机经全面透析丨GRE填空专题
1. The author affects _____ in the tone of his novels that is quite at odds with his predilection for invective in his nonfiction publications.
A. a tenacity
B. a neutrality
C. a pugnacity
D. an effusiveness
E. an irascibility
解析：B
逻辑关系提示词：at odds with，取反
填空对应：invective
词汇：
tenacity 固执
Neutrality 中立
Pugnacity 好战
Effusiveness 热情
Irascibility 易怒
2. We often regard natural phenomena like rainfall as mysterious and unpredictable; although for short time spans and particular places they appear so, in fact on a truly global scale, nature has been a model of _____.
A. reliability
B. diversity
C. complexity
D. plasticity
E. discontinuity
解析：A
逻辑关系提示词：although，取反
填空对应：mysterious and unpredictable
词汇：reliability 可靠
Diversity 多样性
Complexity 复杂
Plasticity 可塑性
Discontinuity 中断
3.Reviews written by music critic and composer Stephenson were hardly (i)_____ : musicians who performed his music could count on sympathetic coverage, while those who ignored him were held to (ii)_____ standards.
A. disinterested D. exacting
B. lucid E. minimal
C. conventional F. accepted
解析：AD
逻辑关系提示词：hardly，取反；“：”，取同；while，取反
填空对应：sympathetic - blank ii;
解释：冒号后句可以看出，对这个音乐家态度不同，得到的结果也不同，因此，可以得出这个音乐家的评论是不公正的，一空选出A。
词汇：disinterested 公正的
Lucid 明晰的
Conventional 传统的
Exacting 严格的
Minimal 最小的
Accepted 公认的
4.Earlier discussions with neighboring countries (i)_____ due to the government’s failure to alter policies that those countries find objectionable. Moreover, there is every reason to (ii)_____ the success of further talks, since the government if anything different, more intransigent.
A. commenced D. doubt
B. advanced E. undermine
C. foundered F. anticipate
解析：CD
逻辑关系提示词：due to，取同；moreover，取同
填空对应：failure - blank i - blank ii；
词汇：commence 开始
Advance 发展
Founder 失败
Doubt 怀疑
Undermine 削弱
Anticipate 预测
5.During the Harlem Renaissance, Alain Locke (i)_____ the first flourishing of a self-consciously racial art movement in America and was widely credited with providing the ph
ilosophical basis for its emergence. His importance as a critic of African America art and as an art theorist is (ii)_____ if controversial, yet he has received (iii)_____ attention for his unique insight into the broad forces that shaped American modernism and cultural nationalism in the visual arts.
A. forestalled D. undisputed 
G. undeserved
B. presided over E. misleading 
H. meticulous
C. seethed over F. questionable 
I. insufficient
解析：BDI
逻辑关系提示词：his，取同；if，取反；yet，取反
填空对应：importance - blank i；controversial - blank ii; importance - blank iii;
词汇：forestall 预先阻止
Preside over 主持
Seethed over 抑制住
Undisputed 无可置疑的
Misleading 误导的
Questionable 可疑的
Undeserved 不应得的
Meticulous 一丝不苟的
Insufficient 不足的
6.The perennial problem for critics of nineteenth-century novelist Charlotte Yonge is therelationship of her realism to her (i)_____. While admiring her complex psychological portraits and detailed descriptions of quotidian family life, readers since her own time have tended to fault her improbable manipulation of plot to teach a moral lesson. Indeed, many critics (ii)_____ her because of her willingness to (iii)_____.
A. pessimism D. dismiss 
G. squander suspense
B. didacticism E. applaud 
H. sacrifice credibility
C. eclecticism F. underestimate 
I. deflate pretension
解析：BDH
逻辑关系提示词：“.”取同
填空对应：blank i - teach a moral lesson; fault - blank ii; improbable - blank iii;
词汇：pessimism 悲观
Didacticism 说教
Eclecticism 折中主义
Dismiss 解散
modulateApplaud 赞同
Underestimate 低估
Squander suspense 浪费暂停
Sacrifice credibility 牺牲可信度
Deflate pretension 缩小自负
7.In its few decades of existence, the field of technology assessment has undergone large changes: its original high ambitions to predict consequences of technology have been _____ if not discarded.
A. deferred
B. subverted
C. abandoned
D. relinquished
E. tempered
F. modulated
解析:EF
逻辑关系提示词：change，取反
填空对应：high ambition
词汇：defer 推迟
Subvert 颠覆
Abandon - relinquish 放弃
Temper - modulate 调和
8.The critic claims that, contrary to its reputation for _____, the novelist’s prose is full of opaque language games.

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