GRE考试真题试卷(1)

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GRE考试真题试卷（1）

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一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意）

1、Lee, who refrained from excesses in his personal life, differed markedly from Grant,

who________ notorious drinking bouts with his cronies.

A：deprecated

B：minimized

C：indulged in

D：shunned

E：compensated for

2、Left to endure a penniless old age, the________ man lived to regret his________

youth.

A：miserly ... friendless

B：reclusive ... affable

C：eccentric ... fleeting

D：egotistical ... frugal

E：improvident ... prodigal

3、Lexy's joy at finding the perfect Christmas gift for John was________ , for she still

had to find presents for the cousins and Uncle Bob.

A：transient

B：antithetical

C：exuberant

D：exhaustive

E：incontrovertible

4、Life is a________ of the sacred and the profane, of good and evil; to________ them

`is futile.

A：rejection ... embrace

B：commingling ... separate

C：misalliance ... endure

D：defamation ... reform

E：confusion ... promulgate

5、Like Machiavelli before him, Henry Kissinger has a keen appreciation for the hard-headed, even________ , use of power, to the point of admiring some traits in leaders

who were otherwise________ .

A：cynical ... benevolent

B：gentle ... insignificant

C：ruthless ... detestable

D：resentful ... charismatic

E：forceful ... exemplary

6、Like a balloon that is________ , aneurysms (swellings in the walls of arteries)

sometimes enlarge so much that they________ .

A：expanding ... contract

B：punctured ... dilate

C：elastic ... stratify

D：weightless ... stretch

E：overinflated ... burst

7、Like a martinet, Norman________ his subordinates to________ rigidly to the rules.

A：disciplined ... adapt

B：constrained ... adhere

C：coaxed ... refer

D：accustomed ... object

E：coerced ... demur

8、Like doctors exploring the mysteries concealed within the human body,

astronomers are finding that X rays offer an invaluable means for examining

otherwise________ structures.

A：inconsequential

B：hidden

C：ambivalent

D：diseased

E：ephemeral

9、Like foolish people who continue to live near an active volcano, many of us

are________ about the________ of atomic warfare and its attendant destruction.

A：worried ... possibility

B：unconcerned ... threat

C：excited ... power

D：cheered ... possession

E：irritated ... news

10、Like many other pioneers, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, founder of the New York

Infirmary, the first American hospital staffed entirely by women, faced ridicule from

her contemporaries but has received great honor________ .

A：posthumously

B：anonymously

C：privately

D：prematurely

11、Just as sloth is the mark of the idler,________ is the mark of the________ .

A：grief ... miser

B：obsequiousness ... toady

C：wanderlust ... trespasser

D：suspicion ... tyrant

E：brevity ... wit

12、Just as the earliest stone tools left by humans may seem nothing more than

rock fragments to a layperson, so a lot of fossils require a trained eye to________

them.

A：excavate

B：appreciate

C：disseminate

D：antedate

E：educate

13、Justice Harry Blackmun's retirement, while unlikely to bring about a drastic

change at the Supreme Court, will remove a distinctly________ voice from the Court's

often featureless mix.

A：bland

B：personal

C：moderate

D：neutral

E：derivative

14、Kepler's observations of the supernova would have been more________ and

valuable had they been made with a telescope; unfortunately, Kepler's supernova

lighted the night skies five full years before Galileo made the first________ telescopic

scan of the heavens.

A：remote ... skeptical

B：solemn ... unseemly

C：infamous ... extraneous

D：detailed ... documented

E：fortuitous ... recorded

15、Known for his commitment to numerous worthy causes, the philanthropist

deserved________ for his________ .

A：recognition ... folly

B：blame ... hypocrisy

C：reward ... modesty

D：admonishment ... wastefulness

E：credit ... altruism

16、Lamenting that something horrid had recently befallen the craft of biography,

biographer Arthur Schlesinger________ the glut of gossipy new lives on the market.

A：deplored

B：forgot

C：acclaimed

D：composed

E：abridged

17、Land is no less________ just because it has not yet been________ .

