nelson is noteworthy for her ____;rather than presenting fully formed pronouncements, she is willing to let us watch as she works out her ideas. A. generosity B. humility C. integrity
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D. modesty E. eloquence F. rhetoric
17. The damage that trucks do to highways escalates dramatically with the weight borne per axle. New regulations increase the maximum permitted vehicle weight; these regulations will therefore allow onto the highway trucks capable of doing even more damage than those currently permitted.
The argument is open to criticism on the grounds that it:
A. Fails to establish that the level of damage done by trucks is a serious problem B. Omits evidence about one of the two relevant factors
C. Ignores the possibility that careful driving can lessen damage to highways D. Presumes that trucks are the only vehicles capable of causing substantial damage to highways
E. Presumes that something is bound to happen just because it is allowed to happen The relevance of the literary personality--a writer's distinctive attitudes, concerns, and artistic choices--to the analysis of a literary work is being scrutinized by various schools of contemporary criticism. Deconstructionists view the literary personality, like the writer's biographical personality, as irrelevant. The proper focus of literary analysis, they argue, is a work's intertextuality (interrelationship with other texts), subtexts (unspoken, concealed, or repressed discourses), and metatexts 9self-referential aspects), not a perception of a writer's verbal and aesthetic \New historicists also devalue the literary personality, since, in their emphasis on a work's historical contexts, they credit a writer with only those insights and ideas that were generally available when the writer lived. However, to readers interested in literary detective work--say scholars of classical (Greek and Roman) literature who wish to reconstruct damaged texts or deduce a work's authorship--the literary personality sometimes provides vital clues. 18. The passage is primarily concerned with
A. Discussing attitudes toward a particular focus for literary analysis
B. Describing the limitations of two contemporary approaches to literary analysis
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C. Pointing out the similarities among seemingly contrasting approaches to literary analysis
D. Defending the resurgence of a particular focus for literary analysis E. Defining a set of related terms employed in literary criticism 19. multi-choices questions
It can be inferred from the passage that on the issue of how to analyze a literary work, the new historicists would most likely agree with the deconstructionists that
A. The writer's insights and ideas should be understood in terms of the writer's historical context
B. The writer's literary personality has little or no relevance
C. The critic should primarily focus on intertextuality, subtexts, and metatexts 20. In the context in which it appears, \ A. Trust a writer with B. Applaud a writer for C. Believe a writer created D. Presume a writer had E. Accept a writer for
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