2018年GRE考试填空专项考题练习及答案(一) 

       The brain has become, for many people, _____ the biological machinations of the self, and the self-knowledge promised by neuroscience has ignited a hunger to understand how new findings weigh in on age-old questions.

　　A：tantamount to

　　B：synonymous with

　　C：implicated in

　　D：divorced from

　　E：detached from

　　F：subservient to

　　答案：AB

　　If you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as (i)_____. We are far too willing to (ii)_____ the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

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　　A：uncharacteristic D：countenance

　　B：systematic E：reject

　　C：arbitrary F：champion

　　答案：BE

　　Within the culture as a whole, the natural sciences have been so successful that the word “scientific” is often used in (i)_____ manner: it is often assumed that to call something “scientific” is to imply that its reliability has been (ii)_____ by methods whose results cannot reasonably be (iii)_____.

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　　A：an ironic D：maligned G：exaggerated

　　B：a literal E：challenged H：anticipated

　　C：an honorific F：established I：disputed

　　答案：CFI

　　The researcher found that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view that competence and warmth are (i)_____: when they perceive a person to be highly capable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be (ii)_____.

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　　A：equally important D：ambitious

　　B：mutually reinforcing E：unfeeling

　　C：inversely related F：disingenuous

　　答案：CE

　　The era’s examples of _____ that are cited by the author can be balanced in part by certain examples of dissent during the same period.

　　A：diversity

　　B：authoritarianism

　　C：forbearance

　　D：volatility

　　E：lucidity

　　答案：B

2018年GRE考试填空专项考题练习及答案(二)

       The automation of many of the functions performed at the factory, although initially inspiring_____ in many of the company’s employees, has had none of the deleterious effects forecast either within or beyond the organization.

　　A：indifference

　　B：optimism

　　C：ambition

　　D：arrogance

　　E：trepidation

　　答案：E

　　One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of _____: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.

　　A：hubris

　　B：propriety

　　C：bias

　　D：prescience

　　E：indolence

　　答案：A

　　Making the shift to the 90-nanometer manufacturing process has been (i) _____for semiconductor companies. This process effectively doubles the manufacturing capacity of the industry, but it (ii)_____ enormous technical challenges because some components of the new semiconductor chips are no more than five to seven molecules thick.

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　　A：an unanticipated boon D：circumvents

　　B：a routine accomplishment E：entails

　　C：a significant struggle F：resolves

　　答案：CE

　　There has been (i) _____elephant’s fabled mental capacities until recently, when these behavioral observations have begun to be (ii) _____by brain science. MRI scans of an elephant’s brain suggest that even relative to its overall size it has a large hippocampus, the component in the mammalian brain linked to memory and an important part of its limbic system, which is involved in processing emotions.

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　　A：surprising credence given to D：buttressed

　　B：a widespread dismissal of E：anticipated

　　C：only anecdotal evidence for F：overwhelmed

　　答案：CD

　　The description of Green’s scholarship as (i)_____ is grossly misleading: while her research on interstellar particles is not especially novel, the conclusions she draws from her data are (ii)_____

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　　A：esoteric D：remarkably pioneering

　　B：tendentious E：dubiously supported

　　C：derivative F：strangely comforting

　　答案：CD

2018年GRE考试填空专项考题练习及答案(三)

When pulsars were first discovered, some of the astrophysicists involved briefly (i)_____ these types of stars might be (ii)______extraterrestrial intelligence. Specifically, the pulsar’s periodic radiation pattern was initially interpreted as (iii)______ rather than—as it turned out to be—the natural product of the spinning of a neutron star.

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　　A：ignored whether D：suggestive of G：a deliberate hoax

　　B：thought that E：unrelated to H：an episodic phenomenon

　　C：disavowed that F：evidence against I：a constructed code

　　答案：BDI

　　There has been great enthusiasm in the United States for reducing fossil fuel dependence by increasing production of biofuels from crops such as corn and switchgrass, but this (i)_____ about biofuel’s potential should be (ii)_____ by a realistic appraisal of the costs and challenges of biofuel production.

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　　A：forbearance D：tempered

　　B：exuberance E：delineated

　　C：obduracy F：exacerbated

　　答案：BD

　　Until now,old snapshots and home movies faded and crumbled and were eventually (i)_____.Only a few precious mementos were preserved and passed along. But as photography moves into the digital realm, family albums and home videos seem capable of (ii)_____: our capacity to store them is, for all practical purposes, approaching the infinite. Is such a transformation a good thing? The natural world teaches us that (iii)_____ are vital to ecological health. Does a similar principle apply to communal memory?

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　　A：archived D：transmission G：death and decay

　　B：discarded E： immortality H： predator and prey

　　C：reproduced F：revolution I：reproduction and renewal

　　答案：BEG

　　The threat of litigation makes the art authentication industry _____ realm: connoisseurs refuse to communicate in writing and confidential agreements bind authenticators to silence.

　　A：an opportunistic

　　B：a clandestine

　　C：a moralizing

　　D：a xenophobic

　　E：an anarchistic

　　答案：B

　　Recent research runs counter to the long-cherished notion that a small drop in body temperature during and after surgery is either _____ or actually protects the patient by slowing metabolism and reducing the body’s demand for blood and oxygen.

　　A：beneficial

　　B：immaterial

　　C：inconsequential

　　D：preventive

　　E：prophylactic

　　F：redundant

　　答案：BC

2018年GRE考试填空专项考题练习及答案(四)

　The inconspicuous location and lack of striking vistas that characterize the villa reflect the_____ aspect of its creator’s personality.

　　A：volatile

　　B：grandiose

　　C：gregarious

　　D：self-effacing

　　E：imperious

　　答案：D

　　The chairman, faced with the need to forge a consensus on a number of proposals,acknowledged that it would be difficult to reconcile the push for a radical overhaul with the stance of those who want _____change.

　　A：deliberate

　　B：indiscriminate

　　C：genuine

　　D：immediate

　　E：wholesale

　　答案：A

　　Recently released statistics on the prevalence of heart disease in the United States, while (i)_____ , nevertheless reflect a decline from heights reached in the 1960s, before health officials began publicly (ii)_____ people to guard against heart disease.

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　　A：definite D：entreating

　　B：sobering E：defying

　　C：implausible F：absolving

　　答案：BD

　　The humor in this play derives from its (i)_____ . The new production, however, inexplicably goes in the opposite direction; it is so (ii)_____ that the audience does not even seem to realize that the play is supposed to be a comedy.

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　　A：verbal nimbleness D：accessible

　　B：political allusions E：plodding

　　C：deadpan dialogue F：implausible

　　答案：AE

　　To say the actors were (i)_____ their director is an understatement: a director who is visibly bored by his cast and their performances is hard to (ii)_____ .

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　　A：disappointed in D：lambast

　　B：accepting of E：displease

　　C：motivated by F：suffer

　　答案：BF