A：eroded ... subdivided

B：exhausted ... cultivated

C：imaginary ... discovered

D：fallow ... settled

E：real ... charted

18、Lavish in visual beauty, the film Lawrence of Arabia also boasts________ of style:

it knows how much can be shown in a shot, how much can be said in a few words.

A：extravagance

B：economy

C：autonomy

D：frivolity

E：arrogance

19、Learned though she was, her________ never degenerated into________ .

A：erudition ... pedantry

B：knowledge ... ignorance

C：scholarship ... research

D：speculation ... thought

E：education ... inquiry

20、Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes, Judge

Wapner was not at all the________ legal scholar.

A：considerate

B：pedantic

C：indecisive

D：competent

E：pragmatic

21、It is the task of the International Wildlife Preservation Commission to prevent

endangered species from becoming________ in order that future generations

may________ the great diversity of animal life.

A：tamed ... recollect

B：evolved ... value

C：extinct ... enjoy

D：specialized ... anticipate

E：widespread ... appreciate

22、It is wise to begin to treat a progressive disease while it is still in its________ stage.

A：climactic

B：clinical

C：incipient

D：terminal

E：pharmaceutical

23、It was only the first day of summer vacation, but his nerves were already________

by the constant clamor of the children.

A：eliminated

B：alleviated

C：replete

D：vacillated

E：frayed

24、It would be beneficial if someone so radical could be brought to believe that

old customs need not necessarily be________ and that change may possibly

be________ .

A：defensible ... premature

B：outdated ... required

C：evil ... salutary

D：invaluable ... temporary

E：worthless ... inadvisable

25、Janet Malcolm depicts the biographer as a nosy, intrusive figure,________ his

subject's private papers.

A：annotating

B：restoring

C：invading

D：acknowledging

E：compiling

26、John Gielgud crowns a distinguished career of playing Shakespearean roles by

giving a performance that is________ .

A：mediocre

B：outmoded

C：superficial

D：unsurpassable

E：insipid

27、John Keats, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Rimbaud-all these were poets who had to be

poets, whom no one or nothing short of death could have________ their courses.

A：confirmed in

B：derailed from

C：lauded for

D：interested in

E：convinced of

28、Just as all roads once led to Rome, all blood vessels in the human body

ultimately________ the heart.

A：detour around

B：shut off

C：empty into

D：look after

E：beat back

29、Just as an________ dish lacks flavor, an inane remark lacks________ .

A：intriguing ... spice

B：insipid ... sense

C：inedible ... listeners

D：occasional ... implications

E：offensive ... taste

30、Just as an orchestra cannot consist only of violins, a society cannot consist only

of managers, for society is an________ in which different parts have different________ .

A：anarchy ... powers

B：edifice ... complaints

C：organism ... functions

D：institution ... results

E：urbanity ... ambitions

31、Instead of taking exaggerated precautions against touching or tipping or jarring

the bottle of wine, the waitress handled it quite________ , being careful only to use a

napkin to keep her hands from the cool bottle itself.

A：fastidiously

B：reverently

C：nonchalantly

D：tentatively

E：ambivalently

32、Irony can, after a fashion, become a mode of escape: to laugh at the terrors of

life is in some sense to________ them.

A：overstate

B：revitalize

C：corroborate

D：evade

E：license

33、Isozaki's love for detail is apparent everywhere in the new museum, but

fortunately the details are________ to the building's larger formal composition, which

is________ by the busyness of much recent architecture.

A：important ... harmed

B：irrelevant ... fragmented

C：subordinated ... unencumbered

D：appropriate ... echoed

E：incidental ... nullified

34、It is________ to try to destroy pests completely with chemical poisons, for as each

new chemical pesticide is introduced, the insects gradually become________ to it.

A：useless ... drawn

B：pointless ... vulnerable

C：futile ... resistant

D：wicked ... indifferent

E：worthwhile ... immune

35、It is a relief to see people who can be interested in the arts without being "arty"

collectors who collect for their own________ rather than for________ .

