GRE填空解析4

1、  Since it is now ______ to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in ______ ways.
难点在plausible的理解上，看过北美范文的应该会把此次解释成“似是而非”。

柯林斯的解释：

An explanation or statement that is plausible seems likely to be true or valid.

这里用似是而非解释不通原句。只能当做看似可信的来解释。

(A) unprecedented...undiscovered
(B) difficult...related
(C) permitted...unique
(D) mandatory【强迫的】...congruent
(E) routine...similar

2、  The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of ______ for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to ______ its own continental coastline.

出售阿拉斯加对于Russia来说可不像对美国那样是个大成功，而是个______，因为后者那时候已经不能______大陆海岸线了。

(A) negligence...fortify

(B) custom...maintain

(C) convenience...stabilize

(D) expediency...defend 便宜之计，这个词多有GRE的味道啊
(E) exigency...reinforce

3、  Despite the ______ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize “pop culture” as a key for ______ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
一些学者强调，另一些学者当然就大概应该反对啊 忽视啊 之类的；可选AD，A的第二个空明显不对，搅和进当代社会的迷 希望和恐惧。应为D，解码。
(A) antipathy...entangling
(B) discernment...evaluating
(C) pedantry...reinstating
(D) skepticism...deciphering
(E) enthusiasm...symbolizing

4、  Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having ______ the conflicting elements of her life.
                                           呈现自己是                           和谐的                                      生命中冲突的元素
                                           【应该填入表示消除关系的单词，E，调和】
(A) affirmed
(B) highlighted
(C) identified
(D) confined
(E) reconciled


5、  Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their______.

最终也被那些人接受了，这些人不是是因为 *** 而著称的。 反应一个强对比，E轻信，那些不容易轻信的人也相信了。
【译】流言，粉饰着详尽的细节，散播多年，从未被证实确也从未被否认，终于他们被那些并不是那么容易轻信的人接受为了事实。
(A) insight
(B) obstinacy
(C) introspection
(D) tolerance
(E) credulity

6、  Broadway audiences have become inured to______ and so ______ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
百老汇的观众习惯于*** 如此**的被取悦，以至于他们的掌声如此的无意义，无法作为一个反应演出质量的indictator。
二空A 不情愿 B不倾向于 C不太可能 D愿意 E绝望；感觉应该是D，但是D的第一个空填进去非常突兀。答案为E，E的第二空 desperate此处的意思：近乎绝望的渴望。
柯林斯词典：

If you are desperate for something or desperate to do something, you want or need it very much indeed.
(A) sentimentality...reluctant
(B) condescension...disinclined
(C) histrionics...unlikely
(D) cleverness...eager
(E) mediocrity...desperate

7、  Although he attempted repeatedly to ______ her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained ______ in her judgment.
     【强转折】 该男子试图不断***                      她对于自己不忠诚的定罪             没成功                 她依然***
                              应填写 “改变”                                                                              应填 跟保持 相近的词
                            D  打消错误念头  强硬的
                            第一空排除AB，第二空排除CE
(A) remind...forceful
(B) convince...unfeigned
(C) exorcise...indulgent【放纵的】
(D) disabuse...adamant
(E) free...unsure