GRE考试解题思维综述—第二章思维指导(8)
时间：2019-02-01 作者：英语课 分类：英文语法词汇
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下面是来自02年11月GRE国内笔试真题的一个SECTION的填空题，答案同样在末尾给出，请读者练习巩固上述思路和技巧：
1. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
A. exotic… belie
B. eccentric…deploy
C. traditional…exclude
D. imaginative…disguise
E 1. conventional… incorporate
2. Even though the folktales Partout collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of then were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizers of French folktales have never ____ them.
A. excluded
B. admired
C. collected
D. promoted
E. comprehended
3. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.
A. exaggerated
B. ignored
C. scrutinized
D. derided
E. increased
4. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of aspiration of popular television documentaries.
A. quenching… moderated
B. whetting… mushroomed
C. curtailing… waned
D. ignoring… transformed
E. slaking… increased
5. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
A. diverting
B. emotional
C. didactic
D. romantic
E. whimsical
6. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insects that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
A. reformers
B. discoveries
C. casualties
D. critics
E. beneficiaries
7. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great since her initial report has been based only on ____.
A. disseminate… supposition
B. withdraw… evidence
C. undercut… caprice
D. document… conjecture
E. downplay… facts
1. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
A. exotic… belie
B. eccentric…deploy
C. traditional…exclude
D. imaginative…disguise
E 1. conventional… incorporate
2. Even though the folktales Partout collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of then were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizers of French folktales have never ____ them.
A. excluded
B. admired
C. collected
D. promoted
E. comprehended
3. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.
A. exaggerated
B. ignored
C. scrutinized
D. derided
E. increased
4. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of aspiration of popular television documentaries.
A. quenching… moderated
B. whetting… mushroomed
C. curtailing… waned
D. ignoring… transformed
E. slaking… increased
5. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
A. diverting
B. emotional
C. didactic
D. romantic
E. whimsical
6. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insects that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
A. reformers
B. discoveries
C. casualties
D. critics
E. beneficiaries
7. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great since her initial report has been based only on ____.
A. disseminate… supposition
B. withdraw… evidence
C. undercut… caprice
D. document… conjecture
E. downplay… facts