A：enjoyment ... satisfaction

B：interest ... pleasure

C：reputation ... amusement

D：delight ... show

E：education ... fulfillment

36、It is a spotty sort of book, with many pages that, if not exactly________ , are less

than________ .

A：bland ... tedious

B：pretentious ... conventional

C：dull ... exciting

D：eventful ... newsworthy

E：murky ... obscure

37、It is all but impossible today to________ the ferocity with which Russian thinkers

at the turn of the century________ the materialism that had dominated their country's

intellectual life since the 1850s.

A：forget ... relished

B：believe ... conceded

C：grasp ... assailed

D：emulate ... ignored

E：challenge ... extolled

38、It is possible to analyze a literary work to death,________ `what should be a living

experience as if it were a laboratory specimen.

A：questioning

B：dissecting

C：amending

D：nurturing

E：reviving

39、It is remarkable that a man so in the public eye, so highly praised and imitated,

can retain his________ .

A：magniloquence

B：dogmas

C：bravado

D：idiosyncracies

E：humility

40、It is said that the custom of shaking hands originated when primitive men held

out empty hands to indicate that they had no________ weapons and were

thus________ disposed.

A：lethal ... clearly

B：concealed ... amicably

C：hidden ... harmfully

D：murderous ... ill

E：secret ... finally

41、In discussing Rothko's art, Breslin is________ in keeping to the facts and resisting

the________ of fanciful interpretation.

A：scrupulous ... temptation

B：meticulous ... integrity

C：ungainly ... reward

D：uninterested ... echo

E：inept ... bias

42、In giving a speech, the speaker's goal is to communicate ideas clearly

and________ , so that the audience will be in no________ about the meaning of the

speech.

A：effectively ... haste

B：indirectly ... distress

C：vigorously ... discomfort

D：unambiguously ... confusion

E：tactfully ... suspense

43、In his address, the superintendent exhorted the teachers to discover and________

each student's________ talents.

A：suppress ... unrecognized

B：develop ... intrinsic

C：redirect ... specious

D：belittle ... dormant

E：justify ... gratuitous

44、In judging the degree of his guilt, the question remains whether he acted out

of purely________ motives or whether he acted with thoughts of his own________ in

mind.

A：benevolent ... fame

B：disinterested ... advantage

C：selfish ... benefit

D：mercenary ... profit

E：malicious ... cleverness

45、In one instance illustrating Metternich's consuming________ , he employed

several naval captains to purchase books abroad for him, eventually adding an

entire Oriental library to his________ collection.

A：foresight ... indifferent

B：altruism ... eclectic

C：bibliomania ... burgeoning

D：avarice ... inadvertent

E：egocentricity ... magnanimous

46、In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the

dictionary; to him, reading was purposeful, not________ .

A：deliberate

B：retentive

C：critical

D：desultory

E：exhaustive

47、In the 1920s Hollywood became a magnet for men and women on the cutting

edge________ artists genuinely excited by the possibilities of the up-and-coming film

medium.

A：irritable

B：innovative

C：untalented

D：outdated

E：inferior

48、In the absence of native predators to stop their spread, imported deer________

to such an inordinate degree that they overgrazed the countryside and________ the

native vegetation.

A：thrived ... threatened

B：propagated ... cultivated

C：suffered ... abandoned

D：flourished ... scrutinized

E：dwindled ... eliminated

49、In the constant battle for newsstand supremacy, with newsstands groaning from

the weight of specialty publications, the biggest challenge facing any new magazine

is________ itself from the crowed, making its mission________ .

A：transforming ... plausible

B：separating ... impossible

C：distinguishing ... clear

D：acquiring ... public

E：distancing ... futile

50、In the light of Dickens's description of the lively, even________ dance parties of

his time ,Sharp's approach to country dancing may seem overly formal, suggesting

more________ than is necessary.

A：sophisticated ... expertise

B：rowdy ... decorum

C：prudish ... propriety

D：lewd ... ribaldry

E：enjoyable ... vitality

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